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April 18, 1949

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Headlines from April 18, 1949

King George's Greeting

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

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CITY RELIEF CASES UP 6,441 IN MARCH; Largest Rise in 11 Years Laid by Hilliard to Joblessness -- Costs Increase $558,713 CITY RELIEF CASES UP 6,441 IN MARCH

By Paul Crowell

Comr Hilliard repts aid rolls rose record 6,441, Mar; repts nearly $12 million paid; puts average grant per case at $80.30 a mo

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Drop in Coal Price and Sales Looms as a Brake on Lewis; DROP IN COAL PRICE A BARRIER TO LEWIS

By A. H. Raskinspecial To the New York Times

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- With all the painstaking care of generals mapping a military campaign, coal operators are drafting the strategy they will attempt to carry out in their annual set-to with John L. Lewis this spring.

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EASTER SPECTACLE IS CITY'S GREATEST; 1,500,000 ON PARADE; Throng Packing Fifth Avenue Mingles Piety and Levity -- 30,000 at St. Patrick's SUN SHINES ON NEW FINERY Trumans, in Capital, Attend Two Services -- Jerusalem, Rome Greet Pilgrims EASTER SPECTACLE IS CITY'S GREATEST

By Richard H. Parke

throngs described; illus

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Substance Feeding Cancer Traced by Research Team; GROWTH ELEMENT AIDS CANCER CELLS

By William L. Laurencespecial To the New York Times

Dr G W Kidder and assocs rept guanazolo bars growth by mimicking guanine, mfd by normal cell but taken from diet by tumor cell; warn tests are inconclusive

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1949The Republic of Ireland Act comes into force, declaring Éire to be a republic and severing Ireland's "association" with the Commonwealth of Nations.^[†]

The Republic of Ireland Act 1948 is an Act of the Oireachtas which declares that the description of Ireland is the Republic of Ireland, and vests in the president of Ireland the power to exercise the executive authority of the state in its external relations, on the advice of the Government of Ireland. The Act was signed into law on 21 December 1948 and came into force on 18 April 1949, Easter Monday, the 33rd anniversary of the beginning of the Easter Rising.

Headlines from April 18, 1949

King George's Greeting

CITY RELIEF CASES UP 6,441 IN MARCH; Largest Rise in 11 Years Laid by Hilliard to Joblessness -- Costs Increase $558,713 CITY RELIEF CASES UP 6,441 IN MARCH

Drop in Coal Price and Sales Looms as a Brake on Lewis; DROP IN COAL PRICE A BARRIER TO LEWIS

EASTER SPECTACLE IS CITY'S GREATEST; 1,500,000 ON PARADE; Throng Packing Fifth Avenue Mingles Piety and Levity -- 30,000 at St. Patrick's SUN SHINES ON NEW FINERY Trumans, in Capital, Attend Two Services -- Jerusalem, Rome Greet Pilgrims EASTER SPECTACLE IS CITY'S GREATEST

Substance Feeding Cancer Traced by Research Team; GROWTH ELEMENT AIDS CANCER CELLS

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