T-33 Jet Trainers at Williams AFB, June 1949

* 1949 – The Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu in Nigeria go on strike over withheld wages ; 21 miners are shot dead and 51 are wounded by police under the supervision of the British colonial administration of Nigeria.

Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star | Lockheed F-80s of the 1st Operations Group | 1st Fighter Group, 1949.

Another short story of note with relationship to Caulfield is " The Boy in the People Shooting Hat ," which was submitted to The New Yorker sometime between 1948 and 1949 but was never published.

Lockheed P-80B Shooting Star: Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star Serial Number: 45-8612 Markings: 22nd Fighter Bomber Squadron, 36th Fighter Group, Furstenfeldbruck Air Base, Germany, 1949.

He served with the Agricultural Land Service division of the Ministry of Agriculture ( 1949 – 1955 ), was Senior Land Agent for Nature Conservancy in Scotland ( 1955 – 1967 ), member of the Countryside Commission ( Scotland ; 1968 – 1971 ), Chairman of the Red Deer Commission 1969-75, President of the British Association for Shooting and Conservation ( 1973 – 1992 ), President of the Scottish Landowners ' Federation ( 1974 – 79 ), and a member of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland ( 1976 – 2012 ), Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society ( 1980 – 1983 ), the RSGS ( 1983 – 2012 ); Federation of Agricultural Co-operatives ( UK ) Ltd ( 1983 – 2012 ); Deputy Chairman of the Nature Conservancy Council ( 1980 – 1985 ); and Chairman of the Advisory Committee for Scotland ( 1980 – 85 ).

* Avery made several non-sequels to the film, including Swing Shift Cinderella ( 1945 ), The Shooting Of Dan McGoo and Wild And Woolfy ( both 1945 and both featuring Droopy ), Uncle Tom's Cabaña ( 1947 ), and Little Rural Riding Hood ( 1949 ).

Shooting began in 1949, but was forced to shut down when finance dried up.

* P-80 Shooting Star ( later F-80 ) ( 1947 – 1949 )

Between July 1946 and Aril 1947 the squadron had a sleeping existence and being transferred to MAG-32 and later MAG-12 while consisting of one officer, but in 1949 VMF-311 became the first West Coast Marine jet squadron when it started flying the TO-1 Shooting Star.

G-AHNP Star Tiger disappeared on January 30, 1948 on a flight from the Azores to Bermuda ; G-AGRE Star Ariel disappeared on January 17, 1949, on a flight from Bermuda to Kingston, Jamaica.

He was replaced as the director of Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), but he went on to direct The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), A Star Is Born ( 1954 ) and My Fair Lady ( 1964 ).

His last radio series was The Texaco Star Theater, which began September 22, 1948 on ABC and continued until June 15, 1949, with Berle heading the cast of Stang, Kelton and Gallop, along with Charles Irving, Kay Armen, and double-talk specialist Al Kelly.

* Robert A. Heinlein repeatedly used Martians ( usually, human beings born and bred on Mars ) as characters in his novels and short stories, including Red Planet ( 1949 ), Double Star ( 1956 ), and Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ).

* 1949 ( 6 ) Greater Greensboro Open, Masters Tournament, Washington Star Open, Dapper Dan Open, Western Open, PGA Championship

* 1949 – Bethlehem Star Parade ( a multi church-organized Nativity parade and bands ) tradition begins in Van Nuys.

* 1949 Lone Star Gas established services in the county.

Brent Jay Spiner ( born February 2, 1949 ) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of the android Lieutenant Commander Data in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and four subsequent films.

In 1949, the Movie Star Company opened a plant in nearby Purvis, and soon opened a similar plant in Sumrall which provided stable employment for many local women until the 1990s.

* Armin Shimerman ( born 1949 ), actor, best known for playing the Ferengi bartender Quark in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Longhair first recorded in 1949, creating four songs ( including the first version of his signature song, " Mardi Gras in New Orleans ," complete with whistled intro ) for the Dallas, Texas based Star Talent label.

