In 1946, Herald-Traveler Corporation acquired Boston radio station WHDH.

In 1946 National City Lines ( NCL ), a General Motors holding company, acquired 64 % of Key System stock ; during the next several years NCL engaged in the conspiratorial dissolution of Oakland's electric streetcar system.

Falling under papal influence, Sardinia becomes the focus of the rivalry of Genoa and Pisa, comuni and Signorie, the Giudicati and the Crown of Aragon, which subsumed the island as the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1324, which was to last until 1718 when it was acquired by the House of Savoy, which later, in 1861, became the Kingdom of Italy and finally in 1946 the Italian Republic.

Some of Valparaíso's Pullman trolleybuses are even older, built in 1946 – 48, having been acquired secondhand from Santiago in the 1970s.

Website: http :// www. broadcreekbsa. org / Broad Creek land was first acquired in 1946.

In 1946, the company was acquired by Capitol, and continued to produce Capitol Records through the end of the vinyl era.

Following the adoption of the Charlton Comics name in 1946, the company over the next five years acquired material from freelance editor and comics packager Al Fago ( brother of former Timely Comics editor Vincent Fago ).

TAA acquired its first two aircraft in mid-June 1946, both Douglas DC-3s.

In 1946 the firm acquired the Rock Island refinery and crude oil gathering system near Duncan, Oklahoma.

In 1946 Wood River Oil Co. ( a precursor company to Koch Industries ) purchased Rock Island Oil and Refining Co. As a part of the transaction, it acquired a crude-oil pipeline in Oklahoma.

It was also during the 1946 season that Musial acquired his nickname of " The Man ".

The Cierva Autogiro Company rented portions of the Cunliffe-Owen plants starting in 1946, and had to move to another location on the field when it was acquired by Briggs.

By 1946, the company acquired 64 % of the stock in the Key System which operated electric trains and streetcars in Oakland, California.

In 1993 Republic won a landmark legal decision reactivating the copyright on Frank Capra's 1946 RKO film It's a Wonderful Life ( under NTA, they had already acquired the film's negative, music score, and the story on which it was based, " The Greatest Gift ").

*, a Liberty ship, launched in May 1943 ; acquired by the War Department in November 1943, renamed United States Army hospital ship USAHS Dogwood ; converted to a troop transport USAT George Washington Carver in January 1946 ; scrapped in 1964 in Oakland, California.

In 1946 the discovery was made public and the treasure acquired by the British Museum ; Roald Dahl wrote an article about the find which was published firstly in the Saturday Evening Post, and later as " The Mildenhall Treasure " in his short story collection The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More.

In 1946, the town of Mission, British Columbia acquired the rights to the Western Canada Soapbox Derby Championships and the Mission Regional Chamber of Commerce, previously named the Mission City & District Board of Trade, organized the event annually until 1973.

* was acquired in 1940 as a fleet oiler, converted to an escort aircraft carrier in 1942, and in service until 1946.

*, a fleet oiler acquired in 1941, converted to an escort aircraft carrier in 1942 and in service until 1946

The majority of the heath was acquired in a single purchase in 1946.

*, a Mark III Tank Landing Ship acquired in 1946 and placed into reserve later that year.

Some commentators maintain that because the Government based the levels of compensation for former railway shareholders on the valuation of their shares in 1946 ( when the whole railway infrastructure was in a run-down and dilapidated state because of war damage and minimal maintenance ) the railways were acquired comparatively cheaply.

In September 1946, he moved to Peterson Residence, a disaffected aviation camp acquired by McGill University in Lachine.

In 1946, Warner Brothers acquired a substantial interest in ABPC, appointed a new board and decided to rebuild the stages.

During the 1946 season, when the 53d WRS acquired the RB-29 ( later WB-29 ) Superfortress as its primary aircraft, the term " Hurricane Hunters " was first used to describe its missions.

In 1931 Mrs. F. H. Briggs, agent and chief operator, who was to retire in 1946 with thirty years' service, led agency offices in sales for the year with $2,490.

Among the observers of the 1946 tsunami at Hilo was Francis P. Shepard of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, one of the world's foremost marine geologists.

Since the 1946 disaster there have been 15 tsunami in the Pacific, but only one was of any consequence.

He was in charge of the Hockaday School meals from 1946 to 1950, before he moved to Aj.

Schweitzer's pedal piano was still in use at Lambaréné in 1946.

It was not a Turing complete computer, which distinguishes it from more general machines, like contemporary Konrad Zuse's Z3 ( 1941 ), or later machines like the 1946 ENIAC, 1949 EDVAC, the University of Manchester designs, or Alan Turing's post-War designs at NPL and elsewhere.

In Ireland, Shane Butler said that AA “ looks like it couldn ’ t survive as there ’ s no leadership or top-level telling local cumanns what to do, but it has worked and proved itself extremely robust .” Butler attributed this to " AA ’ s ' inverted pyramid ' style of governance has helped it to avoid many of the pitfalls that political and religious institutions have encountered since it was established here in 1946.

Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.

It was repaired in 1946, but it was damaged several times more.

LORAN station Baker was a radio operations base in operation from September 1944 to July 1946.

From 1946 through 1985, the army was divided into four numbered armies: the First Army was centered in Rio de Janeiro, the Second Army in São Paulo, the Third Army in Porto Alegre, and the Fourth Army in Recife.

The award was established in 1940 by the Chicago chapter of the BBWAA, which selected an annual winner from 1940 through 1946.

Hill Top Farm was opened to the public by the National Trust in 1946 ; her artwork was displayed there until 1985 when it was moved to William Heelis ’ s former law offices in Hawkshead, also owned by the National Trust as the Beatrix Potter Gallery.

It was nationalised in 1946.

In 1946, shortly after the end of Norman's tenure, the bank was nationalised by the Labour government.

György Sándor was the soloist in the first performance of the Third Piano Concerto on February 8, 1946.

While two-piece bathing suits had been worn on the beach before, the modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Réard in 1946.

According to the current Nobel Committee head Lars Gillensten, his nominee was discussed every year from 1946 to 1950, then again in 1957 ( it was finally awarded in 1958 ).

It was formed in 1946, making it the second oldest formal flying aerobatic team ( flying under the same name ) in the world, after the French Patrouille de France formed in 1931.

The original team was christened the Blue Angels in 1946, when one of the pilots came across the name of New York City's Blue Angel Nightclub in The New Yorker magazine ; the team introduced themselves as the " Blue Angels " to the public for the first time on 21 July 1946, in Omaha, Nebraska.