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WITH THE UNITED STATES FORCES, in Korea, July 9--A line of stout Americans halted North Korean Communist advances on the ground today while the Allies pounded the Reds from the air.
Dewey calls Cabinet emergency meeting on defense in view of Korean crisis
2d Infantry Div at Fort Lewis, Wash, and combat units of 2d, 3d, 4th and 6th Army Areas alerted for transfer to Korea; Air Fleet Marine Force comdr Maj Gen F Harris returns to Calif base after overseas conf with Navy and Marine officials; 1st Marine Div prepares for departure to Korea; heavy tanks arrive, Calif
Employment Security Bur repts rise in number of 'tight' supply areas, drop in distressed areas, May; job rise in 89 major areas, some occupational shortages
21 killed, 8 hurt in crash, Casablanca, on Paris-Dakar flight
1950Tony Baldry, English colonel, lawyer, and politician, British Minister of State for Agriculture[†]
Sir Antony Brian Baldry, is a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Banbury from 1983 to 2015.
1950Prokopis Pavlopoulos, President of Greece, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister for the Interior[†]
Prokopios "Prokopis" Pavlopoulos is a Greek retired politician, who served as the president of Greece from 2015 to 2020. A member of New Democracy, he previously was Minister of the Interior from 2004 to 2009. He was succeeded by Katerina Sakellaropoulou on 13 March 2020, who became the first woman to serve as President of Greece.
1950Richard Maury, American-Argentinian engineer (born 1882)[†]
Richard Fontaine Maury was an American railway engineer and naturalized Argentine. He became known for the project of the Argentine "Ramal C-14" of the Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano and the touristic Tren a las Nubes.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]