In 1945 he became conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic.

Fernand Braudel became the leader of the second generation after 1945.

From 1942 to 1944 George Orwell was a proponent of Basic English, but in 1945 he became critical of universal languages.

The Unitarian Service Committee of Canada, founded in 1945, was receiving considerable attention both in city newspapers and on television, so much so that the word “ Unitarian ” became a household world, though its meaning was not that widely known.

The city became part of Poland in 1945 and was repopulated with Polish citizens.

He was hired as a regular staff cartoonist in 1921 and became lead cartoonist in 1945 but was removed from this post by Malcolm Muggeridge, who became editor in 1953.

Mountbatten making an address in Singapore, 1945. As a result of the Dieppe raid, Mountbatten became a controversial figure in Canada, with the Royal Canadian Legion distancing itself from him during his visits there during his later career ; his relations with Canadian veterans " remained frosty ".

Anchors Aweigh became one of the most successful films of 1945 and it garnered Kelly his first and only Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

Moving to London in 1945, following the repeal of the Witchcraft Act of 1736 he became intent on propagating this religion, attracting media attention and writing about it in High Magic's Aid ( 1949 ), Witchcraft Today ( 1954 ) and The Meaning of Witchcraft ( 1959 ).

From 1945 to 1956, the German Mine Sweeping Administration and its successor organizations, made up of former members of the Kriegsmarine, became something of a transition stage for the Marine, allowing the future Marine to draw on experienced personnel upon its formation.

The Scottish National Party gained its first seat at Westminster in 1945 and became a party of national prominence during the 1970s, achieving 11 MPs in 1974.

In 1945 he became a member of the Nazi Party.

After the Fall of Singapore to Japan, he became a prisoner of war at Changi Prison from February 1942 to September 1945.

In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner, who became an important influence on his career and on his legacy.

In 1945, he became a Dramaturg at the Bavarian State Opera and there, as one of the few internationally-recognized figures who had survived untainted by any collaboration with the Nazi regime, he became a vital figure in the rebuilding of ( West ) German musical life.

After the United Nations was founded in 1945 and the League of Nations was disbanded, all but one of the mandated territories that remained under the control of the mandatory power became United Nations trust territories, a roughly equivalent status.

Merleau-Ponty first taught at Chartres, then became a tutor at the École Normale Supérieure, where he was awarded his doctorate on the basis of two important books: La structure du comportement ( 1942 ) and Phénoménologie de la Perception ( 1945 ).

According to the Masurian Institute the Masurian members of resistance against Nazi Germany who survived the war, became active in 1945 in the region, working in Olsztyn in cooperation with new state authorities in administration, education and cultural affairs

Suriname and Indonesia became independent of the Netherlands in the period of decolonization: Suriname in 1975 and Indonesia in 1945 ( it was not until 16 August 2005 that the Dutch government recognized 1945-and not 1949-as the country's year of independence ).

Nancy Reagan also became stepmother to Maureen Reagan ( 1941 – 2001 ) and Michael Reagan ( born 1945 ), the children of her husband's first marriage to Jane Wyman.

In May 1945 an RAF Lancaster of the Aries expedition became the first Commonwealth aircraft to overfly the North Geographic and North Magnetic Poles.

He joined the University of Texas in 1945 as an assistant professor of chemistry, became an associate professor in 1946, a full professor in 1950, a department chair in 1952, dean of research in 1960, vice president and provost in 1961, and vice chancellor for academic affairs for the University of Texas System in 1963.

* 1945 – Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary ; he is never publicly seen again.

In early 1956, the City of Kiel decided to publicly give back to Raeder the Ehrenbürger (" free citizen ") status which the Nazis had awarded him and which been taken away by the British in 1945 ; after attracting much negative media attention all over the world, Raeder was secretly asked by the city government to decline the award.

Cristal was made publicly available with the 1945 vintage.

