In 1939, Pius XII turned the Vatican into a centre of aid which he organized from various parts of the world At the request of the Pope, an information office for prisoners of war and refugees operated in the Vatican under Giovanni Battista Montini, which in the years of its existence from 1939 until 1947 received almost 10 million ( 9, 891, 497 ) information requests and produced over 11 million ( 11, 293, 511 ) answers about missing persons.

The grassroots world federalist movement in the US, led by people such as Grenville Clark, Norman Cousins, Alan Cranston and Robert Hutchins, organized itself into increasingly larger structures, finally forming, in 1947, the United World Federalists ( later renamed to World Federalist Association, then Citizens for Global Solutions ), claiming membership of 47, 000 in 1949.

In 1947, area peach growers organized the Louisinaa Fruit Growers Association and held the first festival four years later on June 27 – 28, 1951.

The university converted the hospital into apartments, a local government was organized, and Adair Village post office established in 1947.

In 1947 it was organized as the LaGrange Community Church.

Headquarters, 200th antiaircraft Artillery Group, organized and federally recognized 25 September 1947 at Roswell.

With the dissolution of the erstwhile princely states and the Indian independence movement reaching its conclusion in 1947, Carnatic music went through a radical shift in patronage into an art of the masses with ticketed performances organized by private institutions called sabhās.

The Conservative Baptist Association of America was organized in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1947.

The 49th Armored Division — nicknamed the Lone Star — was one of two armored divisions of the United States Army National Guard, redesignated from the 36th Infantry Division ( the " T-Patchers ") after World War II, and organized and federally recognized on 24 February 1947.

In April 1947, Gleason organized the First Festival of Modern Poetry at the Lucien Labaudt Gallery, Gough Street.

In New Hampshire, a local variant that has been subject to organized tournament play since 1947 in the Queen City Pool League, is called " around-the-world " or " roundy " for short.

* College of Fine Arts ( schools of art, music, and theatre arts organized in 1929, 1946, 1947 respectively )

Congress investigated Elliott numerous times: for the attempted sale of bombers to the USSR ( 1934 ); for allegations of broadcast industry corruption ( 1937-45 ); for the Blaze affair ( his dog ’ s travel on emergency war priority, 1945 ); for his promotion to general, demanded by his father ( 1945 ); for the Hartford loan scandal ( 1945 ); for his denunciation of U. S. foreign policy during a visit to the USSR ( capped with a visit with Stalin ) ( 1946 ); for the Hughes F-11 purchase ( 1947 ); and for involvement with organized crime and securities fraud in Miami and the Bahamas ( 1973 ).

In 1947, he organized the Cominform, designed to coordinate the communist parties of Europe.

His later poetry — darkening in social satire, reformatory zeal against capitalism and organized religion, and despair over the war — was published as Í byggðum ( 1933 ; “ Among Human Habitations ”), Að norðan ( 1936 ; “ From the North ”), Ný kvæðabók ( 1947 ; “ A New Book of Poems ”), and the posthumous Síðustu ljóð ( 1966 ; “ Last Poems ”).

The Mont Pelerin Society was created on 10 April 1947 at a conference organized by Friedrich Hayek ( Friedrich August von Hayek ).

The 1932 law was implemented only once, as the invasion of Belgium by Nazi Germany in 1940 prevented the organization of the decennial census, which was organized in 1947 and applied only on July 2, 1954, when an ad hoc law modifying the law of June 28, 1932 on the use of languages for administrative matters transferred three previously unilingual Flemish municipalities with language facilities to the French-speaking minority ( Evere, Ganshoren and Berchem-Sainte-Agathe / Sint-Agatha-Berchem ) to the bilingual region of Brussels, thus and introduced language facilities for the French-speaking minority in four previously unilingual Flemish municipalities ( Drogenbos, Kraainem, Wemmel and Linkebeek ).

As a result, massive strikes were organized between 1945 and 1947, demanding wage increases and the legalization of union organizations.

