The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.

In 1947, affidavits were filed with the Commission by various clear-channel stations alleging that extensive interference was being caused to the service areas of these stations during daylight hours, from class 2, stations whose signals were being reflected from the ionosphere so as to create skywave intereference.

Foreseeing the possible threats to safety with the rapid growth of the sport, the industry has been supporting an intense, coordinated educational program with great success since 1947.

This illusion was described in a far-sighted editorial in The New York Herald Tribune, on March 5, 1947, in connection with the submission of the satellite peace treaties to the Senate.

Many of you are familiar, I'm sure, with the story of my early struggles: the fire in January, 1947, that destroyed everything -- even our precious list of subscribers.

In 1947, Poland founded a museum on the site of Auschwitz I and II, which by 2010 had seen 29 million visitors — 1, 300, 000 annually — pass through the iron gates crowned with the infamous motto, Arbeit macht frei (" work makes free ").

It was consolidated with other purchases as the Combined Insurance Co. of America in 1947.

* Brigadoon ( 1947 ), with Frederick Loewe

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.

In 1947, Jackie Robinson signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the color barrier that had prevented talented African American players from entering the white-only major leagues.

The strongest recorded earthquakes in the region occurred on 5 April 1959, with its epicentre at Saint-Paul-sur-Ubaye and a recorded intensity of 6. 5 at Barcelonnette, and on 17 February 1947, with its epicentre at Prazzo over the Italian border.

Bartók's music reflects two trends that dramatically changed the sound of music in the 20th century: the breakdown of the diatonic system of harmony that had served composers for the previous two hundred years ( Griffiths 1978, 7 ); and the revival of nationalism as a source for musical inspiration, a trend that began with Mikhail Glinka and Antonín Dvořák in the last half of the 19th century ( Einstein 1947, 332 ).

Pasternak gave his lover a book of Petőfi with the inscription, " Petőfi served as a code in May and June 1947, and my close translations of his lyrics are an expression, adapted to the requirements of the text, of my feelings and thoughts for you and about you.

In a June 5, 1947 speech, comporting with the Truman Doctrine, Marshall announced a comprehensive program of American assistance to all European countries wanting to participate, including the Soviet Union and those of Eastern Europe, called the Marshall Plan.

In England in the late 1940s, Ealing Studios achieved popular success as well as critical acclaim with a series of films known collectively as the " Ealing comedies ", from 1947 to 1957.

The Electricity Act 1947 introduced better retirement benefits for workers in that industry, and a Workers ’ Compensation ( Supplementation ) Act was passed in 1948 that introduced benefits for workers with certain asbestos-related diseases which had occurred before 1948.

In January, 1947, fear of Soviet and American intentions led to a secret meeting of senior cabinet ministers, where it was decided to press ahead with the development of Britain's independent nuclear deterrent, an issue which later caused a split in the Labour Party.

The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best ( 1759 ); Candide: or, The Optimist ( 1762 ); and Candide: or, Optimism ( 1947 ).

Following the 1947 season, the American League countered with a rule change that fixed the distance of an outfield wall for the duration of a season.

The Canadian Citizenship Act of 1947 provided for a distinct Canadian Citizenship, automatically conferred upon most individuals born in Canada, with some exceptions, and defined the conditions under which one could become a naturalized citizen.

Even so, armed Japanese troops remained in China well into 1947, with some noncommissioned officers finding their way into the Nationalist officer corps .< ref > Gillin, Donald G. and Etter, Charles.

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.

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 the autumn of 1947, Nkrumah was invited to serve as the General Secretary to the United Gold Coast Convention ( UGCC ) under Joseph B. Danquah.

It is named after Joseph Clearihue, who was chairman of Victoria College from 1947 until it gained university status in 1963.

* December 7 – Joseph Cook, sixth Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1947 )

* Joseph Belmont ( born 1947 ), Seychellois politician

* Joseph J. Mansfield ( 1861 – 1947 ), American Congress representative from Texas

* Joseph Conrad ( ship ): Mystic Seaport ( added 1947 )

In 1947, Joseph F. Walsh established a paper box factory in Wyandanch and Ignatius Davidson and Mortimer Cumberbach, expanded their C & D Cement Block factory-making it the largest African-American owned business in Suffolk County.

The event was started in 1947, through the efforts of Luke's Hot Pots Resort owners, Joseph B. and Pauline S. Erwin and was originally called Harvest Days.

( Other possible precursors are Monmouthshire-born Arthur Machen ( 1863 – 1947 ), and Joseph Keating ( 1871 – 1934 ), who began his working life as a South Wales miner.

Louis had two children by wife Marva Trotter ( daughter Jacqueline in 1943 and son Joseph Louis Barrow Jr. in 1947 ) and adopted three others.

He and his wife had five children, Christopher Joseph McCarthy ( April 30, 1940 – April 30, 1940 ), Eleanor McCarthy Howell ( born October 30, 1947 ), Mary Abagail McCarthy ( April 29, 1949 – July 28, 1990 ), Michael Benet McCarthy ( born April 5, 1952 ) and Margaret Alice McCarthy Brown ( born July 17, 1956 ).

* Birthplace of Michael Joseph Curley ( October 12, 1879-May 16, 1947 )-Catholic Archbishop and educationalist.

* February 1 — Joseph Allard, fiddler and composer ( d. 1947 )

* Joseph ' Joey ' Thompson-English Senior Amateur Billiards Champion 1936, 1947 and 1948.

In the 1947 study, Psychology of Rumor, Gordon Allport and Joseph Postman concluded that, " as rumor travels it [...] grows shorter, more concise, more easily grasped and told.

Lynn Joseph Frazier ( December 21, 1874January 11, 1947 ) was a politician from North Dakota, serving as a U. S. Senator from 1923 to 1941 and the 12th Governor of North Dakota from 1917 until being recalled in 1921.

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Georgia made several unsuccessful attempts to correct what Georgia felt was an erroneous survey line ' in the 1890s, 1905, 1915, 1922, 1941, 1947 and 1971 to " resolve " the dispute ', according to C. Crews Townsend, Joseph McCoin, Robert F. Parsley, Alison Martin and Zachary H. Greene, writing for the Tennessee Bar Journal, a publication of the Tennessee Bar Association, appearing on May 12, 2008.

Day and Henrietta had five children together: Lawrence ( b. 1935 ), Elsie ( 1939 – 1955 ), David " Sonny " Jr. ( b. 1947 ), Deborah ( 1949 – 2009 ), and Joseph ( b. 1950, later changed name to Zakariyya Bari Abdul Rahman ).

Sir Joseph Cook, GCMG ( 7 December 1860 – 30 July 1947 ) was an Australian politician and the sixth Prime Minister of Australia.

# John Joseph Cantwell ( 1936 – 1947 )

* † Joseph Carroll McCormick ( 1947 – 1960 )

* Thomas Joseph McDonough ( 1938 – 1947 )

# Michael Joseph Curley ( 1921 – 1947 ) died