After World War II, during the communist Bodenreform ( land reform ) of September 1945 in the Soviet Occupation Zone, later East Germany, all private property exceeding an area of was nationalised and redistributed to Volkseigene Güter (" publicly owned estates ", VEG ).

However, by the late 1930s he began to distance himself from the movement, and in 1945, he publicly criticized it.

On January 10, 1945, he delivered a celebrated " speech heard round the world " in the Senate Chamber, publicly announcing his conversion from " isolationism " to " internationalism.

In April 1945, Fraser publicly criticised the Australian government's handling of waterside industrial disputes that were holding up British ships.

As with his predecessor, President Juan José Arévalo Bermejo ( 1945 – 51 ), and because of the liberal changes to the economy of Guatemala, the land-owning upper classes and the political factions in the military, publicly accused President Árbenz of being unduly influenced by the four-man PGT Communist minority in the fifty-six-member senate of Guatemala — a serious personal imputation and political accusation during the Cold War, of which the US Government took serious note.

In Norway, Bishop Fjellbu of Oslo, who was imprisoned for his resistance, said in 1945: " I wish to state publicly that the foundations of the united resistance of Norwegian Churchmen to Nazism were laid by the Oxford Group's work.

These rumors persisted until June 1945, when the government publicly said it would not support a Mahdist monarchy.

Topham's heroism was acknowledged publicly with a parade and civic reception in Toronto on August 8, 1945 ; one hundred members of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion served as a guard of honour.

She feuded with her daughter, who publicly " divorced " her in 1945, and with her former son-in-law, Drew Pearson, by whom she had a granddaughter, Ellen Cameron Pearson Arnold ( July 27, 1926-September 10, 2010 ).

The Firqah-i Dimukrat, or Azerbaijani Democratic Party ( ADP ), publicly announced its formation in Tabriz on September 3, 1945 by a group of veteran communists headed by Jafar Pishevari.

In 1945, both acts traded guest appearances on each other's top-rated radio shows.

Eckersley was traded on May 25, 1984 with Mike Brumley to the Chicago Cubs for Bill Buckner, one of several mid-season deals that helped the Cubs to their first postseason appearance since 1945.

These players include Andy Pafko ( who, coincidentally, played in the 1945 World Series as a Cub ), Gene Baker, Smoky Burgess, Don Hoak, Dale Long, Lou Brock ( whose first title was in after a mid-season trade to the St. Louis Cardinals ), Lou Johnson, Jim Brewer, Moe Drabowsky, Don Cardwell, Ken Holtzman, Billy North, Fred Norman, Bill Madlock, Manny Trillo, Greg Gross, Rick Monday, Burt Hooton, Bruce Sutter, Willie Hernández, Joe Niekro, Dennis Eckersley, Joe Carter, Greg Maddux, Joe Girardi ( as both a player and a manager ), José Vizcaíno, Glenallen Hill ( after his second stint with the Cubs ; his title came in after a mid-season trade ), Luis Gonzalez, Mike Morgan, Mark Grace, Mark Bellhorn, Bill Mueller, Scott Eyre ( whose title came in after he been traded from the Cubs during the season ), Tom Gordon, Matt Stairs, Jamie Moyer, in, Mark DeRosa and Mike Fontenot — the former of whom had been traded the offseason before, the latter having been traded that midseason, and in, Ryan Theriot who was traded the previous season.

He was traded to the Phillies where he played in 1944 and early in 1945, before serving in the U. S. Navy during World War II.

After starting the next year 3-3, he was traded to the Phillies on June 15, 1945, becoming player-manager on June 30.

Two Cities Films, an independent production company also made some important films including This Happy Breed ( 1944 ), Blithe Spirit ( 1945 ) and Sir Laurence Olivier's Henry V ( 1944 ) and Hamlet ( 1948 ).

Zuse's company ( with the Z1, Z2 and Z3 ) was destroyed in 1945 by an Allied air attack.

