Placed into the Department of the Interior when that department was formed in 1849, it merged with the United States Grazing Service ( established in 1934 ) to become the Bureau of Land Management on July 16, 1946.

* National Health Service Act 1946

The Dutch Public Health Service provides medical care for the natives of the Dutch East Indies, May 1946

Instead ' the two shortwave stations were nationalised in 1946 and renamed as Radio Netherlands Worldwide, the Dutch International Service.

Douglas Smith ( c. 1910-15 October 1972 ) began his broadcasting career with the BBC European Service ( now the World Service ) in 1946 and later worked as an announcer and newsreader on the Home Service and the Third Programme.

On the " appointed day ", 5 July 1948, having overcome political opposition from both the Conservative Party and from within his own party, and after a dramatic showdown with the British Medical Association, which had threatened to derail the National Health Service scheme before it had even begun, as medical practitioners continued to withhold their support just months before the launch of the service, Bevan's National Health Service Act of 1946 came into force.

In 1946, Duvalier aligned himself with President Dumarsais Estimé and was appointed Director General of the National Public Health Service.

* Air Technical Service Command, 16 November 1945 – 31 March 1946

The Dutch Public Health Service provides medical care for the natives of the Dutch East Indies, May 1946

* Gifford Pinchot ( 1865 – 1946 ) was the first Chief of the United States Forest Service ( 1905 – 1910 ) and the Governor of Pennsylvania ( 1923 – 1927, 1931 – 1935 ).

* Homer's Texaco Service Station, located at the North East corner of the intersection of Louisiana Highway 86 and Lake Dauterive Road ( Louisiana Highway 3242 ) the family-owned business was in continuous operation from 1946 until the late 1990s.

:: The United States Army Seventh Service Command exercised overall jurisdiction until 11 June 1946

* Robert Gallucci ( 1946 -), former US Ambassador at Large ( 1994 – 1996 ), currently Dean of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University ( graduated Brentwood HS in 1962 )

In 1946 Melvin Kively established the first businesses at the Hadlock intersection-a second hand store and a Signal Service Station.

* Edward Victor Grace Day ( 1896 – 1958 ), Malaya Civil Service, Resident Commissioner of Malacca from ( 1946 – 1947 ), and British Adviser, Kedah ( 1947 – 1951 ).

He also loved flying, and owned among other aircraft a 1945 Stearman tail number N3188 ( his student number in reform school ), a 1946 Piper J3 Cub, and an award-winning 1931 Pitcairn PA-8 biplane, once flown as part of the U. S. Mail Service by famed World War I flying ace, Eddie Rickenbacker.

See, e. g., Spector Motor Service v. O ' Connor, 340 U. S. 602 ( 1951 ); Freeman v. Hewit, 329 U. S. 249 ( 1946 ).

On 11 June 1946, Army Service Forces and the nine service commands areas it administered were abolished as the result of a long planned, post-war reorganization and downsizing.

* November 29 – Pinwright's Progress ( UK ), British television's first sitcom, debuts on the BBC Television Service ( 1946 – 1947 ).

His wife, Pamela Summers ( whom he married in 1946 ) was a ballerina who was born in Nanking, China where her father was a commissioner in the Chinese Postal Service.

The National Health Service Act 1946 came into force in 1948 and created the modern day National Health Service.

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.