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Cong approves $2-billion rise in Govt lending authority in price support program
Dumaines', McGinnis' policies compared; McGinnis defends his adm; illus
Twenty-four hours more of peace appears likely in the dispute between milk tank-truck drivers and their employers.
Statement on Communist China release of 11 US fliers
Kefauver charges Eisenhower, Adams withhold vital data; Dixon denies seeking to 'cover up' Wenzell roll in negotiations, Kefauver subcom; says he erred in testifying before SEC that he depended primarily on First Boston exec com chmn Linsley for advice on interest rates or over-all cost of money Dixon-Yates needed; says neither Wenzell nor any other repr attended contract negotiations; Langer charges perjury; Dixon approves Eisenhower order to cancel contract in light of Memphis decision to build plant; Anderson asks Adm give Cong detailed acct of cancellation negotiations, lrs to Eisenhower, AEC, Justice Dept, Budget Bur; asks monthly repts to his com
1955Caleb Carr, American historian and author (died 2024)[â ]
Caleb Carr was an American military historian and author. Carr was the second of three sons born to Lucien Carr and Francesca Von Hartz.
1955Tony Godden, English footballer and manager[â ]
Anthony Leonard Godden is an English former footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Football League for West Bromwich Albion, Luton Town, Walsall, Chelsea, Birmingham City, Bury and Peterborough United.
1955Butch Vig, American drummer, songwriter, and record producer[â ]
Bryan David "Butch" Vig is an American musician, record producer, and songwriter who is the drummer and co-producer of the rock band Garbage. Producer of the diamond selling Nirvana album Nevermind (1991), Vig also produced for several other alternative rock acts of the 1990s, including the Smashing Pumpkins, L7, and Sonic Youth. Some notable production credits of Vig's include L7's Bricks are Heavy (1992) and the Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream (1993).
1955Alfred LĂ©pine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1901)[â ]
Joseph Alfred Pierre Hormisdas "Pit" LĂ©pine was a Canadian ice hockey forward and coach. He was born in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec.
1955Wallace Stevens, American poet and educator (born 1879)[â ]
Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[â ]