Plan Jobs for 15,000 Palestine Refugees

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BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sunday (AP)—Work will start soon of the Yarmuk River irrigation project which will offer jobs to 15,000 Palestine refugees. Technical advice is being provided under the U. S. Point 4 plan and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency is providing the funds.

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THE PAGE AND THE LABEL DO NOT AGREE ABOUT THE DATE AND THE LABEL’S DATE HAS BEEN KEPT. There is no masthead, no folio and no page number. The dateline, read at 2.5x, is “BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sunday (AP)” — a weekday and no calendar date, which is the form a paper uses for a dispatch filed for that same morning’s edition. The label dates the printing 5 August 1952, which was a TUESDAY. A Sunday-filed dispatch under a Sunday dateline normally appears in a Sunday or Monday paper; 3 August 1952 was the Sunday and 4 August the Monday. Either the label’s day is wrong by one or two, or this paper ran a two-day-old agency filler under its original dateline, which papers do. Nothing on the clipping settles it, and nothing on it names a paper, a city or a year either: the attribution to this newspaper rests on the label and on the other two images on the slide having been fixed to the label’s other two entries by their own datelines. The excerpt is the whole item, a two-sentence agency filler. “Work will start soon of the Yarmuk River irrigation project” is as printed.

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"Plan Jobs for 15,000 Palestine Refugees," Worcester Telegram, 5 August 1952. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1952-006. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1952-006