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Formation approved by Assembly; tasks cited; comm to be composed of reprs of Bolivia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Panama and PI; $2-million fund approved
ignoring a flood of favorable announcements of earnings and dividends, the stock market last week drifted lower in dull trading. Traders were more concerned with the outcome of Congressional action on European aid and inflation controls than they were with the immediate good corporate news.
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1947Sergio Badilla Castillo, Chilean-Swedish poet and translator[â ]
Sergio Badilla Castillo is a Chilean poet who is the founder of poetic transrealism in contemporary poetry. He is considered the Latin American poet with the broadest Nordic influence, from the Finnish poets, Edith Södergran, Elmer Diktonius, Paavo Haavikko, Pentti Saarikoski and the Swedes Gunnar Ekelöf, Tomas Tranströmer and Lars Gustafsson.
1947David Mamet, American playwright, screenwriter, and director[â ]
David Alan Mamet is an American playwright, author, and filmmaker.
1947Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the State of Israel and the 1948 ArabâIsraeli War.[â ]
The 1947â1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine was the first phase of the 1948 Palestine war. It broke out after the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution on 29 November 1947 recommending the adoption of the Partition Plan for Palestine.