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McQuade testifies he ordered McCormick to retum money to Rickard
Dulles lauds EDC as concept developed by Eurs; US officials fear Cong may cut aid if ratification is delayed
Eisenhower orders BLS to pub old index in addition to new index
elections; F R Brown pres; resolutions
bus service normal; traffic still light; Bingham repts subway vol off but not as much as expected; repts vol during strike was up 12%, mainly on Manhattan IRT; Mayor credits smooth operation of munic lines to advance planning by police and Transport Bd; lauds police
1953A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom.[†]
The North Sea flood of 1953, also known as the Big Flood or East Coast Flood or as the Flood Disaster, was a catastrophic flood caused by a heavy storm surge in the North Sea that struck low-lying coastal areas of the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United Kingdom. More than 2,000 people were killed on land and hundreds more at sea. It was the worst natural disaster of the 20th century in the United Kingdom and the worst in the Netherlands since the Middle Ages.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]