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Econ Com hearing on interestrate bill; Martin calls Reuss amendment inflationary; Reuss defends it
Acoustica Assocs gets $85,188 NASA contract to test high-intensity sound use to control burning rate of solid-propeliant rockets
Fed Reserve Bd repts post-war rate of output increase has been 1/5 greater than indicated by Bd's output index; research dir Young sees new data affecting productivity rates, Joint Econ Com hearing; Chmn Martin explains need to revise index
The first joint peace talks of the two-week steel strike collapsed quickly yesterday.
concrete floors crumble, fill main exhibit hall with dust; floors installed by Russians; exhibitors fear damage to equipment; McClellan hopes to arrange for asphalt floor covering
1959William T. Vollmann, American novelist, short story writer and journalist[†]
William Tanner Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, war correspondent, short story writer, and essayist. He won the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction with the novel Europe Central.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]