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

The 1948 Palestine war entered its second phase with the intervention of the Arab state armies and the beginning of the 1948 Arab – Israeli War.

In May 1948, a new constitution for the territory entered into force, allowing the largest amount of autonomy allowed under the Dutch constitution of 1922.

The town was not a field of battle during 1948 Arab-Israeli War before the first truce on 11 June, although some of the villagers had joined the loosely organized peasant military and paramilitary forces, and troops from the Arab Liberation Army had entered Nazareth.

At the beginning of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Egyptian forces entered the former British Mandate of Palestine from Sinai to support Palestinian and other Arab forces against the newly declared State of Israel.

When NASCAR was first formed by Bill France, Sr. in 1948 to regulate stock car racing in the U. S., there was a requirement that any car entered be made entirely of parts available to the general public through automobile dealers.

Officially the kinetoscope entered Europe when the rich American Businessman Irving T. Bush ( 1869 – 1948 ) bought from the Continental Commerce Company of Frank Z. Maguire and Joseph D. Baucus a dozen machines.

The large Ninth Chamber was first entered on 24 April 1948 by Balcombe and Don Coase.

Smale entered the University of Michigan in 1948.

In 1948, it entered into a partnership with 20th Century Fox subsidiary Fox Movietone News to shoot newsfilm for television stations.

He entered filmmaking on a whim, selling a script to RKO for the 1948 picture Bodyguard, which he co-wrote with George W. George.

In 1948, Stevenson entered the Illinois gubernatorial race as a Democrat, and in an upset victory he defeated incumbent Republican Dwight H. Green in the Truman landslide.

While Alderney enjoys full autonomy in law ( except like the other Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, in matters of foreign affairs and defence ), under the provisions of a formal agreement ( known as " the 1948 Agreement ") entered into between the Government of Alderney and the Government of Guernsey, certain matters have been delegated to Guernsey.

A Formula One version of the Tipo 125, the Ferrari 125 F1 was developed in 1948 and entered in several Grand Prix, at the time a World Championship had not yet been established.

Plimpton entered Harvard as a member of the Class of 1948, but did not graduate until 1950 due to intervening military service.

In 1948 Chapman started with the Mk1, a modified Austin 7, which he entered privately into local racing events.

Moss, who raced from 1948 to 1962, won 212 of the 529 races he entered, including 16 Formula One Grands Prix.

When he entered Columbia University School of General Studies Savalas took courses including English language, radio, and psychology, graduating in 1948.

On 20 June 1948 Israeli soldiers entered the village of Mi ' ar and shot indiscriminately against the villagers while they were working in their fields.

In 1948, Scholastic entered the school book club business with its division T. A. B., or Teen Age Book Club with classic titles priced at 25 cents.

After completing national service he entered King's College, Cambridge in 1948, to read Classics.

The Israel Defence Forces entered Lydda on July 11, 1948.

The NF fought on a platform of opposition to communism and liberalism, support for Ulster loyalism, opposition to the European Economic Community, and the compulsory repatriation of new Commonwealth immigrants who had entered Britain courtesy of the British Nationality Act, 1948.

The Secretary of the Treasury, upon the concurrence of the Secretary of State, is authorized and directed, out of the sum covered into the Yugoslav Claims Fund pursuant to subsection ( B ) of this section, after completing the payments of such funds pursuant to subsection ( C ) of this Section, to make payment of the balance of any sum remaining in such fund to the Government of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia to the extent required under Article 1 ( C ) of the Yugoslav Claims Agreement of 1948.

But under the direction of Mira Ziminska-Sygietynska, who with her late husband founded the organization in 1948, it has all been put into theatrical form, treated selectively, choreographed specifically for presentation to spectators, and performed altogether professionally.

The Bronx once had its own daily newspaper, The Bronx Home News, which started publishing on January 20, 1907 and merged into the New York Post in 1948.

National Party government in 1948, which instituted apartheid, and South Africa's withdrawal from the Commonwealth in 1961, ended any prospect of incorporation of the territories into South Africa.

Korea had been divided at the end of World War II along the 38th parallel into Soviet and U. S. occupation zones, in which a communist government was installed in the North by the Soviets, and an elected government in the South came to power after UN-supervised elections in 1948.

The inability of Li to coordinate KMT military forces led him to put into effect a plan of defense that he had contemplated in 1948.

" Philip Larkin in a letter to Kingsley Amis in 1948, wrote that " no one can ' stick words into us like pins '... like he can ", but followed that by stating that he " doesn't use his words to any advantage ".

When he appeared at the London Palladium music hall in 1948, he " roused the Royal family to shrieks of laughter and was the first of many performers who have turned English variety into an American preserve.

He first came into wide public acclaim with the release of Notre prison est un royaume (" Our Prison is a Kingdom ") in 1948, and Il est minuit, docteur Schweitzer (" It is midnight, Doctor Schweitzer ") in 1950.

The Nederlandse Seintoestellen Fabriek ( NSF ) company established a professional transmitter and radio factory in Hilversum in the early 1920s, growing into the largest of its kind in the Netherlands, and in 1948 being taken over by Philips.

Clause 3. provided that " Independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem ... shall come into existence in Palestine two months after the evacuation of the armed forces of the mandatory Power has been completed but in any case not later than 1 October 1948.

Until Yugoslavia's expulsion from the Cominform in 1948, Albania acted like a Yugoslav satellite and Tito aimed to use his choke hold on the Albanian party to incorporate the entire country into Yugoslavia.

TERMINATION OF MANDATE, PARTITION AND INDEPENDENCE: Clause 3. provides :- Independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem, ..., shall come into existence in Palestine two months after the evacuation of the armed forces of the mandatory Power has been completed but in any case not later than 1 October 1948.

Blues and Reds contested local elections into the 1920s, but Islandwide party politics lay dormant until the post-Occupation elections under the new Constitution of 1948.

* 1948 – The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force ( WAF ).

Adenauer's leading role in the CDU of the British zone won him a position at the Parliamentary Council of 1948, called into existence by the Western Allies to draft a constitution for the three western zones of Germany.

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.

In 1948, the Federal Capital Territory of Pakistan was created, comprising approximately of Karachi and surrounding areas, but this was merged into the province of West Pakistan in 1961.

* 1948 – Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.

Truman signed the Economic Cooperation Act into law on April 3, 1948 ; the Act established the Economic Cooperation Administration ( ECA ) to administer the program.

The Muslim population has grown, for a number of historical factors, that include the city having served as administrative center under British rule, and the influx of internally displaced Palestinians absorbed into the city from neighbouring towns during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

Between 1948 – 1950, the headquarters of the United Nations Reliefs and Works Agency ( UNRWA ) was located there and two years later, its owner turned it into a luxury hotel called " The New Orient House ".

* The Road to Rio ( 1947 ) and My Favorite Brunette ( 1948 ) were owned by Bob Hope Enterprises but the latter fell into the public domain after its copyright was not renewed.

Poor fiscal management after their appearance in the 1915 World Series, however, doomed the Phillies to sink back into relative obscurity ; from 1918 to 1948 they only had one winning season.