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1949 and insurgents
Finally, in August 1949, the National Army under Marshal Alexander Papagos launched an offensive that forced the remaining insurgents to surrender or flee across the northern border into the territory of Greece's northern Communist neighbors.
By 1949 the Civil War was effectively over, with the Communist insurgents ceasing the majority of their operations, and the task of rebuilding the shattered north of the country began.

1949 and suffered
Chiang resigned as President on January 21, 1949, as KMT forces suffered bitter losses and defections to the Communists.
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 the company suffered a financial crisis which resulted in Rank reporting an annual loss of £ 3, 500, 000, forcing the Organisation to sell its Lime Grove and Islington studios.
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.

1949 and major
The first major model for communication was introduced by by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver for Bell Laboratories in 1949 The original model was designed to mirror the functioning of radio and telephone technologies.
From the end of 1949, new transmitters were steadily opened to serve other major conurbations, and then smaller areas of population.
Fishing vessels were major post-war users, but it was also used on aircraft, including a very early ( 1949 ) application of moving-map displays.
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.
Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.
In the fall of 1949, the NCS cooperated with Treasury Department to sell savings bonds, engaging in a nationwide tour to 17 major cities with a team of 10 to 12 cartoonists and a traveling display, 20, 000 Years of Comics, a 95-foot pictorial history of the comic strip.
When the talent agency Music Corporation of America ( better known as MCA ), then wielding major influence on Paramount policy, offered $ 50 million for 750 features released prior to December 1, 1949 ( with payment to be spread over many years ), a cash-strapped Paramount thought it had made the best possible deal.
Combination of reforestation efforts ( e. g. Arbor day was celebrated as a national holiday starting in 1949 ) and policies designed to reduce use of firewood as a source of energy ( e. g. restriction of inflow of firewood into Seoul and other major cities starting in 1958 ) helped to spark a recovery in the 1950s.
However, the use of vetoes is limited by convention and by the operation of the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949: the Lords may not veto the " money bills " or major manifesto promises ( see Salisbury convention ).
On June 27, 1981, the Central Committee adopted the " Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China " ( The Resolution ), an official assessment of major historical events since 1949.
Mao ’ s " Intellectual " Marxist development can be divided into five major periods: ( 1 ) The Initial Marxist Period from 1920 – 1926 ; ( 2 ) the formative Maoist period from 1927 – 1935 ; ( 3 ) the mature Maoism period from 1935 – 1940 ; ( 4 ) the civil war period from 1940 – 1949 ; and ( 5 ) the post-1949 period, following the revolutionary victory.
He was also involved in the completion of converting major avenues to one-way in New York City, a project started in 1949.
The war began in April 1927, amidst the Northern Expedition, and essentially ended when major active battles ceased in 1949 – 1950.
Since 1949, in the Federal Republic of Germany, the SPD has been one of the two major parties, with the other being the Christian Democratic Union.
The rest of ABC's fleet of owned-and-operated major market stations, in Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, would sign on during the next 13 months, giving it parity with CBS and NBC in the important area of big-city presence, as well as a long term advantage in guaranteed reach over the rival DuMont Television Network, by the fall of 1949.
Only Ernie Shore ever fashioned a longer spell of no-hit relief, although Bobby Shantz pitched 9 no-hit innings in relief on 05 / 06 / 1949, when Connie Mack brought him into his second major league game to relieve with no outs in the 4th inning.
Hobart often played the " other woman " in movies during the 1940s, with her last major film role in Bride of Vengeance ( 1949 ).
** Piano Quintet in C major ( begun 1903, finished 1949 )
He batted. 324 ( 3rd in the league ) with 35 home runs ( 4th ), 48 doubles ( 1st ), and 145 RBI ( 1st ), then the most RBIs in a season by a left-handed major league batter since Ted Williams drove in 159 in 1949.
Mansfield is the birthplace of major league baseball player Vida Blue ( born Vida Rochelle Blue, Jr. on July 28, 1949 ) who was a left-handed starting pitcher.
* Prestige Records, a major producer of jazz recordings that was established in 1949, had its offices located here from the mid-1960s until its sale in 1972.
In addition, writers born outside Wales, who have both lived in as well as written about Wales, are often included, such as John Cowper Powys ( 1872 – 1963 ), who settled in Wales in 1935 and wrote two major novels, Owen Glendower ( 1941 ) and Porius ( 1949 ), that have Welsh subject matter.
Bi-seasonal tourism, a major attraction is the Bregenz Festival ( since 1946, floating stage since 1949, modernised in 1979, Festival and Congress Hall in 1980 ), winter sports at the Pfänder mountain.
Red Springs had a minor league baseball team in the late 1940s, the Red Robins, who won the Tobacco State League championship in 1949, led by pitcher Bill Harrington, who would go on to pitch in the major leagues for the Philadelphia / Kansas City Athletics.

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