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Dewey and Repub legis leaders drop plan to tap tax stabilization reserve, conf; plan more than $50 million cut
hearing; US Steel pres B F Fairless testifies; blames union pensions for 'modest' price rise; with E M Voorhees rejects proposal to cut divds to meet costs rise; Fairless illus
loudspeaker installed, Times Sq; illus
Repr Lodge offers resolution asking probe of US policy
1950Gloria Naylor, American novelist (died 2016)[†]
Gloria Naylor was an American novelist, known for novels including The Women of Brewster Place (1982), Linden Hills (1985) and Mama Day (1988).
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]