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price cut for US buyers; raised for others; Singapore metal exch to open
Ningsia resistance seen ended as Communists claim capital city and virtually all towns on Yellow River E bank; forces under Gen Ma Hung-kwei reptdly surrender; Hami garrison reptdly goes over to Communists; Gen Fu Tso-yi linked to Suiyuan Prov takeover; Communists reptdly occupy Suchow; 3 Communist armies launch drive on Kwangtung Prov, capture Namyung; Govt reptdly recaptures Chihing; map
Reid rept and lr to O'Dwyer defends service since Jan, '46; cites conversion of $30,607,000 deficit into surplus; opposes P Windels plan; scores '40 unification financing in which N Morris claimed role; urges legis for financing 2d Av trunk line outside const debt limit; rept seen sharpening transit as campaign issue
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 25 -- Steel and coal contract negotiations will be resumed this week on a far-flung front amid general belief that they are entering the crucial week. The talks affect more than 1,000,000 workers in the nation's heavy industries.
to vie with USSR bloc
1949Clodoaldo, Brazilian footballer and manager[†]
Clodoaldo Tavares de Santana, better known as Clodoaldo, is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
1949Wendy Saddington, Australian singer and journalist (died 2013)[†]
Wendy June Saddington, also known as Gandharvika Dasi, was an Australian blues, soul and jazz singer, and was in the bands Chain, Copperwine and the Wendy Saddington Band. She wrote for teen pop newspaper Go-Set from September 1969 to September 1970 as an agony aunt in her weekly "Takes Care of Business" column, and as a feature writer. Saddington had Top 30 chart success with her 1972 solo single "Looking Through a Window", which was written and produced by Billy Thorpe and Warren Morgan of the Aztecs. After adopting Krishna Consciousness in the 1970s she took the name Gandharvika Dasi. In March 2013 she was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer and died in June, aged 63.
1949Jane Smiley, American novelist[†]
Jane Smiley is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991).
1949Minette Walters, English journalist and author[†]
Minette Caroline Mary Walters DL is an English writer.