Evidence suggests a third release in 1938, consisting of toads being used for human pregnancy tests — many species of toad were found to be effective for this task, and were employed for about 20 years after the discovery was announced in 1948.

* 1948 – The formal creation of the Korean People's Army of North Korea is announced.

Carías, who by then was in his early seventies, ultimately yielded to these pressures and announced October 1948 elections, in which he would refrain from being a candidate.

It was invented by Dr. John N. Shive ( more famous for his wave machine ) at Bell Labs in 1948, but it wasn't announced until 1950.

On 11 April 1948, Miller Burrows, head of the ASOR, announced the discovery of the scrolls in a general press release.

Personnel for the Seattle Symphony were announced in the press on October 24, 1948, and included a few musicians who had chosen not to defect to the Seattle Orchestra and some new faces as well.

The Mandate would be terminated as soon as possible and the United Kingdom would withdraw from Palestine no later than the previously announced date of 1 August 1948.

On 11 December 1947 Britain announced the Mandate would end at midnight 14 May 1948 and its sole task would be to complete withdrawal by 1 August 1948.

On 11 December 1947 Britain announced the Mandate would end at midnight 14 May 1948 and its sole task would be to complete withdrawal by 1 August 1948.

In 1948 an architectural design competition was announced for an indoor arena with the project name Valhalla Inomhusarena (), the winning design was presented by a work group led by architect Poul Hultberg, who was working for Nils Olsson's architect firm in Gothenburg.

In 1948, Abe Green, the National Boxing Association President, announced that they were indefinitely suspending Graziano in all parts of the world under NBA supervision, following similar action by the California State Athletic Commission.

On 20 January 1948, Mackenzie King announced his intent to resign.

The prizes were announced through a government press advertisement published in June 1948.

The banner headlines of the Palestine Post on 23 April 1948 announced " Haifa Pivotal Points fall to Haganah forces in 30 hour battle "... the report continued that Haganah crushed all resistance, occupied many major buildings forcing thousands of Arabs to flee by the only open route-the sea ".

Latham had served on the London Passenger Transport Board ( LPTB ) since 1935, and, within a month of his resignation as Leader of the LCC, his appointment as chairman of the London Transport Executive ( LTE ), which was to replace the LPTB from 1 January 1948, was announced by the Labour Government on 20 August 1947.

Mayor David L. Lawrence had publicly announced plans for a " civic theater " as early as February 8, 1953 after years of public pressure had built after CLO president, civic leader and owner of Kaufmann's department store Edgar J. Kaufmann announced his intention on December 1, 1948 to find a new home for the group.

For a few years after independence in 1948 Nu retained the prefix ' Thakin ', but around 1952 he announced that since Burma was already independent the prefix of ' Thakin ' was no longer needed and henceforth he would be known as U (' Mr ') Nu.

The results were announced on February 27, 1948.

In June 1948, Prime Minister Ben Chifley announced the approval for construction of a new AU £ 760, 000 airport at Llanherne.

They announced his " death " to War Crimes Group in London in January 1948.

In April 1949, the winner of the Stalin Prize for 1948 was announced.

Mr. Truman has only to recall the `` hopeless '' campaign of 1948 to remember what a loyal partisan he was and the first experience of Mr. Kennedy with Congress would have been sadder than it was had not Mr. Sam been there.

The original 1948 Master Plan included a Third Harbor Tunnel plan that was hugely controversial in its own right because it would have disrupted the Maverick Square area of East Boston.

In Czechoslovakia, that required a Soviet-backed Czechoslovak coup d ' état of 1948, the brutality of which shocked Western powers more than any event so far and set in a motion a brief scare that war would occur and swept away the last vestiges of opposition to the Marshall Plan in the United States Congress.

From 1948 – 1960, $ 200 million in Soviet aid would be given to Albania for technical and infrastructural expansion.

Lang, Bennett, and her husband, Universal veteran and Diana production head Walter Wanger, would make Secret Beyond the Door ( 1948 ) in similar fashion.

One was an independent distributed by MGM, the industry leader: Force of Evil ( 1948 ), directed by Abraham Polonsky and starring John Garfield, both of whom would be blacklisted in the 1950s.

Whilst Schwitters still created work in an expressionist style into 1919 ( and would continue to paint realist pictures up to his death in 1948 ), the first abstract collages, influenced in particular by recent works by Hans Arp, would appear in late 1918, which Schwitters dubbed Merz after a fragment of found text from the sentence Commerz Und Privatbank in his picture Das Merzbild, Winter 1918 – 19.

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.

He framed this deportation as an " exchange of populations " that would continue the Jewish exodus from Arab lands: " A total of some 750, 000 Jews fled Arab lands since 1948.

This conflict would come to be very significant in the aftermath of World War Two when Burma was granted its independence from Great Britain in 1948.

Other events which would powerfully affect Opel's future were taking place in 1948.

Had the president ordered an atomic attack in 1947 or 1948, the 509th Composite Bomb Group would have needed five or six days to obtain the bombs from the Atomic Energy Commission and arrive at the base it would attack from.

As a result of the 1948 Palestine War, most of the territory was unilaterally incorporated as Jordanian-controlled territory in the West Bank and residents would later receive Jordanian passports.

Both attempts ( in 1948 and 1968 ) failed, but not by much — in both cases a shift in the result of two close states would have forced the respective elections into the House.

Fry insisted that Grace would not have started the 1948 season with any notion of being beaten by that season's Australian touring team, for " he was sanguine " and would have put everything he could muster into the task of beating them with no acceptance of defeat " till after it happened ".

Marshall felt that if the state of Israel was declared that a war would break out in the Middle East ( which it did in 1948 one day after Israel declared independence ).

He told President Truman in May 1948, " If you ( recognize the state of Israel ) and if I were to vote in the election, I would vote against you.

DuMont and NBC would be joined by CBS and ABC in 1948.

A member of Doriot's fascist Parti Populaire Français from age 20, Maurice Duverger completed his studies in from the Bordeaux Department of Law in 1942, before lecturing in law at Poitiers in 1942, and Bordeaux in 1943 ( where he would, in 1948, found the Institut d ' Études Politiques as its first director ).

He was, later events would prove, a Republican, but in 1948 he flatly refused the nomination of any political party.