By the summer of 1947, however, the KSČ's popularity had significantly dwindled, and most observers believed Gottwald would be turned out of office at the elections due for May 1948.

Brando achieved stardom, however, as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams's 1947 play A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Elia Kazan.

Reformist policies, however, did not enjoy a consensus, and by 1947 the country had entered into a civil war, which in turn initiated a period of economic chaos that lasted until the mid-1950s.

* Jack Williamson's 1947 novella With Folded Hands features the phrase Prime Directive prominently, however in this context it refers to the attempts by a race of humanoid robots to make all of humanity happy, which leads to a form of pampered slavery.

Estimates of the number of Arabs displaced from their original homes, villages, and neighborhoods during the period from December 1947 to January 1949 range from about 520, 000 to about 1, 000, 000 ; there is general consensus, however, that the actual number was more than 600, 000 and likely exceeded 700, 000.

He never served his sentence, however ; before he could be incarcerated, he suffered a heart attack and died on 30 December 1947.

Rhubarb is usually considered to be a vegetable ; however, in the United States, a New York court decided in 1947 that since it was used in the United States as a fruit, it was to be counted as a fruit for the purposes of regulations and duties.

The project stalled for four years, however, until May 1947, when the United States Army Air Forces awarded Martin Aircraft Company a contract for a turbojet powered subsonic missile, the Matador.

The most popular Tatra truck before World War II was type T27 powered by 4-cylinder petrol or diesel engines and remained in production for nearly 17 years ( 1930 – 1947 ) with total production of 7, 620 units, by adding an extra axle to the rear the type T28 was created however, it was not successful and only limited production resulted in a mainly bus chassis.

Maximilian Kaller ( 10 October 1880 – 7 July 1947 ) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Ermland () in East Prussia from 1930 – 1947, however, de facto expelled since mid-August 1945 he served as special bishop for the homeland-expellees until his death.

In 1947, however, Warner served as a " friendly witness " for the House Un-American Activities Committee ( HUAC ), thereby lending support to allegations of a " Red " infiltration of Hollywood.

In 1954, however, special linguistic facilities were given to local French-speakers ( according to an official census, they were more than 30 % in 1947 ).

Between 1945 – 1947 they postulated about ten memorials to the UN, USA, USSR, Great Britain, France, Poland and Czechoslovakia, however, it did not bring any results.

In 1947, however, he placed third in his district after a strategy targeting rural voters.

Towards the end of 1945 Tudor proposed that an international choral festival be added to the 1947 Welsh National Eisteddfod, however the Council of the National Eisteddfod felt that as all their effort were involved in rebuilding their own organisation they could not take on such a scheme.

Before the Americans left the Brocken in 1947, however, they disabled the rebuilt weather station and the television tower.

Official Indonesian presidential decrees from the period 1947 – 1968, however, printed his name using the 1947 spelling.

Public Law 81-36, 2 April 1949, originally established this position as the Under Secretary of Defense, however Public Law 81-2 16, August 10, 1949, a. k. a. the 1949 Amendments to the National Security Act of 1947, changed the title to Deputy Secretary of Defense.

It should be noted, however, that the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 ( that applies only when there is neither a President nor a Vice President able to discharge the powers and duties of the office ) makes reference to the oath, albeit in an indirect manner.

Any other officer acting as President, however, would ( per the terms of the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 ) serve out the remainder of the Presidential term as acting president, instead of becoming President.

The Air National Guard was officially established in law as a separate reserve component on 18 September 1947, however, National Guard aviation emerged before World War I with aviation units in Army National Guard organizations.

18 September 1947, however, is considered the ANG ’ s official birth concurrent with the establishment of the United States Air Force as a separate branch of the United States military under the National Security Act.

A later US radio version by the Theatre Guild in 1947 featured Rathbone with Wendy Hiller and Catherine Rowan, his co-star from a contemporary Broadway production.

During the McCarthy Era in 1947, when US Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin claimed that the federal government and other institutions were riddled with Communists, the US House began hearings about purported communist influence in Hollywood.

In 1947 he moved to the US, on a fellowship at Cornell University and thence joined the faculty there as a physics professor in 1951 without a PhD.

The US retained control of Haiti's external finances until 1947.

However, the new geopolitical logic of the Cold War made possible that the former enemy Italy, a hinge-country between Western Europe and the Mediterranean, and now a new, fragile democracy threatened by the proximity of the Iron Curtain and the presence of a strong Communist party, was considered by the USA as an important ally for the Free World, and received under the Marshall Plan US $ 1, 204 million from 1947 to 1951.

By 1947, there would be approximately 22, 000 motor courts in operation in the US alone ; a typical 50-room motel in that era cost $ 3000 per room in initial construction costs, compared to $ 12, 000 per room for metropolitan city hotel construction.

From 1947 until 1977, the United States supplied about US $ 750, 000 worth of military hardware each year and trained more than 2, 000 Paraguayan military officers in counter-intelligence and counterinsurgency.

In 1947, Ryan X-13 Vertijet, a tailsitter design, was ordered by the US Navy, who then further issued a proposal in 1948 for an aircraft capable of vertical takeoff and landing ( VTOL ) aboard platforms mounted on the afterdecks of conventional ships.

Williams and Kilburn applied for British patents on Dec. 11, 1946 and Oct. 2, 1947, followed by US patent applications on Dec. 10, 1947 () and May 16, 1949 ().

Commencing operations on 25 June 1946, it approved its first loan on 9 May 1947 ( US $ 250M to France for postwar reconstruction, in real terms the largest loan issued by the Bank to date ).

This was the largest one-month fall in prices in the US since at least 1947.

From 1926 to 1947 in the US, the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railway carried motor carrier vehicles and shippers ' vehicles loaded on flatcars between Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Chicago, Illinois.

One of the inventors of side-scan sonar was German scientist, Dr. Julius Hagemann, who was brought to the US after World War II and worked at the US Navy Mine Defense Laboratory, Panama City, FL from 1947 until his death in 1964.

His work at the Commission, and in particular his dealings with the representatives of the Soviet Union, resulted in appointments to the US delegations to the UN in 1946 and 1947.

As it happened, separate negotiations on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) moved more quickly, with an agreement signed in October 1947 ; in the end, the US never signed the ITO agreement.

* Mark Dayton ( born 1947 ), Current governor of Minnesota and former US Senator

* Olympia Snowe ( b. 1947 ), US Senator from Maine

* Dennis Danvers ( b. 1947 ), US author

It was funded originally by a US $ 25, 000 gift from Edsel Ford but by 1947 after the death of the two founders, the foundation owned 90 percent of the non-voting shares of the Ford Motor Company ( the Ford family kept the voting shares to themselves ).

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.

* Lesley Bush ( born 1947 ), US Olympic Diver, first US gold in diving 1964, teacher at Grover Middle School.