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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heart & Head. Last week, as thin, white-haired Father Berard, 75, was escorted to the microphone, young Franciscans in the first two rows of camp chairs cocked their ears to catch his words; from under a dozen brown habits cameras appeared. For half an hour, under a blazing sun, Father Berard spoke in Navajo of the mission's history and the meaning of the faith...
From the Federal Reserve Board came more bullish news in a survey of consumer buying. Despite the recession in the first half of the year, FRB found that few consumers had curtailed buying plans. FRB also noted that consumers were, by & large, counting on a continued high level of income-and with good reason. Personal income for the first eight months of the year, the Department of Commerce reported last week, was at a record rate of $212.6 billion, some $3.2 billion more than in the same period last year...
Point Four & Plan. The combine was first organized 2½ years ago at the suggestion of the U.S. Government to conduct a survey of Japan. Named as president was Clifford S. Strike, 46, president of Manhattan's F. H. McGraw & Co., which built, among other World War II projects, the $36 million Bermuda air base. Last week in a green-carpeted office on Manhattan's East 42nd Street, O.C.I. President Strike and Board Chairman
O.C.I, will start eliminating this abysmal misery not with steel mills and hydroelectric plants, but with cheap soap and DDT. Among the report's specific recommendations for the first year: spray DDT in barns, homes, under sleeping quilts and on the Persians themselves; hire 200 vaccinators and send them out to the villages; begin immediate instruction in elementary midwifery. At Karaj, where the old Shah wanted to build an integrated steel mill, O.C.I, recommends instead a small blast furnace and foundry to produce the pipe which Persia will need during the plan's first phases...
Born. To Cristobal Colon de Carvajal, 17th Duke of Veragua, 24, lieutenant in the Spanish navy, who, as ranking male descendant of Christopher Columbus, holds the hereditary title of Admiral of the Indies ; and former Anunciada Gorosabely Ramirez, 23, Madrid socialite: their first child, a son; in Madrid. Name: Cristobal Colon, 17th Marquess of Jamaica. Weight...