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September 16, 1947

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MANY MARKETS UP; Report Puts Food Cost Advance Here at 40% Since Jan. 1, 1946 CITY WORKERS SEEK RISE O'Dwyer to Name Committees to Promote Use of Fish and Cut Bread Consumption Two Meatless Days Urged by Mayor

By Charles Grutzner

Mayor's com investigating food prices estimates additional appropriations required for current fiscal yr to meet rising operation costs

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$17,000,000 Pier Plan Offered For Hoboken by Port Authority; $17,000,000 PIERS OFFERED HOBOKEN NEW $17,000,000 IMPROVEMENT PROPOSED FOR THE HOBOKEN WATERFRONT

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

HOBOKEN: NY Port Authority offers $17 million rehabilitation plan on profit-sharing basis; to submit plan to Maritime Comm; project illus

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SHOWDOWN LIKELY; Marshall to Lead Drive to Circumvent Soviet Obstructionism ARTICLE 51 MAY BE ISSUE Special Border Commission for Balkans to Be Proposed -- Veto Garbs Considered U.S. Weighs U.N. Defense Pact; May Offer Program to Assembly

By Thomas J. Hamiltonspecial To the New York Times

leading agenda items noted; Marshall to lead drive against USSR obstructionism; situation analyzed

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TITO FORCES 'JUMP' TREATY TIMETABLE IN TRIESTE REGION; U.S. and British Troops Moved Back Ahead of Schedule to Avoid Difficulties CROWDS IN CITY \SH At Gorizia, Now Italian, Allies and Yugoslavs Make Contact--Five Pacts Take Effect Tito Forces 'Jump' Trieste Schedule

By Camille M. Cianfarraspecial To the New York Times

Yugoslav troops come up to new boundary ahead of schedule; US and Brit troops start withdrawal; Ital troops ready to take over boundary watch on their side

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5 NEW ATOMS SPLIT; USELESS FOR BOMBS; Lead, Bismuth Among Them, but World Is Assured None Can Give Chain Reaction 5 NEW ATOMS SPLIT, USELESS FOR BOMBS

By William L. Laurence

Prof Seaborg repts atoms of 5 more elements split in Calif Univ cyclotron, says these cannot support chain reaction; describes high-voltage splintering, or 'spallation,' of common elements; sees creation of matter from energy

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Notable Births

1947Dusty Hughes, English director and playwright^[†]

Dusty Hughes is an English playwright, director and television screenwriter. In the early 1970s he was Theatre Editor of Time Out and helped to establish that magazine’s theatre coverage as an alternative voice. He then joined the Bush Theatre as Artistic Director and helped develop it as a venue for new writing and directed new plays by Snoo Wilson, Kurt Vonnegut, Howard Barker, Ron Hutchinson and Ken Campbell.