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Chile abandoned this week the curious price-supporting role she has been playing in the world copper market since early summer. And many metals authorities believe the beginning of copper's long-expected price decline may not be far off.
PRINCETON, N. J., Dec. 12 -- Fordham, considered one of the East's ranking quintets, encountered unexpected first-half opposition tonight before going on to defeat Princeton, 74 -- 61, in the Dillon Gymnasium. The victory was the fourth in a row for the unbeaten Rams, who led at the intermission by a 30-28 margin.
Add the Giants -- the baseball Giants, that is -- as the latest to yield to the general trend of increasing night game bookings.
THE books for Christmas giving this year are in more even balance than they have been at any time since the war. There are volumes for every taste and inclination and delight. If we have moved farther away than ever from Mr. Harding's chimeric normalcy, we have achieved the possibly far more difficult attitude of regarding uproars and upheavals as the normal order of the day.
C M Reckert on corp earnings, Jan-Sept
1953Ben Bernanke, American economist[†]
Ben Shalom Bernanke is an American economist who served as the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014. After leaving the Federal Reserve, he was appointed a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution. During his tenure as chairman, Bernanke oversaw the Federal Reserve's response to the 2008 financial crisis, for which he was named the 2009 Time Person of the Year. Before becoming Federal Reserve chairman, Bernanke was a tenured professor at Princeton University and chaired the Department of Economics there from 1996 to September 2002, when he went on public service leave. Bernanke was awarded the 2022 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, jointly with Douglas Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig, "for research on banks and financial crises", more specifically for his analysis of the Great Depression.
1953Bob Gainey, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Robert Michael Gainey is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Canadiens from 1973 until 1989. After retiring from active play, he became a hockey coach and later an executive with the Minnesota North Stars/Dallas Stars organization before returning to Montreal as general manager from 2003 to 2010. Currently, Gainey serves as a team consultant for the St. Louis Blues as well as a volunteer senior advisor for the Peterborough Petes of the Ontario Hockey League. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1992. In 2017 Gainey was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]