In 1948, the Mitchell Reel Company of Cluses, France introduced the Mitchell 300, a spinning reel with a design that oriented the face of the fixed spool forward in a permanently fixed position below the fishing rod.

The Margaret Mitchell Library, built in 1948, is today the home of the Fayette County Historical Society and houses Civil War and genealogical records.

From 1948 to 1972, he was an agriculture librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he had gained a master's degree in library science, became a professor, and raised a son, Mitchell, and daughter, Linda with his wife Sally.

* Larry Carlton ( born 1948 ), studio guitarist most known for working with Steely Dan, the Crusaders and Joni Mitchell in the 1970s

:* In 1948, Supreme recorded in Los Angeles and released A Little Bird Told Me, written by Harvey Oliver Brooks ( 1899 – 1968 ), sang by Paula Watson ( 1927 – 2003 ), who is African American, accompanied by guitarist Mitchell " Tiny " Webb, and others.

* Ctenophorus maculosus Mitchell, 1948 – Lake Eyre Dragon, Salt-Lake Ground-dragon

* Tympanocryptis intima ( Mitchell, 1948 ) – Gibber Earless Dragon

* Tympanocryptis pinguicolla ( Mitchell, 1948 ) – Grassland Earless Dragon

* Tympanocryptis uniformis ( Mitchell, 1948 ) – Even-scaled Earless Dragon

* William Mitchell ( philosopher ) ( 1861 – 1962 ), University of Adelaide Professor, Vice Chancellor and Chancellor, 1942 – 1948

* Western Australia: Sir James Mitchell ( 5 October 1948 )

The first Australian-( and Western Australian -) born Governor of Western Australia was Sir James Mitchell ( appointed 1948 ).

In 1948, Mitchell won election to the House of Representatives in the First Congressional District.

He was himself defeated two years later by Hugh Mitchell, a Democrat, in 1948.

Wesley Clair Mitchell ( August 5, 1874 – October 29, 1948 ) was an American economist known for his empirical work on business cycles and for guiding the National Bureau of Economic Research in its first decades.

From 1948 to 1971, he designed panels for the Corn Palace in Mitchell.

Mitchell is also known for his role as Col. Rufus Plummer in Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair ( 1948 ), as Gregory Peck's commanding officer in the war drama Twelve O ' Clock High ( 1949 ), and as movie mogul " R. F. Simpson " in the musical comedy Singin ' in the Rain ( 1952 ).

Among his films are Ride the Pink Horse ( 1948 ), Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid ( 1948 ), Flamingo Road ( 1949 ), White Heat ( 1949 ), Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ), A Place in the Sun ( 1951 ), How to Marry a Millionaire ( 1953 ), The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell ( 1955 ), How to Be Very, Very Popular ( 1955 ), Daddy Long Legs ( 1955 ), Auntie Mame ( 1958 ), and Visit to a Small Planet ( 1960 ).

Mitchell was stationed on the Island of Guam between 1948 – 1952 for the U. S. military during the Korean War.

* Oliver Mitchell 1939 – 48 ( also attended the school, then head of Royal Grammar School, Newcastle from 1948 – 60 )

Sir William Mitchell ( 27 March 1861 – 24 June 1962 ) was Professor of English Language, Literature and Mental and Moral Philosophy at the University of Adelaide from 1894 – 1922, Vice-Chancellor 1916 – 1942 and Chancellor 1942 – 1948.

On November 18, 1999, Patricia Morison attended the opening night performance of the equally successful Kiss Me, Kate Broadway revival which starred Brian Stokes Mitchell as Fred / Petruchio and Marin Mazzie as Lilli / Katharine ( the role Morison herself originated in 1948 ).

In May 1948 Thomas and his family moved to his final home, the Boat House at Laugharne purchased for him at a cost of £ 2, 500 in April 1949 by Margaret Taylor, first wife of historian A. J. P. Taylor.

Graduating in 1948, he moved his family to West Texas and entered the oil business, becoming a millionaire by the age of 40.

From 1948 to 1951, 30, 972 Libyan Jews moved to Israel.

Originally located in London, the commission moved to its current headquarters in Geneva in 1948.

In 1948, hoping to gain more success, Perez Prado moved to Mexico City and started his own band, where he composed and recorded most of mambos.

For instance, the 1948 ABL finalist Baltimore Bullets moved to the BAA and won that league's 1948 title, and the 1948 NBL champion Minneapolis Lakers won the 1949 BAA title.

In 1948 he moved to the Carnegie Institute of Technology ( now Carnegie Mellon University ) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, becoming a full professor in 1957.

In 1948, after the college had moved to the Auditorium Building, Washington was elected the third president of Roosevelt's student council.

In 1948, ENIAC was moved from the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering, where it had been conceived and designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, to the Ballistic Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, Maryland.

The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is sometimes referred to as a Soviet satellite, though it broke from the Soviet Union in the 1948 Tito-Stalin split, with the Cominform offices being moved from Belgrade to Bucharest, and subsequently initiated formation of the Non-Aligned Movement.

In 1948 Bonetti's family moved from London to Worthing on the Sussex coast.

He graduated in 1948 and moved to New York City, where he initially worked as a stand-up comic.

He moved to Darien, Connecticut, in 1948.

The UNTSO's HQ was moved, shortly after its creation, to Haifa ( British enclave in this time ), in late June 1948.

With the return of UN peacekeeping forces to Israel on 21 July 1948 the Headquarters for UNTSO was moved again on October 7, 1948 for the third and final time to Government House Jerusalem.

In 1948, the Lakers moved from the NBL to the Basketball Association of America ( BAA ), and Mikan's 28. 3 point per game ( ppg ) scoring average set a BAA record.

It was there that Sauvé met Maurice Sauvé, and the two married on September 24, 1948, the same year the couple moved to London ; Maurice had obtained a scholarship to the London School of Economics and Sauvé worked as a teacher and tutor.

JAARS was originally formed in Peru in 1948 and moved to North Carolina in 1961.

In 1948, the school was relocated to St. Mary's, and many families moved from the old school site to Alakanuk.

Nanini and his wife, Giaconda, moved to Tucson in 1948 seeking to cure Giaconda Nanini's bronchial asthma.

The post office moved into Henry County on October 19, 1948, with John C. Cottrell as postmaster.

* Phyllis Hill ( 1948 – 1953 ): Ferrer and Hill wed on May 27, 1948, and they moved to Burlington, Vermont in 1950, where they subsequently found it difficult to keep their marriage together.