:* 1950: The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

David Orchard ( born June 28, 1950, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian author and political figure, member of the Liberal Party of Canada, who was the Liberal Party candidate for the Saskatchewan riding of Desnethé — Missinippi — Churchill River in the 2008 federal election.

On 21 October 1950, 3 RAR took part part in the ' Apple Orchard ' action north of Pyongyang, the first large-scale engagement fought by a battalion of the regiment.

The NCB's research establishment at Stoke Orchard in Gloucestershire was founded in 1950 with Jacob Bronowski as Director of Research.

* 1950 – Housing Act,

In 1950 the Public Housing Administration gave Greendale residents the right to purchase their homes from the government.

It was acquired by the Housing and Home Finance Agency from the Federal Loan Agency as a constituent unit in 1950.

* The Housing Act of 1950 enlarged and liberalized the loan guarantee privileges of Second World War veterans by administering a direct loan program for those veterans who were unable to acquire private home financing.

* Housing loan repayments-The median monthly housing loan repayment in Stonnington is $ 1950, compared to the Melbourne average of $ 1300.

Robert Taylor Homes were completed in 1962 and named for Robert Rochon Taylor, an African American activist and Chicago Housing Authority ( CHA ) board member who in 1950 resigned when the city council refused to endorse potential building locations throughout the city of Chicago that would induce racially integrated housing.

It appears that no development occurred in northern Hamersley, other than the construction of Beach and Carine Roads in 1900, and the State Housing Commission resumed the land in November 1950.

From April 1950 he was Minister for Works, Water Supply and Housing, working to establish the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company refinery at Kwinana.

In 1949 – 1950 the Queensland Housing Commission purchased ' Serviceton ', comprising approximately 850 acres ( 3. 4 km² ) of land, from the faltering Serviceton Housing Co-operative.

Some of his major public works included the Toussaint L ’ Ouverture Monument ( 1950 ) installed originally at the Haitian National Palace and the General Jean-Jacques Dessalines Monument ( 1952 ), in Port-au-Prince, Haiti ; Green Pastures: Walls of Jericho for the Harlem River Housing Project, and a sculpture of Rose McClendon ( 1932 ), the African American actress, for Frank Lloyd Wright ’ s Fallingwater House.

A Housing Committee was thus formed quickly in 1947, and reported an acute housing shortage facing the city, where the population had already reached a million by 1950.

Modernist architect and Russian émigré Berthold Lubetkin's listed Spa Green Estate, constructed 1943 – 1950, has recently been restored.

The films The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) and Never Let Go ( 1960 ) depict many Paddington streets, which suffered bombing in World War II and were subsequently demolished in the early 1960s to make way for the Westway elevated road and the Warwick Estate housing redevelopment.

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1950 Buick Roadmaster Estate wagon

Mason Estate and sold to the paper's publisher and general manager J. R. Meakes in 1950.

Major non-housing construction projects have included the White City Stadium completed in 1908, the Team Valley Trading Estate completed in 1938, Heathrow Airport completed in 1946, the Clunie Dam in Scotland completed in 1950, the Bank of China Building in Hong Kong completed in 1952, the Hirfanlı Dam in Turkey completed in 1956, the Loch Shin Dam in Scotland completed in 1960, the Furnas Dam in Brazil completed in 1963, the Centre Point building in London completed in 1966, the Llyn Brianne Dam completed in 1972, the HSBC Tower in Hong Kong completed in 1985, the Gyle Shopping Centre completed in 1993, and the Channel Tunnel completed in 1994.

Many housing estates have been built since 1950, including Ling Beck Park, Hunter's Drive Estate and Whitestiles, and make up the vast majority of the current population.

In Re Schneider's Estate, 96 N. Y. S. 2d 652 ( 1950 ), is an example where renvoi is recognized as an option, in which the local court chose to apply the foreign country's laws to decide the dispute in the local court.

