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August 14, 1950

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Headlines from August 14, 1950

AVIATION TERMINAL TO COST $4,000,000 SET FOR FIRST AVE.; Triborough Authority Reaches Accord With Major Airlines --City Approval Needed PARKING GARAGE INCLUDED New Facility Between 37th and 38th Streets Slated to Be Ready Late in 1951

By Joseph C. Ingraham

After four years of negotiations the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority and the major airlines have reached an agreement for construction of a "very simple" terminal and a 558-car parking garage on the west side of First Avenue between Thirty-seventh ...

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Army Ignored the Air Force In Warning on Pohang Field; AIR FORCE WARNING AT POHANG IGNORED

By W.h. Lawrence Special To the New York Times

US Air Force abandoned Pohang fighter base before it came under N Korean fire; evacuation described; made on information of N Korean advance from south; 8th Army ignored Air Force warnings on peril to base

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CONGRESS LEANING TOWARD RED CURBS; Representative Martin Terms Truman Proposals Weak, Calls for Mundt Bill

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Repr J W Martin Jr urges Mundt-Ferguson Nixon bill passage; calls Truman proposals inadequate

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City Painting More Traffic Lines To Add Capacity, Cut Accidents; TRAFFIC MARKING EXTENDED BY CITY

By Unknown Author

Traffic Dept outlines pavement marking program

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TRUMAN IS BLAMED; He and Roosevelt Were Blind to Soviet Aims, 4 Senators Declare U.S. 'LOST INITIATIVE' IN '45 Fall of East Europe and China, Korea 'Grab' Resulted, Says Foreign Relations Group

By William S. White Special To the New York Times

Repubs on US Sen Foreign Relations Com blame Pres Truman and late F D Roosevelt for subjugation of bloc by USSR

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Notable Births

1950Gary Larson, American cartoonist^[†]

Gary Larson is an American cartoonist who created The Far Side, a single-panel cartoon series that was syndicated internationally to more than 1,900 newspapers for fifteen years. The series ended on January 1, 1995, though since 2020 Larson has published additional comics online. His twenty-three books of collected cartoons have combined sales of more than forty-five million copies.

Historical Context for August 14, 1950

In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people^[†]