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Dr M B Jacobs says corrosion caused by sulphur dioxide in air cost NYC over $5 million to repair City Hall and Bklyn Boro Hall
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, May 27 -- The Soviet-Yugoslav friendship negotiations got off to a cool start today. They are designed to make up for past differences and, if possible, to establish a mutual understanding on international questions.
Conservatives win 59-seat majority over all other parties, 66 over Laborites; Govt has more comfortable majority than enjoyed by any Right-Wing Govt since '35; is 1st Govt to be reelected with increased majority in 90 yrs; returns from all but 2 constituencies show Conservatives and assocs have 343 seats, Labor 277; Liberals 5, Communists none; 76.82% of electorate voted; Labor vote put at 1.5 million less than in '51, 1st time since '22 that party has failed to increase total vote; Conservative vote down 500,000; swing to party put at 1.8%; party will challenge Sinn Fein election of T Mitchell and P Clarke, now in jail for roles in Oct raid on Omagh mil barracks; experts comment on Conservatives victory revd; Phillips calls defeat in 12 marginal seats decisive; Eden lauds party workers; illus with Woolton; Attlee illus at Labor hdqrs
1955Laura Amy Schlitz, American author and librarian[†]
Laura Amy Schlitz is an American author of children's literature. She is a librarian and storyteller at the Park School of Baltimore in Brooklandville, Maryland.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]