From 1945 to 1960, the U. S .- owned Nicaraguan Long Leaf Pine Company ( NIPCO ) directly paid the Somoza family millions of dollars in exchange for favorable benefits to the company, such as not having to re-forest clear cut areas.

In the autumn of 1945, Škoda ( along with all large manufacturers ) became part of the planned economy, which meant it was separated from the parent Škoda company.

Between 1945 and GEC's demerger of its defence business in 1999, the company became one of the world's most important defence contractors.

The specific heating effect of a beam of high-power microwaves was discovered accidentally in 1945, shortly after high-powered microwave radar transmitters were developed and widely disseminated by the Allies of World War II, using the British magnetron technology that was shared with the United States company, Raytheon, in order to secure production facilities to produce the magnetron.

From 1933 to 1945, Blohm & Voss also operated the Hamburger Flugzeugbau aircraft company.

In 1945, the Italian petrol company Agip, directed by Enrico Mattei, started extracting methane from its fields, and Lodi was the first Italian town with a regular domestic gas service.

On May 19, 1945, DuMont opened experimental W3XWT in Washington, D. C. A minority shareholder in DuMont Laboratories was Paramount Pictures, which had advanced $ 400, 000 in 1939 for a 40 % share in the company.

During World War II US B-29 bomber attack destroyed Tōkai Seiki's Yamashita plant in 1944, and the Itawa plant collapsed in the 1945 Mikawa earthquake, and Soichiro Honda sold the salvageable remains of the company to Toyota after the war for ¥ 450, 000, and used the proceeds to found the Honda Technical Research Institute in October 1946.

A. G. „ Weser " was leading company in Deutsche Schiff-und Maschinenbau AG, a cooperation of eight German shipbuilding companies between 1926 and 1945.

The Deschimag was dissolved 1945 after World War II and the company was renamed to the former Aktien-Gesellschaft „ Weser ”.

In 1945, the National Liberation Committee appointed him to the leadership of Agip ( Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli-General Italian Oil Company ), the national oil company created by the Fascists, with instructions to close it as soon as possible.

Commonly known as Avro Canada, this company started in 1945 as an aircraft plant and became within thirteen years the third-largest company in Canada, one of the largest 100 companies in the world, and directly employing over 50, 000.

His share in the profits of this smash hit gave McCarey the highest reported income in the U. S. for the year 1944, and its follow-up, The Bells of St. Mary's ( 1945 ), which was made by McCarey's own production company, was similarly successful.

Milton Snavely Hershey ( September 13, 1857 – October 13, 1945 ) was an American confectioner, philanthropist, and founder of The Hershey Chocolate Company and the " company town " of Hershey, Pennsylvania.

The company was bought by property developer Charles Clore in 1945 and he sold it in 1947 to the bankers Lazard Brothers.

On 10 November 1945 at an extraordinary general meeting of the Société Anonyme des Avions Marcel Bloch the company voted to change its form to a limited liability entity, Société des Avions Marcel Bloch, which was to be a holding company.

He left in 1945 to do his military service which took him to Germany and Austria with the occupying forces, as well as making him a temporary member of a travelling theatre company, Les Arlequins.

1899 saw the start of the Kentucky Electrical Lamp Company, a light bulb manufacturing company which eventually was acquired by Kentucky Radio Company ( Ken-Rad ) in 1918 and later acquired by General Electric in 1945 and in 1987 acquired by MPD, Inc., created the light bulbs that illuminated the first night game in the history of Major League Baseball on May 24, 1935, between the Reds and Phillies at Cincinnati's Crosley Field.

Created in 1945, Matra ( Mechanics / Aviation / Traction ) was the company behind several technological projects: creating a twin-engine airplane prototype able to travel at 800 km / h, breaking the sound barrier at Mach 1. 4 in vertical flight for the first time in Europe.

Note: After 1945, Hermann was removed as head of company by Allied Forces to deal with war crime charges.