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Comr Masciarelli repts retail trade stability, greater price uniformity, NYC; finds no ceiling violations
Lt Gen Weyland named US Far East Air Forces Comdr, replacing Lt Gen Stratemeyer; Maj Gen Everest named 5th Air Force comdr
Testifies on Truman-MacArthur policy rift, Sen com; illus
com, 15-10, accepts plan; levy called 'defense tax'; Simpson substitute again rejected; Repubs angry; com reverses action on enterprises operated as hobbies; rejects Keogh proposal for $1,440 exemption on all pensions and annuities
Sec Acheson denies US policy shift; approves substance of Rusk s but disagrees with language
1951Thomas N. Heffron, American actor, director, screenwriter (born 1872)[†]
Thomas N. Heffron was a screenwriter, actor, and a director. He was born in Nevada, He worked as an attorney and danced in vaudeville before he began his career in film with Thanhousr in 1911, eventually landing him a role with Paramount Pictures a few years later. He left the movie industry in 1922, making all his movies in the silent era.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]