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RUSSIA'S INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT and that of its satellites topped rates forecast earlier by U.N., but West Europe's production declined, says U.N. Economic Commission for Europe.
In many of Louis Wolfson's battles and deals, his associate was David B. Charnay, longtime New York Daily News reporter, now chairman and part owner of a Manhattan public relations firm. Last November Wolfson sold a trailer company controlled by one of his interests to Detroit's...
¶ The Senate, illustrating the swiftness with which hot political issues sizzle up and then subside in Washington, passed a bill creating a new space agency by voice vote with only a third of its members present. Under its terms, space research and space projects programing would be planned by...
After 1929 Herbert Swope's life seemed a kind of wondrously sustained afterglow. He still held court at Manhattan's "21" Club, still darted down to Washington to offer unsolicited but hortatory advice to Presidents-notably Franklin D. Roosevelt. He turned his awesome energy to charities and humanitarianism...
Died. Alford Joseph Williams Jr., 66, professional-aviator, prophet and pioneer of U.S. military aviation, first man to fly over 300 m.p.h. (1925, unofficial record); of cancer; in Elizabeth City, N.C. A onetime baseball pitcher (Fordham and New York Giants), Al Williams joined the Navy in World War I, started...