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Soc Dems win with 38.5% of vote, more than combined percentage of Govt coalition parties; Hesse and Frankfurt munic results tabulated; 1 Soc Dem and 1 Christian Dem win Bundestag seats
J E McCarthy sees rise needed if NYC Omnibus Corp buys munic lines
role of business, labor and Govt groups, especially NYC Commerce Dept and NY Commerce & Indus Assn hailed; Comr Shirley comments
strikers agree to release 10,000 gals to USAF from struck Kan plant
workers angered at collapse of co-union talks
1952Ed Lee, American politician and attorney, 43rd Mayor of San Francisco (died 2017)[†]
Edwin Mah Lee was an American politician and attorney who served as the 43rd Mayor of San Francisco from 2011 until his death in 2017.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]