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TOKYO, Saturday, March 31-- The Chinese Communists hurled counter-attacks yesterday at United Nations troops in the vicinity of the Thirty-eighth Parallel and massed strong concentrations just north of the old boundary between North and South Korea.
Resigns as special asst to ODM (Mobilization) Dir Wilson; returns to Continental Can Co post; Wilson, Clay, other comment
Dewey signs bill upon recommendation of McGovern and State Budget Dir; calls it stop-gap solution and asks tax be raised only 1/2%; reaction to Impellitteri and Hoving repts
Dewey moves to get $250,000 for comm 1st yr operations
US pacts with Commonwealth members blocked by imperial preferences
1951Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.[†]
Remington Rand, Inc. was an early American business machine manufacturer, originally a typewriter manufacturer and in a later incarnation the manufacturer of the UNIVAC line of mainframe computers. Formed in 1927 following a merger, Remington Rand was a diversified conglomerate making other office equipment, electric shavers, etc. The Remington Rand Building at 315 Park Avenue South in New York City is a 20-floor skyscraper completed in 1911. After 1955, Remington Rand had a long series of mergers and acquisitions that eventually resulted in the formation of Unisys.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]