Much of this work has been reviewed by White ( 1944 ) and by Albert ( 1949 ).

The CPC defeated the Nationalists in 1949, forcing Chiang's government to retreat to Taiwan, where Chiang imposed martial law and persecuted people critical of his rule in a period known as the " White Terror ".

Kaye starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940s, and is well known for his roles in films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), On the Riviera ( 1951 ) co-starring Gene Tierney, Knock on Wood ( 1954 ), White Christmas ( 1954, in a role originally intended for Fred Astaire, then Donald O ' Connor ), The Court Jester ( 1956 ), and Merry Andrew ( 1958 ).

Ealing Studios ( financially backed by J. Arthur Rank ) embarked on their series of celebrated comedies, including Whisky Galore ( 1948 ), Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ) and The Man in the White Suit ( 1951 ).

Walsh had no great name recognition during his half-century as a working director, but his noirs White Heat ( 1949 ) and The Enforcer ( 1951 ) had A-list stars and are seen as important examples of the cycle.

Notable performers there included among others: Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Burl Ives, Leadbelly, Anita O ' Day, Charlie Parker, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Paul Robeson, Kay Starr, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Josh White, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, and The Weavers, who also in Christmas 1949, played at the Village Vanguard.

As Minister for Immigration ( 1949 – 1956 ), Holt was responsible for the relaxation of the White Australia policy and as Treasurer under Menzies he initiated major fiscal reforms including the establishment of the Reserve Bank of Australia and launched and guided the process to convert Australia to decimal currency.

* 1949 – Hamish Stuart, Scottish musician ( Average White Band )

The traditional cocktail known as a Black Russian, which first appeared in 1949, becomes a White Russian with the addition of cream.

", The Big Sleep directed by Howard Hawks ( 1946 ), The Lady Eve directed by Preston Sturges ( 1941 ), The Shop Around the Corner directed by Ernst Lubitsch ( 1940 ), White Heat directed by Raoul Walsh ( 1949 ), Yankee Doodle Dandy directed by Michael Curtiz ( 1942 ), and Notorious directed by Alfred Hitchcock, ( 1946 ).

* Ragazze in bianco ( Girls in White, 1949 )

The first sounding rocket flights for X-ray research were accomplished at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico with a V-2 rocket on January 28, 1949.

From 1949 to 1966, most Academy Awards for Best Costume Design in Black and White were given to a contemporary movie.

* Bennett, Joseph, of Robert Graves ' The White Goddess: a Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Hudson Review, vol. 2 ( 1949 ), 133-138

Uranium was discovered outside what is now Litchfield ’ s eastern boundary in August 1949, by a local prospector, Jack White.

* White Heat ( 1949 )

Moosup's claim to fame is that it is the boyhood hometown of Walt Dropo, During a 13-year career in Major League Baseball, he played for the Boston Red Sox ( 1949 – 1952 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1952 – 1954 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1955 – 1958 ), Cincinnati Redlegs ( 1958 – 1959 ) and Baltimore Orioles ( 1959-1961 ).

Four of his early novels were made into films: Snowbound ( 1948 ) from The Lonely Skier ( 1947 ), Hell Below Zero ( 1954 ) from The White South ( 1949 ), Campbell's Kingdom ( 1957 ) from the book of the same name ( 1952 ), and The Wreck of the Mary Deare ( 1959 ) also from the book of the same name ( 1956 ).

A White semi performed a major role in the 1949 James Cagney film, " White Heat ".

In 1949, the BBC bought Lime Grove Studios as a " temporary measure " – as they were to build Television Centre at nearby White City – and began converting them from film to television use, reopening them on 21 May 1950.

( 1949 ), Passport to Pimlico ( 1949 ), Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ), The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ), The Man in the White Suit ( 1951 ), The Titfield Thunderbolt ( 1953 ) and The Ladykillers ( 1955 ) are now seen as classics of British cinema.

The Armed Forces Medical Publication Agency, established in 1949, has published, since January 1950, The United States Armed Forces Medical Journal as a triservice publication to furnish material of professional interest to Medical Department officers of the three military services.

These publications replaced the U. S. Naval Medical Bulletin, published continuously from 1907 through 1959, as well as the Navy's Hospital Corps Quarterly and the Bulletin of the U. S. Army Medical Department, published from 1922 to 1949.

George Orwell's classic dystopia Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in 1949.

In 1949 Marker published his first novel, Le Coeur net ( The Forthright Spirit ), which was about aviation.

In 1949, the World Health Organization published the sixth revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases ( ICD ) which included a section on mental disorders for the first time.

( The title is a reference to Lost in the Andes !, a Donald Duck story by Carl Barks, first published in April, 1949.

Also important was forester and ecologist Aldo Leopold, one of the founders of the Wilderness Society in 1935, who wrote a classic of nature observation and ethical philosophy, A Sand County Almanac, published in 1949.

" Farmer Giles of Ham " is a Medieval fable written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1937 and published in 1949.

For the next four years Orwell mixed journalistic work – mainly for Tribune, The Observer and the Manchester Evening News, though he also contributed to many small-circulation political and literary magazines – with writing his best-known work, Nineteen Eighty-Four, which was published in 1949.

In June 1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four was published to immediate critical and popular acclaim.

It was then simplified in 1947, when Leon Henkin observed in his Ph. D. thesis that the hard part of the proof can be presented as the Model Existence Theorem ( published in 1949 ).

The undated first issue, published in December 1953, featured Marilyn Monroe from her 1949 nude calendar shoot and sold over 50, 000 copies.

Phillip Emmons Isaac Bonewits ( October 1, 1949 – August 12, 2010 ) was an influential American Druid who published a number of books on the subject of Neopaganism and magic.

The ICD-6, published in 1949, was the first to be shaped to become suitable for morbidity reporting.

* 1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.

Greenberg is widely known for his development of a new classification system for the languages of Africa, which he published as a series of articles in the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology from 1949 to 1954 ( reprinted together as a book in 1955 ).

This tale of hidden telepathic abilities was Katherine MacLean's first story to see print when it was published in Astounding Science Fiction ( October, 1949 ).

Supported in part by grants from the Council on Library Resources, William J. Barrow conducted research into paper decay and found that no more than three percent of the books published between 1900 and 1949 would survive more than fifty years.

In a series of articles published between 1949 and 1954, he argued that Westermann's ' West Sudanic ' and Bantu formed a single genetic family, which he named Niger – Congo ; that Bantu constituted a subgroup of the Benue – Congo branch ; that Adamawa – Eastern, previously not considered to be related, was another member of this family ; and that Fula belonged to the West Atlantic languages.

Shannon delivered his results in a classified report in 1945, and published them openly in 1949.

The History and Social Influence of the Potato, Cambridge University Press ( originally published in 1949 ; reprinted 1985 with new introduction and corrections by J. G.

The first complete translation from Persian into the modern Japanese language was made by Ryosaku Ogawa in 1949, which is still popular and has been published from Iwanami Shoten ( it is now under public domain and also freely available from Aozora Bunko ).

In 1949 she published “ Some Clinical Remarks Concerning the Treatment of Cases of Male Homosexuality ” in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.