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WASHINGTON, April 26-- Faced with mounting opposition, House Democrats backtracked today on their plans to push a revised farm bill with direct subsidies to farmers.
WASHINGTON, April 26 --Harry Gold, convicted spy, told a story today of eleven years of espionage and the betrayal of vital chemical, photographic and atomic bomb secrets to the Russians.
Tellier & Co: W F Tellier indicted by Bklyn Fed grand jury in $15-million swindle involving Consol Uranium Mines stock; charged with 7 mail fraud violations, 7 '33 Securities Act violations; indictment 1st in US involving uranium stock; 4-mos probe shows Tellier bought stock at 1¢, sold it at $1.87 as 'sure thing'; Consol Uranium not involved; reptdly warned Tellier against extravagant claims
WASHINGTON, April 26-- The Government smoothed the way today for a greater volume of exports to the Soviet Union and to her European satellites. It marked the first major easing of trade restrictions since the beginning of the "cold war."
STUTTGART, Germany, April 26--Chancellor Konrad Adenauer said tonight that the United States Government expected West Germany to adopt a law for eighteen-month military conscription.
1956Bryan Harvey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2006)[†]
Bryan Taber Harvey was an American musician noted for his fronting role in House of Freaks.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]