In 1949, it was renamed Cooke Barracks in honor of Charles H. Cooke, Jr. who had been posthumously awarded the Silver Star and Soldier's Medal for gallantry in action.

Texaco Star Theater is an American comedy-variety show, broadcast on radio from 1938 to 1949 and telecast from 1948 to 1956.

Texaco Star Theaters next hosts included James Melton ( 1944 – 1947 ), Tony Martin ( 1947 – 1948 ), Gordon MacRae ( 1948 ), Jack Carter ( 1948 ), and Milton Berle ( 1948 – 1949 ).

After the New York Star folded on January 28, 1949, Kelly arranged for syndication through the Hall Syndicate, which relaunched the strip in May 1949.

The Star launched radio station WDAF May 16, 1922, and television outlet WDAF-TV on October 19, 1949.

While enjoying success in the middle-of-the-road and pop fields, Eckstine occasionally returned to his jazz roots, recording with Vaughan, Count Basie and Quincy Jones for separate LPs, and he regularly topped the Metronome and Down Beat polls in the Top Male Vocalist category: He won Esquire magazine's New Star Award in 1946 ; the Down Beat magazine Readers Polls from 1948 to 1952 ; and the Metronome magazine award as " Top Male Vocalist " from 1949 to 1954.

He next worked for Sears, Roebuck and Company in the installation department from March 1948 to September 1949, when he moved to Lone Star, Texas, and attempted cattle raising.

In 1947 Cunard acquired the 38 % of Cunard White Star it did not already own, and on 31 December 1949 it acquired Cunard White Star's assets and operations, and reverted to using the name " Cunard.

During the 1949 federal election, the Toronto Star, which openly supported the Liberal Party, attempted to link the unpopular Houde with George Drew, then leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada even though Houde was running as an independent candidate against an official Progressive Conservative candidate.

* Gold Star ( 1946 ) → Kinsei Stars ( 1947 – 1948 ) → Daiei Stars ( 1949 ) ( present: Chiba Lotte Marines )

# Grumman F9F-2 Panther – 1949 – June 1950 ( first jet );

It nearly became the first jet transport in the world when it first flew in August 1949, a mere 13 days following the first flight of the de Havilland Comet.

Thiokol Corporation moved operations to Redstone Arsenal from Maryland in the summer of 1949 to research and develop rocket propellants, while Rohm and Haas began work on rockets and jet propulsion.

The first purpose-built jet airliner was the British de Havilland Comet which first flew in 1949 and entered service in 1952.

Also developed in 1949 was the Avro Canada Jetliner, and although it never reached production, the term jetliner caught on as a generic term for all passenger jet aircraft.

By early 1949, reconstruction of Itazuke was complete along the construction of long jet runways.

* Tu-82 " Butcher ": experimental swept-wing jet bomber, 1949

He developed some of the earliest jet engines and holds over 50 patents, many in jet propulsion, and is the inventor of the Underwater Jet ( TIME March 14, 1949 ), the Two Piece Jet Thrust Motor and Inverted Hydro Pulse.

In 1949, new runways were laid, and the following year Wattisham became home to the Gloster Meteor, the UK's first jet fighter.

The Blue Devils or the 410 ( F ) Squadron Aerobatic Team was a Royal Canadian Air Force ( RCAF ) aerobatic team that flew the de Havilland Vampire jet aircraft from 1949 to 1951.

The world ’ s first commercial jet airliner was the British de Havilland Comet ( 1949 ) designed with a service ceiling of.

Upon receiving jurisdiction of Stewart AFB in 1949, ConAC began an improvement of the World War II station facilities and expanded the airfield to accommodate jet aircraft, lengthening the runways and expanding the ramp, hangar and maintenance facilities at the base.

During the postwar years, the RAF retained Bentwaters for flying various aircraft, including first-generation jet aircraft before finally closing the facility on 26 August 1949 when it was placed into ' care and maintenance ' status.

* 468 — jet, project, 1948 .. 1949.