In 1947, the first divisional pathfinder platoon was organized in the Headquarters Company, 82d Airborne Division.

In 1947 an official institution, the Landsnemda for Bunadspørsmål, was organized to act in an advisory capacity on all questions dealing with bunads in Norway.

The North American Football Confederation also organized the NAFC Championship in 1947 and 1949, which was revived in 1990 and 1991, after 41 years of absence, before the introduction of the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

He organized the Union Démocratique et Sociale Gabonaise ( UDSG ) in 1947, whose leadership came mostly from the interior, particularly Woleu-Ntem Province.

In October 1947, Judge Kennon entered the 1948 gubernatorial primary election as a self-proclaimed candidate " independent of contending political faction ," referring to Long and anti-Long groups then organized in state politics.

Due to World War II, the rally was canceled, but the event organized for 1947 was the revival of the Gypsy Tour in Hollister.

The first Blue Angel Flight Demonstration Squadron ( 1946 – 1947 ), assembled in front of one of their F6F Hellcat s ( l to r ): Lt. Al Taddeo, Solo ; Lt.

In 1994 / 5, the Air Force published a report which concluded that Mogul Flight # 4, launched from Alamogordo, New Mexico, on June 4, 1947, was what crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, and formed the source of the debris which sparked the Roswell UFO Incident.

Her historical novel Comme un vol de gerfauts ( 1947 ) was translated into English as A Flight of Falcons, and extracts from her essay ' Feminism or Death ' appeared in the 1974 anthology New French Feminisms.

* 1947: The Vicki Barr: Flight Stewardess book series, in which Vicki's career " brings her glamorous friends, exciting adventures, loyal roommates and dates with a hand some young pilot and an up-and-coming reporter ", sells well in the USA.

The early jet airliners possessed much lower levels of noise and vibration than contemporary piston-engined ones, so much so that in 1947, after piloting a jet powered aircraft for the first time, Wing Commander Maurice A. Smith, then-Editor of Flight magazine, stated ; " Piloting a jet aircraft has confirmed one opinion I had formed after flying as a passenger in the Lancastrian jet test beds, that few, if any, having flown in a jet-propelled transport, will wish to revert to the noise, vibration and attendant fatigue of an airscrew-propelled piston-engined aircraft "

* ' Flight ' Pilots a Jet-a 1947 Flight article on a first flight in a jet powered aircraft

It was renamed the Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory in 1947, the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in 1948 ( after George W. Lewis ( head of NACA from 1919 to 1947 ) and the NASA Lewis Research Center in 1958.

The International Civil Aviation Organization was formed in 1947 under the auspices of the United Nations, and it established Flight Information Regions ( FIRs ) for controlling air traffic and making airport identification simple and clear.

Star Dust's last flight was the final leg of BSAA Flight CS59, which had started in London on an Avro York named Star Mist on 29 July 1947, landing in Buenos Aires on 1 August.

The Flight Instructor Badge was declared obsolete in 1947 with the creation of the United States Air Force, at which time all USAF flight instructors became full-time, active-duty pilots.

The Marine Aerial Navigator insignia is similar in appearance to the Naval Flight Officer insignia and is considered a " successor " to the Naval Aviation Observer ( Navigation ) insignia, issued between March 1945 and March 1947.

Post-war, RAF Andover continued to be used for helicopter flying training and operational research, C Flight of 657 Squadron, Army Air Corps, being renamed 1901 Flight in February 1947.

Beginning in 1947 the base hosted the experimental X planes, initially by the Army Air Force Flight Test Division.

The Page recording was recorded on December 3, 1947, and released by Mercury Records as catalog number 5129, with the flip side “ Twelve O ' Clock Flight ” ( also later as catalog number 5511 ), and first reached the Billboard chart on July 2, 1948, lasting 10 weeks and peaking at # 12.

The unit was stood up on April 1, 1947 at RCAF Station Shearwater as the 103 Search and Rescue Flight.

Founded by Deborah Marie King ( 1947 – 2000 ), the Central Park Safety Program is a New York City Official Civilian Observation Patrol Program.

