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Lt J X Burns resigns after receiving order to appear before grand jury
USSR turns back police sent to reoccupy Communist-held PO, Wiener Neustadt
many reptd war crimes not yet checked
int on gambling and wire to Dewey, NYC
Armstrong Siddeley Motors signs 7-yr pact with Wright Aeronautical (US) for exch of latest devices; to get Curtiss trans-sonic propellers; Sir F Sprigg sees output and development speeded
1950David Brin, American physicist and author[†]
Glen David Brin is an American science fiction author. He has won the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and Nebula Awards. His novel The Postman was adapted into a 1997 feature film starring Kevin Costner.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]