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Comr Carney to ask Mayor O'Dwyer to ???re meteorologist for future rain-making project, ??? Dr Langmuir backs project; conf; discusses techniques; legal obstacles cited
NYC workers begin food drive for striking coal miners
Exec Bd expels Mine-Mill, UOPWA, and Food-Tobacco unions for following Communist party policy; P Murray says exec bd will form union in metal mining indus
Communists reptdly agree on USSR control of 7 Yellow Sea ports in case of war, secret codicil to Sino-Soviet pact
Amb Allen presentation of credentials to Marshal Tito illus
1950Peter Hain, Welsh politician, Secretary of State for Wales[†]
Peter Gerald Hain, Baron Hain,, is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2005 to 2007, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2007 to 2008 and twice as Secretary of State for Wales from 2002 to 2008 and from 2009 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Neath between 1991 and 2015.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]