The New Towns Act of 1946 set up development corporations to construct new towns, while the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 instructed county councils to prepare development plans and also provided compulsory purchase powers.

In addition, the 1947 Transport Act improved provision of rural bus services, while the Agriculture Act 1947 established a more generous subsidy system for farmers.

As a result of the Attlee Government ’ s initiatives in agriculture, there was a 20 % increase in output between 1947 and 1952, while Britain adopted one of the most mechanised and efficient farming industries in the world.

Lavelli was the league's top receiver in 1946, while Speedie won those honors in 1947 and 1949.

Dutch physicists Hendrik B. G. Casimir and Dirk Polder at Philips Research Labs proposed the existence of a force between two polarizable atoms and between such an atom and a conducting plate in 1947, and, after a conversation with Niels Bohr who suggested it had something to do with zero-point energy, Casimir alone formulated the theory predicting a force between neutral conducting plates in 1948 ; the former is called the Casimir-Polder force while the latter is the Casimir effect in the narrow sense.

Roughly a quarter of the contributors are deceased, some as long ago as 1947 ( Alfred North Whitehead ), while another quarter are retired or emeritus.

Orson Welles had notorious problems with financing, but his three film noirs were well budgeted: The Lady from Shanghai ( 1947 ) received top-level, " prestige " backing, while both The Stranger, his most conventional film, and Touch of Evil, an unmistakably personal work, were funded at levels lower but still commensurate with headlining releases.

Robinson was one of only two players during the span of 1947 – 56 to accumulate at least 125 steals while registering a slugging percentage over. 425 ( Minnie Miñoso was the other ).

Nehru, while a pacifist, was not blind to the political and geo-strategic reality of India in 1947.

In 1947, Chief Petty Officer Maurice Fargues became the first diver to die using an aqualung while attempting a new depth record with the GERS near Toulon.

It was while she worked as a laboratory technician in 1947 that she began writing science fiction.

His first story was published in 1947 while he was still an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, and he worked as a free-lance writer after his college graduation in 1948.

In 1947, while he was traveling by train to reach Schenectady from New York, after giving a talk at the conference at Shelter Island on the subject, Bethe completed the first non-relativistic computation of the shift of the lines of the hydrogen atom as measured by Lamb and Retherford.

He died after suffering a heart attack while taking a bath on June 26, 1947, at Mickleham.

* In an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ; " Little Green Men ", Quark, Rom and Nog are accidentally thrust back in time to Roswell in 1947 while on their way to Starfleet Academy.

The first images of Earth taken from space followed the same year while the first animal experiment saw fruit flies lifted into space in 1947, both also on modified V-2s launched by Americans.

See, for instance, the rabbinic category of Damages ( Jewish law ) ( note though that while a few aspects of this law are incorporated into Israeli law, tort law in Israel is technically similar to English tort law-as enacted by British Mandate of Palestine authorities in 1944 and taking effect in 1947, a year before Israel became a state ).

An Italian friar, Gabriele Maria Berardi, claimed to have performed an exorcism on Dalí while he was in France in 1947.

Her second marriage, in December 1947, was to the famous bass player Ray Brown, whom she had met while on tour with Dizzy Gillespie's band a year earlier.

In Mongolian, the region was called Dotugadu monggol during Qing rule and was renamed into Öbür Monggol in 1947, öbür meaning the southern side of a mountain, while the Chinese term nei menggu was retained.

The act, still effective, was sponsored by Senator Robert Taft and Representative Fred A. Hartley, Jr. and became law by overcoming U. S. President Harry S. Truman's veto on June 23, 1947 ; labor leaders called it the " slave-labor bill " while President Truman argued that it was a " dangerous intrusion on free speech ," and that it would " conflict with important principles of our democratic society ," Nevertheless, Truman would subsequently use it twelve times during his presidency.

Adept's Gambit would not see publication until 1947, while The Lords of Quarmall would be finished by Leiber and published in 1964 and The Tale of the Grain Ships would become the prototype for " Scylla's Daughter " ( 1961 ) and, later, the novel The Swords of Lankhmar ( 1968 ).

* 1947: Maurice Fargues becomes the first diver to die using an aqualung while attempting a new depth record with Cousteau's Undersea Research Group near Toulon.

Britten wrote Albert Herring for the English Opera Group in 1947, and it was while on tour that Pears came up with the idea of mounting a Festival in the small Suffolk seaside town of Aldeburgh, six miles from Snape, where Britten had now moved to a house on Crag Path.

