" When the candy-chocked shmoos were dropped, a near-riot resulted ," ( reported in Newsweek — October 11, 1948 ).

Evidence suggests a third release in 1938, consisting of toads being used for human pregnancy tests — many species of toad were found to be effective for this task, and were employed for about 20 years after the discovery was announced in 1948.

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* Radio-Craft — July 1929 to June 1948 — became Radio-Electronics

* Radio Electronics — July 1948 to January 2003

* Radio News — July 1919 ( as Radio Amateur News ) to July 1948

In two 1936 patent applications, Konrad Zuse also anticipated that machine instructions could be stored in the same storage used for data — the key insight of what became known as the von Neumann architecture, first implemented in the British SSEM of 1948.

Zuse also claimed to have designed the first higher-level programming language, which he named Plankalkül, in 1945 ( published in 1948 ) although it was implemented for the first time in 2000 by a team around Raúl Rojas at the Free University of Berlin — five years after Zuse died.

* 1948 – 1950 VJ — Willys Jeepster

Those two championships mark the Eagles as the only NFL team ever to win back-to-back championships by shutouts, defeating the Chicago Cardinals, 7 – 0, in 1948 — in a blizzard — and the Los Angeles Rams, 14 – 0, in 1949.

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* 1948 — 15, 872, 625

In 1948 Alan Courtney — New York disk jockey and co-composer of the popular song, " Joltin ' Joe Dimaggio " — began a call-in program for the Storer station in Miami, Florida ( WGBS ) and then on Miami's WQAM, WINZ and WCKR the " Alan Courtney Open Phone Forum " flourished as an avowedly conservative and anti-communist political forum with a coverage area over the Southeastern U. S. and Cuba.

Both attempts ( in 1948 and 1968 ) failed, but not by much — in both cases a shift in the result of two close states would have forced the respective elections into the House.

* Kurzman, Dan ( 1970 ), Genesis 1948 — the first Arab-Israeli war, New American Library, New York, Library of Congress CCN: 77-96925

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The term think tank itself, however, originally referred to organizations that offered military advice — most notably the RAND Corporation, founded originally in 1946 as an offshoot of Douglas Aircraft, and which became an independent corporation in 1948.

* 1948: Best Director — Gentleman's Agreement

* The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict — An overview of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians from 1948 through the present day.

1948 brought the ultimate victory of the Communists, and the subsequent end of civil freedoms — any literature contrary to the official perspective was banned and the authors persecuted.

* Japanese — Osamu Shimizu: Moonlight and Pierrot Suite ( 1948 / 49 ; male chorus ; text by Horiguchi Daigaku ).

This event was repeated in 1947, and in 1948 an even more ambitious one was held, the Gran Premio de la América del Sur from Buenos Aires to Caracas, Venezuela — Fangio had an accident in which his co-driver was killed.

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

The basic theory of nucleosynthesis was developed in 1948 by George Gamow, Ralph Asher Alpher and Robert Herman.

The torch for the 1948 London Olympics was designed by architect Ralph Lavers.

Gamow produced an important cosmogony paper with his student Ralph Alpher, which was published as " The Origin of Chemical Elements " ( Physical Review, April 1, 1948 ).

* Ralph Chaplin, Wobbly: The Rough-and-Tumble Story of an American Radical ( The University of Chicago Press, 1948 ).

* 1948 North Ridge of Mount Baker, North Cascades Fred Beckey, Ralph and Dick Widrig ( August 1948 )

Having secured public funding from the UGC in January 1948, the Committee acquired Keele Hall, a stately home on the outskirts of Newcastle-under-Lyme, from its owner, Ralph Sneyd.

Ralph Nelson Elliott ( 1871 – 1948 ), a professional accountant, discovered the underlying social principles and developed the analytical tools in the 1930s.

# Ralph Kiner: 382 ( Pittsburgh Pirates, 1948 )

Savoy's artistic directors have included Buck Ram, Teddy Reig, Ralph Bass ( 1948 ‒ 1952 ), Fred Mendelsohn ( 1953 ), and Ozzie Cadena ( 1954 ‒ 1962 ) ( father of punk rock musician, Dez Cadena ).

Up to now, Ralph had been playing the banjo with two fingers only on recordings and in concerts but switched in 1948 to the three-finger style popularised by Earl Scruggs.

Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman made a scientific prediction in 1948 that we should still be able to observe these red-shifted photons today as an ambient cosmic microwave background radiation ( CMBR ) pervading all space with a temperature of about five Kelvin ( when the CMBR was actually first detected in 1965, its temperature was found to be three Kelvin ).

* Ralph Avenue Line, 1905 – 1908 ; Ralph and Rockaway Avenues Line, 1908 – 1923 and 1931 – 1948

They were followed by Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest in 1948, and Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie directed by Gielgud, starring Helen Hayes ; and The Heiress, an adaptation of Henry James's Washington Square, directed by Gielgud and starring Ralph Richardson and Peggy Ashcroft, who was succeeded by Wendy Hiller ( 1949 – 50 ).

A cosmic microwave background was predicted in 1948 by George Gamow and Ralph Alpher, and by Alpher and Robert Herman as due to the hot big bang model.

* Ralph Chaplin, Wobbly: The Rough-and-Tumble Story of an American Radical ( The University of Chicago Press, 1948 ), ch.

Action Comics # 127 ( December 1948 ), featuring Superman appearing on the show with Ralph Edwards

* Ralph Hepburn ( 1896 – 1948 ), American motorcycle and racecar driver

Dr. Reade served until 1948, he was followed by Dr. Ralph Thaxton, who came from University of Georgia, where he had served as professor, Dean, Director of Admissions, and Registrar.

The Olympians were led by University of Kentucky alumni Alex Groza and Ralph Beard, both of whom were key contributors on the gold medal winning 1948 US Olympic basketball team.

" Truman also did not make time to present the 1948 award to Trans World Airlines CEO Ralph Damon or Brazilian aviation pioneer Francisco Pignatari The award to Pan American World Airways President Juan Trippe in 1946 was the only one presented without debate.

His work in the theatre included Noël Coward's Present Laughter ( 1943 ) which starred Coward himself, and The Eagle with Two Heads ( 1947 ), You Never Can Tell ( 1948 ), and The Heiress ( 1949 ) with Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft and Donald Sinden.