Subsequently, fellow dipterist E. C. M. d ' Assis-Fonseca found a single male in Blaise Wood near Bristol in 1949, and in 1950 E. E. Lowe found the species at Combe Dingle, which is close to the Blaise Castle Estate within which Blaise Wood lies.

Arkansas combined 280 yards rushing with 64 yards passing ( on 5 completions in 7 tosses ) and a tough defense to whip TCU, and A & M, with a 38-point bulge against Texas Tech ran up its biggest total loop play since 1950.

: See the discography section of Bill Haley & His Comets for a list of the singles and album releases made by Haley with the Saddlemen and the Comets from 1950 onwards.

Samson and Delilah, although pre-1950, has been retained by Paramount, as are all the DeMille / Paramount silent films produced before 1928, and all sound films produced after 1950 — television distribution for those films is handled by Trifecta Entertainment & Media.

* Rewald, John, ed., with the assistance of Lucien Pissarro: Camille Pissarro, Lettres à son fils Lucien, Editions Albin Michel, Paris 1950 ; previously published, translated to English: Camille Pissarro, Letters to his son Lucien, New York 1943 & London 1944 ; 3rd revised edition, Paul P Appel Publishers, 1972 ISBN 0-911858-22-9

Thompson's own haunting recitation of his 1950 poem of " apocalyptic expectation, " The Place Called Choice ," appeared on the 1984 vinyl recording, " The Apocalypso ," by Canadian pop group, Singing Fools, released by A & M Records.

* London Enterprise, an oil tanker built for London & Overseas Freighters in 1950 and scrapped c. 1974

London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne, 1950.

Six volumes of Peake's verse were published during his lifetime ; Shapes & Sounds ( 1941 ), Rhymes without Reason 1944, The Glassblowers ( 1950 ), The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb ( 1962 ), Poems & Drawings ( 1965 ), and A Reverie of Bone ( 1967 ).

* 1950 – Robert Kool Bell, American musician ( Kool & the Gang )

The work, which was undertaken by John Mowlem & Co., was completed in 1950, whereupon both Houses returned to their chambers.

Nat King Cole, a former jazz pianist who had had # 1 and # 2 hits on the pop charts in the early 1950s (" Mona Lisa " at # 2 in 1950 and " Too Young " at # 1 in 1951 ), had a record in the top 5 in the R & B charts in 1958, " Looking Back "/" Do I Like It ".

), G. & C. Merriam Company, Springfield, MA, 1950.

In the Sight & Sound directors ' poll, it was voted at number ten in 1992 and number nine in 2002, in both cases being tied with Kurosawa's own Rashomon ( 1950 ).

Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1950.

* November 20 – Zeffie Tilbury, stage & film actress ( daughter of Lydia Thompson ) ( d. 1950 )

It can also refer to some of CBS's first demonstrations of color television, which were held in a former Tiffany & Co. building in New York City in 1950.

They are: George and Ira Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing ( 1932 ) ¹, Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific ( 1950 ), Bock & Harnick's Fiorello!

Since 1950, almost every year at Easter, long distance canoeists have been competing in what is now known as the Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Race, which follows the course of the Kennet & Avon Canal, joins the River Thames at Reading and runs right up to a grand finish at Westminster Bridge.

In 1950 he contributed the Introduction to a Constable & Co omnibus edition of Damon Runyon's " stories of the bandits of Broadway ", which was republished by Penguin Books in 1990 as On Broadway.

After working as Editor of the Church Times from 1948 to 1949, Heath worked as a management trainee at the merchant bankers Brown, Shipley & Co. until his election as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bexley in the February 1950 general election.

After the signing of Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance in 1950, the Soviet Union assisted China's military R & D with training, technical documentation, manufacturing equipment, and license-production of Soviet weapons.

* Monster Rally ( 1950 ) third anthology of drawings ( Simon & Schuster )

* Reg Groves & Philip Lindsay ( 1950 )-The Peasants Revolt 1381 ( Greenwood Press )

* A Year of Grace: Passages chosen & arranged to express a mood about God and man ( 1950 )