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With textile orders indicating that lessened consumer demand has been felt at the mill level, New England cotton goods manufacturers last week curtailed their output by about 20 per cent. Fine goods mills, taking a cue from Southern producers who went on a shorter work week, reduced their operations to four days.
Noble Hero wins Choice Stakes; attendance and betting marks set
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 -- The Republican-controlled Congress passed and sent to President Truman today a measure providing Federal loan aid to stimulate private construction of small homes and large apartment houses but omitting public housing and slum clearance.
TO New Yorkers, who generally have as many musical comedies as straight plays to choose from, musicals may be as much of a fixture as the billion-dollar city budget. But to millions of hinterlanders, even in some large cities, they're nearly as rare as cyclotrons. And with increasing production and traveling costs, getting rarer.
US withdraws draft; accepts USSR plan as basis for discussion in tactical move after adoption of Yugoslav motion on procedure; illus
1948Svetlana Savitskaya, Russian engineer and astronaut[†]
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya is a Russian former aviator and Soviet cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space. On her 1984 Soyuz T-12 mission she became the first woman to fly to space twice, and the first woman to perform a spacewalk.
1948Margaret Urban Walker, American philosopher[†]
Margaret Urban Walker is an American philosopher and the Donald J. Schuenke Chair Emerita in Philosophy at Marquette University. Before her appointment at Marquette, she was the Lincoln Professor of Ethics at Arizona State University, and before that she was at Fordham University. She has also previously held visiting appointments at Washington University in St. Louis, University of South Florida, and Catholic University of Leuven.
1948Wincey Willis, British broadcaster (died 2024)[†]
Wincey Willis was a British television and radio broadcaster who achieved national fame in the 1980s. She was perhaps best known for being part of the line up at TV-am, the UK's first national operator of a commercial breakfast television franchise, in which she was ITV's first female weather presenter, appearing on Good Morning Britain. She was also known for her adjudicator role in the popular television game show Treasure Hunt.