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March 8, 1954

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Headlines from March 8, 1954

HOUSE TO IGNORE HUMPHREY APPEAL ON EXCISE TAX CUT; Billion Slash Due Wednesday -- Labor Leaders Support Increase in Exemptions

By Clayton Knowles

Repr Halleck backs bill

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Moses Selected by Dewey As State Power Chairman; Will Direct St. Lawrence and Niagara Projects -- Retains Other Posts

By Leo Egan

named NYS Power Authority chmn; to retain other pub offices under special legis signed by Dewey; Moses says Mayor Wagner has no objection to apptmt; por

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Turkey Opened to Search for Oil; Foreign Concerns Get Incentives; TURKEY IS OPENED TO SEARCH FOR OIL

By Welles Hangen

Assembly, 266-17, denationalizes oil resources and opens them to development by foreign cos; creates Natl Petroleum Co to continue Govt operations in Ramandag-Garzan area; map; rights and duties of foreign cos detailed; M W Ball role in drafting legis noted

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BEAME SEES STATE 'STRANGLING' CITY; Budget Director Tells Mayor Albany Is Offering Boy-Size Suit to Man-Size Town

By Paul Crowell

3d Beame rept charges Dewey Adm seeks to strangulate city

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M'CARTHY SEEKING AIR TIME TO REPLY; Derides Talk by Stevenson -- Mitchell Opens Bid to Put the Onus on President

By the United Press

McCarthy to demand equal free radio and TV time to reply to Stevenson; Stevenson s was carried free as pub service by CBS TV and NBC radio; Mitchell comment; McCarthy charges Stevenson did clever job of confusing people

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Notable Births

1954Steve James, American documentary filmmaker^[†]

Steve James is an American film producer and director of several documentaries, including Hoop Dreams (1994), Stevie (2002), The Interrupters (2011), Life Itself (2014), and Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2016).

1954David Wilkie, Sri Lankan-Scottish swimmer (died 2024)^[†]

David Andrew Wilkie was a Scottish swimmer who was the Olympic 200m breaststroke champion in 1976, the first British swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal since Anita Lonsbrough in 1960. He is the only person to have held British, Commonwealth, European, World and Olympic swimming titles at the same time. Wilkie, a member of the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame and the International Swimming Hall of Fame, has been described as Scotland's greatest and Britain's finest swimmer. Fellow Olympic breaststroke gold medallist Duncan Goodhew considered him an "extraordinary talent" and "one of Britain's greatest ever athletes".

Historical Context for March 8, 1954

In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people^[†]