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Pres Craig announces direct common stock offer of 5,750,000 shares to stockholders on Oct 1, largest such offer and co's 1st since '30; offer hinges on approval by SEC and stockholders at Sept 7 meeting to raise authorized common stock from 60 million to 100 million shares; stockholders to get rights to buy stock at $100 par value on 1-10 basis; may sell or transfer rights and pay in 2 equal installments; stock price drops, NYSE; Craig says debenture issues will remain co's main source of future funds; explains need for stock increase; capital outlay since World War II revd
ACCRA, Gold Coast, July 18 --The Gold Coast, Britain's self governing Negro dependency in West Africa, appears today to have met the condition laid down by London for independence.
Defense Dept repts Far East Command to be abolished in '57; all forces and installations in area, except in SK, to be transferred to Navy jurisdiction under Adm Stump; Gen Lemnitzer reptdly to be transferred to top command elsewhere
WASHINGTON, July 18--The Senate opened formal debate tonight on the controversial Hell's Canyon power project. Democrats charged the Eisenhower Administration, meanwhile, with putting extreme pressure on Republican Senators to vote against the bill.
1956Mark Crispin, American computer scientist, designed the IMAP (died 2012)[†]
Mark Reed Crispin is best known as the father of the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), having invented it in 1985 during his time at the Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory. He is the author or co-author of numerous RFCs and was the principal author of UW IMAP, one of the reference implementations of the IMAP4rev1 protocol described in RFC 3501. He also designed the MIX mail storage format.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]