First Italian Peasant Receives Land Under Agrarian Reform
Paolo Di Fazio, a 42-year-old landless farmer from Santa Severina, becomes the first beneficiary of Italy’s agrarian reform funded by Marshall Plan money. The program parcels out thousands of acres to about 400,000 peasants, with land purchases repaid over 30 years, transforming owner-lessness into ownership and aiming to correct centuries of land inequality.
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Italy
Paolo di Fazio
Paolo
Sila
Ialy
Scame
Raimondi
Crotone
Antonio Segni
Ancesco
Alcide de Gasperi
ECA
Segni
Nickel movies draw East Germans to West Berlin theaters
The US high commission reports over 100,000 East Berliners crossed into the Soviet sector border to attend special showings in West Berlin theaters in the past three months. Tickets cost 25 pfennings per seat, about five cents, with films chosen to appeal to East German audiences.
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Berlin
West Berlin
It Wasn't a Man It Was a Buoy at Seaside Park
In Seaside Park New Jersey on November 14 a routine air patrol sparked an all day search when Lt William Murphy reported seeing a man parachuting into the sea. The object proved to be weather bureau radio gear attached to a parachute and a buoy.
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Seaside Park
William Murphy
Weather Bureau
Rubber Planting School to Open in Hampshire
A rubber planting school, the first of its kind in the United Kingdom, will open soon in Hampshire. Led by a veteran Malayan planter returning home on retirement, the course will last six to eight weeks.
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Singapore
United Kingdom
Hampshire
Quirino and Poster Sign Marshall Plan Type Aid Pact
In Baguio on November 14 President Elpidio Quirino and American ECA Chief William C Poster signed an agreement for Marshall Plan type economic aid to the Philippines, pending approval by both nations’ congresses.
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Baguio
Philippines
Elpidio Quirino
ECA
William C. Poster
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