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Mayor Impellitteri and Corp Counsel Hurley oppose Penna RR and Transit Authority reorgn plans; see NYC losing about $3 million a yr in taxes and $13,025,235 in back taxes; will ask impartial re-exam of situation by ICC
elected AFL pres; statement; par
5-shilling piece commem planned
ban on all standing or unloading vehicles during rush hrs, 1st and 2d Avs, to be tested in move to dislodge permanent parkers and speed traffic; Wiley on plan; cost put at $40,000; Met Garage Trade Bd E Side members to set up special day rates for short-term parkers
1952Elsa Salazar Cade, Mexican-American science teacher and entomologist[†]
William Henry Cade is an American-Canadian biologist who served as the president and vice-chancellor of the University of Lethbridge from 2000 to 2010. His research articles deal mainly with entomology and animal behavior, particularly with field crickets.
1952Wendy Turnbull, Australian tennis player[†]
Wendy Turnbull, is an Australian retired tennis player. During her career, she won nine Grand Slam titles, four of them in women's doubles and five of them in mixed doubles. She also was a three-time Grand Slam runner-up in singles and won 11 singles titles and 55 doubles titles.
1952Sven Hedin, Swedish geographer and explorer (born 1865)[†]
Sven Anders Hedin, KNO1kl RVO, was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator of his own works. During four expeditions to Central Asia, he made the Transhimalaya known in the West and located sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus and Sutlej Rivers. He also mapped lake Lop Nur, and the remains of cities, grave sites and the Great Wall of China in the deserts of the Tarim Basin. In his book Från pol till pol, Hedin describes a journey through Asia and Europe between the late 1880s and the early 1900s. While traveling, Hedin visited Turkey, the Caucasus, Tehran, Iraq, lands of the Kyrgyz people and the Russian Far East, India, China and Japan. The posthumous publication of his Central Asia Atlas marked the conclusion of his life's work.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]