It was through the efforts of Father Alexander Buckler in 1904 that reconstruction of the Mission was undertaken, though major restoration was not possible until 1947 when the Hearst Foundation donated money to pay the for project.

The origin of what was to become Brandeis was closely associated with the name of Albert Einstein from February 5, 1946, when he agreed to the establishment of the Albert Einstein Foundation for Higher Learning, Inc., until June 22, 1947, when he withdrew his support.

Youth Foundation, in 1947 was recorded, and has appeared on numerous comedy albums.

In 1947, Herter founded the Middle East Institute with Middle East scholar George Camp Keiser ; during this same time period, he served on the board of trustees of the World Peace Foundation.

The 1947 creation of the nonprofit institute, originally named the Institute for Sex Research ( ISR ), was supported by both Indiana University president Herman B Wells and the Rockefeller Foundation, a major financial backer of Kinsey ’ s research.

In 1947, with Febvre and Charles Morazé, Braudel obtained funding from the Rockefeller Foundation in New York founded the famous Sixième Section for " Economic and social sciences " at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes.

Foundation of the FDJ in Berlin, November 1947

Although the Guggenheim Foundation specifically required a cel animation film, Fischinger made his Bach film Motion Painting No. 1 ( 1947 ) as a documentation of the act of painting, taking a single frame each time he made a brush stroke — and the multi-layered style merely parallels the structure of the Bach music without any tight synchronization.

The Governor of Southern Rhodesia established the Rhodesia University Foundation Fund in 1947.

ETS is a U. S .- registered 501 ( c )( 3 ) non-profit organization created in 1947 by three other nonprofit educational institutions: the American Council on Education ( ACE ), The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and The College Entrance Examination Board.

The widow of former President-elect Bachir Gemayel ( 1947 – 1982 ), who was assassinated days before he was due to take office in 1982, she helped to found the Bachir Gemayel Foundation, to keep his legacy alive.

The James G. Boswell Foundation is the charitable foundation established in 1947 by James Griffin Boswell ( May 13, 1882 – 1952 ), founder of the J. G. Boswell Company, a successful farm and agricultural supplies enterprise established in Corcoran, California in 1921.

* 1947: Fellowship of the Bollingen Foundation ( maintained until 1973 )

Eugene Franklin Mallove ( June 9, 1947 – May 14, 2004 ) was a scientist, science writer, editor, and publisher of Infinite Energy magazine, and founder of the non-profit organization New Energy Foundation.

* Princeton University-Woodrow Wilson Memorial Foundation Gold Medal award (" in recognition Of his contribution to public life "), May 1947

1947 saw the expansion of the medical research building using a five-year grant from the Riley Children's Foundation.

* Great Books Foundation is a nonprofit educational organization established in 1947 that publishes collections of classic and modern literature for use in book discussion clubs.

The Foundation, incorporated as an entity separate from the Grand Chapter in 1947, serves as the financial backbone of the fraternity.

In August 1947, the organization established for the creation of Dong-A College, along with Dr. Jae-hwan Jeong pen-named Sokdang as its leader, applied to the Ministry of Education for permission to establish the Dong-A Foundation.

It has occasionally been central to feature films, such as the Our Gang (" Little Rascals ") series, Ealing's Hue and Cry ( 1947 ) and some Children's Film Foundation films such as Go Kart, Go!

Between 1940 and 1947 the Rockefeller Foundation produced more than 28 million doses of the vaccine and finally ended yellow fever as a major disease.

The Walter F. George Foundation, created at Mercer when the university's law school was named in honor of George in 1947, continues to award scholarships to Mercer law students who plan to pursue careers in public service.

He became a leader of the B ' nai Brith Hillel Foundation, founded at the University of Illinois, serving as director of the Illinois sector from 1929 to 1933, national director of the Hillel Foundation from 1933 to 1947, and chairman of the National Hillel Commission from 1948 to 1955, when he retired to become president of Brandeis University.