In 1949, the company developed magnetic recording tape and in 1950, sold the first tape recorder in Japan.

Robert ( Bob ) M. Frankston ( born June 14, 1949 in Brooklyn New York ) is the co-creator with Dan Bricklin of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program and the co-founder of Software Arts, the company that developed it.

But Sheedy was unable to pay his bills and in 1949 turned his masters over to his record stamping company, the Circle Record Company, owned by Max and Sol Weiss.

The company was registered again in West Germany as Auto Union GmbH in 1949, first as a spare-part provider, but soon to take up production of the RT 125 motorcycle and a newly developed delivery van, called a Schnellaster F800.

Put out, like other Mann – Alton noirs, by the small Eagle-Lion company, it was the direct inspiration for the Dragnet series, which debuted on radio in 1949 and television in 1951.

In September 1949 Orwell invited his accountant Harrison to visit him in hospital, and Harrison claimed that Orwell then asked him to become director of GOP Ltd and to manage the company but there was no independent witness.

HK was founded by engineers Edmund Heckler, Theodor Koch, and Alex Seidel in 1949 from the remnants of the Mauser company ; the company was registered in 1950.

The insurance industry in China was nationalized in 1949 and thereafter offered by only a single state-owned company, the People's Insurance Company of China, which was eventually suspended as demand declined in a communist environment.

Zuse founded another company, Zuse KG in Haunetal-Neukirchen in 1949 ; in 1957 the company ’ s head office moved to Bad Hersfeld.

Paramount Pictures Corporation was formed to be the production distribution company, with the 1, 500-screen theater chain handed to the new United Paramount Theaters on December 31, 1949.

Porsche's company logo was based on the coat of arms of Free People's State of Württemberg of former Weimar Germany, which had Stuttgart as its capital and became part of Baden-Württemberg after the political consolidation of West Germany in 1949.

The company also had mines in the UK in Nenthead, a village in Cumbria, which were worked from 1896 until 1949.

Her mother, Billie ( née Early ), is an import-export agent, and her father, Emilio Diaz ( 1949 – 2008 ), worked for the California oil company UNOCAL for more than 20 years as a field gauger.

The company's name was changed to Blackburn Aircraft Limited in 1939, and the company amalgamated with General Aircraft Limited in 1949 as Blackburn and General Aircraft Limited, reverting to Blackburn Aircraft Limited by 1958.

In 1949 the company started making trucks, trailers and buses, changing its name to Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek ( Van Doorne's Automobile Factory ).

Battleground is a 1949 American war film that tells the story of a company in the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division trying to cope with the Siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.

The company was nationalised in 1949 and became part of the South Eastern Gas Board.

The coal fired Sunbury power plant was commissioned by the Pennsylvania Power & Light company in 1949.

* Deutsche Bundesbahn, the national railway company of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 until 1994

Gielgud quickly rose to the status of being one of the top directors for Binkie Beaumont's H. M. Tennent, Ltd. production company in London's West End Theatre and later on Broadway, his productions including Lady Windermere's Fan ( 1945 ), The Glass Menagerie ( 1948 ), The Heiress ( 1949 ), his own adaptation of The Cherry Orchard ( 1954 ), The Potting Shed ( 1958 ), Five Finger Exercise ( 1959 ), Peter Ustinov's comedy Half Way Up a Tree ( 1967 ), and Private Lives ( 1972 ).

The castle was sold to another estate company which sold it to the Belgian Government in 1949.

The company changed its name to Britvic in 1971 after its successful brand, which was launched in 1949.

In 1949, following his receipt of the Deburau Prize ( established as a memorial to the 19th century mime master Jean-Gaspard Deburau ) for his second mimodrama, Death before Dawn, Marceau founded Compagnie de Mime Marcel Marceau, the only company of pantomime in the world at the time.

Chiang resigned as President on January 21, 1949, as KMT forces suffered bitter losses and defections to the Communists.

