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Staging one of the most bullish demonstrations of the year, stock prices last week rocketed to new high levels. The upsurge was accompanied by numerous favorable news developments and predictions for the coming year. At the same time a flood of year-end dividends joined the cheerful parade of improved business statistics.
Residents of the metropolitan area will have more packages under their trees next Sunday than they had a year ago. Sales in department stores and United Parcel Service deliveries combine to show that 5 to 10 per cent more gifts than last year will be purchased by Christmas Eve.
water levels rept; 'holiday' cuts 176-million gal from wk's daily average; new holidays weighed; NYS Water Power & Control Comm bars plan to operate 5 Queens wells; Carney appeals to Gov Dewey
on utilities attempts to get pub aid in fight against alleged Govt competition; ss by C A Altenbern and E L Lindseth noted
1949David A. Johnston, American volcanologist and geologist (died 1980)[†]
David Alexander Johnston was an American United States Geological Survey (USGS) volcanologist who was killed by the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in the U.S. state of Washington. A principal scientist on the USGS monitoring team, Johnston was killed in the eruption while manning an observation post six miles (10 km) away on the morning of May 18, 1980. He was the first to report the eruption, transmitting "Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!" before he was swept away by a lateral blast; despite a thorough search, Johnston's body was never found, but state highway workers discovered remnants of his USGS trailer in 1993.