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American forestry reached a golden milestone recently when the national tree farm program passed the 50,000,000-acre mark.
CHICAGO, Sept. 26 -- Under cover of a leaden sky, the National League pennant race took a most extraordinary turn today.
FOR Melvyn Douglas and a team of playwrights, the play of social or political commentary is the thing.
In contrast with rather tentative progress in world political affairs, trade and economic activity of many countries has been taking a definite and sustained upturn.
J Kieran book A Natural History of New York City revd
1959Beth Heiden, American speed skater and cyclist[†]
Elizabeth Lee Heiden Reid is an American athlete who excelled in speed skating, cross-country skiing, and bicycle racing. She was born in Madison, Wisconsin. She was a speedskating bronze medalist at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics, where her brother Eric won five speedskating gold medals.
1959Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in Japan.[†]
Typhoon Vera, also known as the Isewan Typhoon , was an exceptionally intense tropical cyclone that struck Japan in September 1959, becoming the strongest and deadliest typhoon on record to make landfall on the country, as well as the only one to do so as a Category 5 equivalent storm. The storm's intensity resulted in catastrophic damage of unparalleled severity and extent, and was a major setback to the Japanese economy, which was still recovering from World War II. In the aftermath of Vera, Japan's disaster management and relief systems were significantly reformed, and the typhoon's effects would set a benchmark for future storms striking the country.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]