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House com votes special 10% tax on gross business of bookmakers and policy operators and annual $50 'occupational tax' for handbook and lottery operators; penalties set
Sen passes, 52-32, $190-million loan; ECA appropriations to be used; all or part to be repaid in strategic materials; debate; Mundt and Saltonstall proposals adopted; Humphrey amendment for ECA payment of shipping costs for private aid passed; Agr Dept authorizes exports
wholesale prices rise 12¢-a-lb avg as big packers and wholesalers sell 'fabricated' cuts at higher ceilings; restauranteurs cite individual rises and threat to business; rept strong consumer resistance; small butchers caught with no way to pass on increases
enemy forces withdraw SW of Inje; pour into Choyang River bridgehead E of Chunchon; skirmish NE of Seoul; active N of Uijongbu; attacked, Chunchon; S Korean (SK) troops disperse enemy platoon below Munsan
OPS expected to order new cuts in home appliances output because of defense needs
1951Simon Hughes, English lawyer and politician[†]
Sir Simon Henry Ward Hughes is a British former politician. He is now the Chancellor of London South Bank University, and a strategic adviser to Talgo, a Spanish manufacturer of trains. Hughes was deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2010 to 2014, and from 2013 until 2015 was Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Bermondsey and Old Southwark from 1983 until 2015. He declined a position in the House of Lords in 2015.
1951William Birdwood, Anglo-Indian field marshal (born 1865)[†]
Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood was a British Army officer. He saw active service in the Second Boer War on the staff of Lord Kitchener. Birdwood saw action again in the First World War as commander of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915, leading the landings on the peninsula and then the evacuation later in the year, before becoming commander-in-chief of the Fifth Army on the Western Front during the closing stages of the war. He went on to be general officer commanding the Northern Army in India in 1920 and Commander-in-Chief, India, in 1925.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]