He also attempted to gain the favor of the Garde — renamed the Haitian Army ( Armée d ' Haïti ) in March 1947 — by promoting Lavaud to brigadier general and by seeking United States military assistance.

From 1947 to 1967, it followed the policy of absenteeism, which meant that the Commission would concentrate on promoting human rights and helping states elaborate treaties, but not on investigating or condemning violators.

Sam Berman's caricature of Ed Gardner as the bartender Archie on Duffy's Tavern was published in NBC's 1947 book promoting the network's top stars.

He still had the ear of the Prime Minister, and enjoyed promoting the careers of candidates with potential, but was no longer a major political player as he had been until 1947.

In 1947, the Venetian businessman Antonio Fanna founded the Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi, with the composer Malipiero as its artistic director, with the purpose of promoting Vivaldi's music and putting out new editions of his works.

In 1947, Orson Welles began promoting the notion of bringing a Shakespeare drama to the motion picture screen.

Making the American Mind: Social and Moral Ideas in the McGuffey Readers ( 1947 )

Making the American Mind: Social and Moral Ideas in the McGuffey Readers ( 1947 )

In 1947, Marx was chosen to host a radio quiz program You Bet Your Life broadcast by ABC and then CBS, before moving over to NBC radio and television in 1950.

You Bet Your Life debuted in October 1947 on radio on ABC ( which aired it from 1947 – 49 ), sponsored by costume jewelry manufacturer Allen Gellman ; and then on CBS ( 1949 – 50 ), and finally NBC, continuing until May 1961 — on radio only, 1947 – 1950 ; on both radio and television, 1950 – 1960 ; and on television only, 1960-1961.

Yet to secure a place at the table, in 1947 ABC submitted requests for licenses in the five cities where it owned radio stations ( which together represented 25 percent of the entire nationwide viewing audience at the time ).

They were popular on radio throughout the 1940s, primarily on their own program which ran from 1942 until 1947 on NBC and from 1947 to 1949 on ABC.

In 1947 Abbott and Costello moved the show to ABC ( the former NBC Blue Network ).

debuted June 8, 1947 on the Mutual Broadcasting System, and its last episode was broadcast June 25, 1949, on the ABC.

It was first shown at the ABC Cinema on 11 January 1947 for a group of invited guests.

The September 1947 ABC Guide shows 27 passenger flights a week west across the North Atlantic to the US and Canada on BOAC and other European airlines and 151 flights every two weeks on Pan Am, AOA, TWA and TCA.

* Chris Wallace ( born 1947 ), newscaster at ABC, NBC, and Fox News

The show debuted on ABC Radio in October 1947, then moved to CBS Radio in September 1949 before making the transition to NBC-TV in October 1950.

In 1947, he created what was arguably his finest radio effort, Quiet, Please, which began over the Mutual Broadcasting System network but which later moved to ABC.

This was followed in 1947 by Blinky Bill's ABC Book and A Tiny Story of Blinky Bill, also published by Offset.

Campanis ' remarks took place on the late-night ABC News program Nightline, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's Major League Baseball debut ( April 15, 1947 ).

This was the first World Series televised by the ABC network since 1949, and the first since television of the Series started in 1947 not to be televised, at least in part, by rival network NBC.

The ABC Guide for September 1947 shows six flights a week from Sydney to England: three Lancastrians that took 77 hr 30 min to Heathrow and three flying boats that took 168 hr 55 min to Poole.

Like WTMJ when that station started in 1947, as the only station in the market, WBAY originally carried programming from all four networks of the day -- CBS, NBC, ABC and DuMont, with a primary CBS affiliation.

The program aired on ABC from June 12, 1947, to December 30, 1949.

From 1947 to 1953, Arnold starred in the ABC radio program called Mr. President.

Ann Compton ( born January 19, 1947 ) is an American news reporter and White House correspondent for ABC News Radio.

In 2011, Year 9 and 10 Drama Students at Toodyay District High School, in Western Australia, re-dramatised an updated version of the original 1947 ABC Radio play ' Six From Borneo ' with help from the Toodyay community, including Toodyay Community Radio, the Shire of Toodyay and Toodyay RSL.

On 9 September 2011, audio excerpts of the original recording were played on ABC radio ( WA Perth 720 ) for the first time since 1947, along with audio excerpts of the rerecording.