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US 24th Div gen describes battle for Chinju; says Communists 'beat hell out of us'; US loses one of best airfields; 3 Sherman tanks useless for lack of proper fanbelts
G Meany notes rise of 9% since Korean war start, 13.3% in yr
House com clears Adm's '50 Econ Mobilization Bill to floor; allows room for broad price and rationing controls by authorizing full debate on Kunkel substitute containing B M Baruch's plan and on Deane measure adding price controls with rollback to June levels; Spence scores Kunkel bill and seeks amendment to Adm's bill; Speaker Rayburn says Truman would not veto full controls bill; Sen com clears Adm bill after conf with NSRB and Commerce Dept on Baruch plan; makes 2 major changes; 1 calls for 10-man 'watchdog' com; Sparkman presses for full controls; Taft again scores controls
US reinforcements identified as 2d Infantry Div troops, 1st direct from US, arrive, Pusan
1950Roy Williams, American basketball player and coach[†]
Roy Allen Williams is an American retired college basketball coach who served as the men's head coach for the North Carolina Tar Heels for 18 seasons and the Kansas Jayhawks for 15 seasons. He was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006 and the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007.
1950Guam is organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States as the President Harry S. Truman signs the Guam Organic Act.[†]
Guam is an island that is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean. Guam's capital is Hagåtña, and the most populous village is Dededo. It is the westernmost point and territory of the United States, as measured from the geographic center of the U.S. In Oceania, Guam is the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands and the largest island in Micronesia. In 2022, its population was 168,801. Chamorros are its largest ethnic group, but a minority on the multiethnic island. The territory spans 210 square miles and has a population density of 775 per square mile (299/km2).
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]