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Sens Maybank, O'Mahoney. Ives and Capehart urge mandatory price-wage controls after Ford-GM refusal to rescind price rices
United States Marines and infantrymen who had been trapped along the Changjin Reservoir reached the safety of Hamhung and Hungnam after a fierce, thirteen-day battle.
WITH U.S. MARINES, Korea, Dec. 10--United States Marines walked out of almost a fortnight of freezing hell today, full of fight after a nightmare of death in Korea's icy mountains.
1st US expedition to Mt Everest, headed by O R Houston, climbs 18,000 ft up unexplored south face
Madrid correspondent S P Brewer attacked by Falange press for rept on Spanish demand for Gibraltar
1950Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and author (born 1893)[†]
Leslie John Comrie FRS was an astronomer and a pioneer in mechanical computation.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]