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Sen C Gurney to offer bill for Govt retention of key plants and equipment; Sen Armed Services Com meets; Munitions Bd outlines plants use and disposal
Repr B F Jensen comment on House subcom hearings on TVA appropriation request for steam plant, New Johnsonville, Tenn; other reaction
About 1,500 families of US fliers in Eur to return home
Unbeaten New York University recorded its ninth straight victory and sixth in the Metropolitan Collegiate Baseball Conference yesterday when it downed Fordham, 6 -- 3, at Ohio Field. The Rams lost for the second time in four league starts.
Big business is reducing prices for competitive reasons and because supply is catching up with demand in a variety of standard products. But instead of reducing demand, lower prices for steel and electric motors will immediately activate production projects held back to await the arrival of lower prices, industrial executives here declared yesterday.
1948Mike Selvey, English cricketer and sportscaster[†]
Michael Walter William Selvey is an English former Test and county cricketer, and now a cricket writer and commentator.
1948Yu Shyi-kun, Taiwanese politician, 39th Premier of the Republic of China[†]
You Si-kun, also romanized Yu Shyi-kun, is a Taiwanese politician. He was one of the founding members of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), and is known to be a strong advocate of Taiwan independence. He led the DPP as chairman from 2006 to 2007 and served as Premier from 2002 to 2005.