* New Plans For Panama, by Stephen L. Freeman 1947 article about possible post World War II plans for the Panama Canal including first mention of a sea level canal to replace the locks

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Ronald (" Ron ") J. Freeman II ( born June 12, 1947 ) is a former American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x400 m relay at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

In 1947, he and Bardu Ali opened the Barrelhouse Club in the Watts district of Los Angeles, California.

In 1947, Charles's family moved to Watts, a largely black neighborhood in South Los Angeles.

In her 1947 book, his ex-wife Jane Watts Fisher quoted him as replying, when she had hoped that he would slow down at some point, " I don't have time to take time.

* John Arthur Watts ( born 1947 ), British MP from Slough

During the early years Centralia College prepared students who would later go on to enroll at the University of Washington and a special partnership between the colleges remained in place until 1947.

He is best known for his series of film collaborations with Michael Powell, in a multiple-award-winning partnership known as The Archers and produced a series of classic British films, notably 49th Parallel ( 1941 ), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ), A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946, also called Stairway to Heaven ), Black Narcissus ( 1947 ), The Red Shoes ( 1948 ), and The Tales of Hoffmann ( 1951 ).

It was a partnership between Trist's group at the Tavistock, and Lewin's at MIT that launched the Journal ' Human Relations ' just before Lewin's death in 1947.

Bruhn took the first of his frequent sabbaticals from the Danish company in 1947, dancing for six months with the short-lived Metropolitan Ballet in England, where he formed his first major partnership, with the Bulgarian ballerina Sonia Arova.

A longtime friend of William Tubman, the president of Liberia, he helped form ( 1947 ) and headed as board chairman the Liberia Company, a partnership between the Liberian government and American financiers to provide funds for the development of that African nation.

Together, Ruby and Kalmar formed a successful songwriting team until the latter's death in 1947, and this partnership is portrayed in the 1950 MGM musical Three Little Words starring Fred Astaire as Kalmar and Red Skelton as Ruby.

Bates ' finest playing days came between 1947 and 1951 when he formed a great partnership with Charlie Wayman.

This led to the 1947 creation of the first transistor, in partnership with John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and others.

* Highest partnership for any wicket in first-class cricket ( 577 runs with Gul Mahomed for Baroda against Holkar in the final of the Ranji Trophy at Baroda in 1947.

In 1947 the partnership was dissolved, and in 1953 William Dreyer Jr. took over and changed the name to Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream.

The first ship was purchased in partnership with Harris and Dixon ( based in London ) in 1947.

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

The contracting parties who founded the WTO ended official agreement of the " GATT 1947 " terms on 31 December 1995.

During the Second World War, Finland fought twice against the Soviet Union and defended its independence, though in the process it in the 1947 peace settlement ended up ceding a large part of Karelia and some other areas to the Soviet Union.

In November 1947, a short democratic period of Thailand was ended by a 2490 military coup.

In 1947, the Soviet-Romanian border set along the Prut River was internationally recognised by the Paris Treaty that ended World War II.

When British rule over India ended in 1947, so too did Britain's association with Bhutan.

Nevertheless, in February 1946 Rodriguez left New Mexico to join Williams in his New Orleans apartment and they lived and traveled together until late 1947 when Williams ended the affair.

Soon after the adoption of the Constitution of Japan in 1947, the Chinese Civil War ended in victory for the Communist Party of China in 1949 and the establishment of the People's Republic of China.

Since British assistance to Turkey had ended in 1947, the U. S. dispatched military aid to ensure that Turkey would retain chief control of the passage.

Some are very short ( a week to ten days ) whereas others can stretch into months and years ( the 1947 eruption started March 29, 1947 and ended April 1948 ).

Passenger service ended in 1938, and the last freight train ran in 1947.

By 1947, food rationing had ended, but agricultural production was barely above the 1940 level by 1952.

In 1947, he was facing material constraints, and Ananda Coomaraswamy found him a job as a French-language teacher in the United States, at a school in Arizona ; the arrangement ended upon Coomaraswamy's death in September.

( Duruflé's first marriage to Lucette Bousquet, contracted in 1932, ended in civil divorce in 1947 and was declared null by the Vatican on 23 June 1953.

The biographical film of 1947, The Fabulous Dorseys describes sketchy details of how the brothers got their start from-the-bottom-up into the jazz era of one-nighters, the early days of radio in its infancy stages, and the onward march when both brothers ended up with Paul Whiteman before 1935 when The Dorsey Brothers ' Orchestra split into two.

* The Cold War, ( began with the Truman Doctrine in 1947 and ended with the official dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 ), is a phrase denoting a polarized state of hostility between economically capitalist NATO allied nations and economically communist Warsaw Pact nations.

He remarried, on 29 March 1947, to Wendy Orme, and they had a daughter, Angela, and another child who died as a baby in 1948 ; but this marriage also ended in divorce in Reno, Nevada in 1953 and in Britain in 1971.

British national service ended with victory in 1945 but was reimposed ( for men only ) in 1947 to enlarge the armed forces, first for an 18-month term, then for two years.

The radio producer Charles Maxwell had contracted Edwards, together with Joy Nichols and Dick Bentley, for the final series in 1947 of the radio show Navy Mixture for which Muir had provided some scripts, and after this show ended Maxwell received a commission for a new weekly comedy series to star Edwards, Nichols and Bentley.

Starting in about 1947, a revival in folk choir music began, ended as an honest force by 1950, when state-run art became dominant with the rise of Communism.

* Field Information Agency ; Technical ( FIAT ): US Army agency for securing the " major, and perhaps only, material reward of victory, namely, the advancement of science and the improvement of production and standards of living in the United Nations, by proper exploitation of German methods in these fields "; FIAT ended in 1947, when Operation Paperclip began functioning.

In 1947, the marriage also ended in divorce, lapsing Burgos into further depression and alcoholism.

After the war ended, in 1946 and 1947, South Plains was used as a storage facility for excess aircraft prior to their reclamation.