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Sen Johnson urges US rev development program; sees USSR ahead
Sup Ct refusal to rev NMU Gt Lakes hiring hall case in effect upholds ban on hiring hall as violation of Taft-Hartley Law on closed shop
he comments; says he will not resign; illus
chiefs confident on US Pacific fleet ability to cope with USSR submarines; Sherman says 1/3 of USSR active submarines are in Pacific; says MacArthur gets more control over naval forces in his command; Bradley sees troop morale high; warns on housing shortage threat to morale; Johnson comments
1950Roger Fisher, American guitarist and songwriter[†]
Roger Fisher is an American guitarist primarily known as one of the founding members of the band Heart. His tenure lasted from 1967 until 1980. In 2013 Fisher was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Heart.
1950Karl Guthe Jansky, American physicist and engineer (born 1905)[†]
Karl Guthe Jansky was an American physicist and radio engineer who in April 1933 first announced his discovery of radio waves emanating from the Milky Way in the constellation Sagittarius. An amateur astronomer, he is considered one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]