In 1949, the insurgents suffered a major blow, as Yugoslavia closed its borders following the split between Marshal Josip Broz Tito with the Soviet Union.

In 1949, while working on the new version of Land of Black Gold ( the first version had been left unfinished by the outbreak of World War II ), Hergé suffered a nervous breakdown and was forced to take an abrupt four month-long break.

A planned tour of Australia and New Zealand was postponed after the King suffered an arterial blockage in his right leg, which was operated on in March 1949.

After Williams suffered a heart attack in 1948, his health began to decline, and after 1949 a series of strokes followed.

Over the last two centuries the town suffered from many destructive floods, including notable floods in 1832, 1873, 1907, 1937, 1949, 1964 and 1968.

For the same period, 1949 – 1953, Jordan maintained that it alone suffered 629 killed and injured from Israeli incursions and cross-border bombings.

Having suffered at least 27 million casualties during World War II after being invaded by Nazi Germany in 1941, the Soviet Union was wary of its former ally, the United States, which until late 1949 was the sole possessor of atomic weapons.

Dodds returned to Chicago after the European tour and while taking a trip to New York in April 1949, he suffered a stroke.

A post office was established on July 12, 1898 with John Hawksly as its first postmaster, but the settlement suffered over the following decades as a result of several epidemics and a 1949 flood.

On 7 March 1949, a fire spread from the library roof ; over 300 printed books and the manuscripts on exhibition were completely destroyed, and over 3, 000 books needed repair, though the main structure suffered little damage and restoration took less than a year.

Louise suffered a nervous breakdown following these deaths and died in 1949.

He decided to take a year off, but it did more for his health ( he suffered from hypertension ) than his career ; after the June 26, 1949 show, on which Henry Morgan and Jack Benny guested, Fred Allen never hosted another radio show full time again.

In 1949 Martha suffered a severe stroke which left her an invalid ; after her stroke Taft faithfully assisted his wife, even helping to feed and take care of her at public functions, a fact which, his admirers noted, belied his public image as a cold and uncaring person.

The record wicket-taker in a single season was Tribe, whose 148 wickets in 1949 were a record at the time for the Central Lancashire League ( equalled in the same season by George Pope, who took 148 for Heywood and later beaten by Dattu Phadkar with 154 for Rochdale in 1955 ); the historian of the Leagues, John Kay, wrote that Tribe " suffered badly from indifferent fielding " at Milnrow.

Lupino claims she “… did not set out to be a director ,” but it was a reality she had to face when her first directing job came unexpectedly in 1949 when Elmer Clifton suffered a mild heart attack and could not finish Not Wanted, a film she co-produced and co-wrote.

In 1949, Yamauchi's grandfather, the incumbent president of Nintendo, suffered a stroke.

Originally an apolitical writer, he suffered a breakdown after the Communist Revolution in 1949 and the subsequent restrictions on writing.

In 1949, the National Revolutionary Army and the Kuomintang suffered a major defeat in the Chinese Civil War, forcing the Government of the Republic of China to relocate to Taiwan.

The Trojans had a chance to repeat in 1949, but were eliminated when they suffered a pair of extra-inning losses to Wake Forest, both by 2 – 1 scores.

This achievement was even more remarkable in light of the series of major earthquakes, landslides, and floods suffered by Ecuador in 1949 and 1950.

He was arrested again in January 1949, after picking up a 16-year-old hitchhiker who remained anonymous until years later, when he filed a lawsuit claiming he had suffered severe mental, physical and emotional damage from the encounter.

Having suffered a stroke after a gliding accident a few years after the end of the war, Lord Londonderry died on 10 February 1949 at Mount Stewart, County Down, aged 70.

In later years, he suffered with high blood pressure, the result of his driving commitment to ITMA, and died suddenly on 9 January 1949 from a brain hemorrhage, 8 days before his 57th birthday.