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As the result of an assignment of contract, an apartment house for fifty-four families will be erected at the northeast corner of Riverside Drive and West Seventy-ninth Street by Rosen Rosen, contractors and builders, ...
Industry will have more voice in the conduct of war affairs under plans now being discussed with Government officials. According to these proposals, greater responsibilities would be placed upon industry for the solution of rearmament production problems.
Allied planes called in to help Brit isolated on hill 8 mi SW of Waegwan accidently strafe and bomb Brit forces; 60 casualties reptd; AP photographer witnesses incident; helps carry wounded
BETHLEHEM, Pa., Sept. 23-- Lehigh opened its sixty-sixth football season today with a 21-0 victory over Delaware. The Engineers scored twice in the second quarter and again in the final period before 6,000 fans.
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1950Mohinder Amarnath, Indian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster[†]
Mohinder Amarnath Bhardwaj is a former Indian cricketer and cricket analyst. He is the son of Lala Amarnath, the first post-independence captain of India. Mohinder was the vice captain of the Indian team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup, where he was the player of the final. He was also a part of the Indian squad which won the 1985 World Championship of Cricket.
1950John Kessel, American author, poet, and playwright[†]
John Joseph Vincent Kessel is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. He is a prolific short story writer, and the author of four solo novels, Good News From Outer Space (1989), Corrupting Dr. Nice (1997), The Moon and the Other (2017), and Pride and Prometheus (2018), and one novel, Freedom Beach (1985) in collaboration with his friend James Patrick Kelly. Kessel is married to author Therese Anne Fowler.
1950Harriet Walter, English actress[†]
Dame Harriet Mary Walter is an English actress. She has received an Olivier Award and nominations for a Tony Award, five Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2011, Walter was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to drama.
1950Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (born 1863)[†]
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, then Princess Louis of Battenberg, later Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, was the eldest daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom.
1950The eastern United States is covered by a thick haze from the Chinchaga fire in western Canada.[†]
The Chinchaga fire, also known as the Wisp fire, Chinchaga River fire and Fire 19, was a forest fire that burned in northern British Columbia and Alberta in the summer and early fall of 1950. With a final size of between 1,400,000 and 1,700,000 hectares, it is the single largest recorded fire in North American history. The authorities allowed the fire to burn freely, following local forest management policy considering the lack of settlements in the region. The Chinchaga fire produced large amounts of smoke, creating the "1950 Great Smoke Pall", observed across eastern North America and Europe. As the existence of the massive fire was not well-publicized, and the smoke was mostly in the upper atmosphere and could not be smelled, there was much speculation about the atmospheric haze and its provenance. The Chinchaga firestorm's "historic smoke pall" caused "observations of blue suns and moons in the United States and Europe". It was the biggest firestorm documented in North America, and created the world's largest smoke layer in the atmosphere.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]