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150,000 civilian spotters take part; 600 aircraft 'battle' over 21 states
Sen Taft scores Truman condemnation of union leaders
cartoon on Western Allied differences
ICC, PUC and other investigators query Fitzsimmons, Perth Amboy Hosp; Fitzsimmons says he was going 25 mph and saw no yellow warning light as he neared trestle; says he had speed orders with him; probes fail to show any mech defects in Broker; seek to find exact point of derailment; Van Tine declines to give his statements from rr employes and officials to hearing; Patterson comments
1951Mike Leavitt, American politician, 14th Governor of Utah[†]
Michael Okerlund Leavitt is an American politician who served as the 20th United States secretary of health and human services from 2005 to 2009 and the 10th administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 2003 to 2005. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 14th governor of Utah from 1993 to 2003.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]