During the 1950 ′ s, Pinewood gave birth to the huge financial successes of the Carry On ... and Doctor films series, produced on behalf of Rank by Peter Rogers and his wife Betty E. Box and directed by the brothers Gerald Thomas and Ralph Thomas respectively ( Doctor in the House was the most popular box office film of 1954 in Great Britain ) and the Norman Wisdom comedies, which between 1953 and 1966 initially made more money than the James Bond film series.

In 1950, the site was bought by J. Arthur Rank who renamed it Gate Studios and made religious films.

The Baltic Flour Mill was built by the Rank Hovis company to a late-1930s design by architects Gelder and Kitchen and completed in 1950.

At the age of 18, the Rank Organisation put her under a seven-year contract, and she went on to make the films, Stop Press Girl ( 1949 ), The History of Mr. Polly ( 1949 ) with John Mills, Fools Rush In ( 1949 ), and Due mogli sono troppe ( 1950 ).

In 1945 James Rank, the new chairman, assisted by Cecil Loombe, who had become a director, set about rebuilding mills destroyed by bombing, which included the new Baltic Flour Mill at Gateshead, opened in 1950.

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

The rest of the post-September 1950 cartoons by Famous Studios that were released prior to April 1, 1962 ( except some special releases ) were sold to Harvey Comics, along with all rights to Famous ' characters Casper the Friendly Ghost, Little Audrey, Herman and Katnip, et al., in 1958, which were retitled " Harveytoons " for television distribution after 1959 ( beginning with their exposure on Matty's Funday Funnies ).

In 1902, lots sold for between $ 350 – 700 for ocean-front property and by 1950, the population of Pacific Beach reached 30, 000 and the average home sold for $ 12, 000.

For example, a 1950 Butlins hanger sold for £ 10. 10 in October 2006 within Collecticus.

Later, after WW2, in the late 1940s to mid 1950 many other R / C designs emerged and some were sold commercially, Berkeley's Super Aerotrol, was one such example.

Over the years, Reid sold parcels of land for home sites, and in 1950 he sold the last of his land.

John Cimbora died in 1947, and Anna Cimbora sold the hotel in 1950 to the Clement family, which continued to operate the restaurant and hotel, at least for a few years.

Most lots were sold and homes were built from 1920 – 1950, although some subdivisions have sprung up since then in the Westwood area.

Epsom Chapel was demolished in 1950 when Goucher College sold a portion of its property for development of the Towson Plaza shopping center, now Towson Town Center.

Trommers brewed beer under that label until 1950, when the concern was again sold to Liebmann Breweries, Incorporated, which bottled Rheingold Beer.

The castle was used by the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War II, and the 10th Duke of Manchester sold the castle to Kimbolton School in 1950.

With the death of EMCC's chairman and chief financial backer Harry L. Straus in a plane crash on October 25, 1949, EMCC was sold to typewriter maker Remington Rand on February 15, 1950.

Canadian operations began in 1950 and continued until 1989, when they were sold to domestic owners and renamed SmithBooks.

By 1950, virtually all goods were sold under the " St Michael " label.

" It was active from 1950 – 1969 when the brothers sold the company.

The company continued to advertise new cars for sale until 1950, but the factory was sold to Robert de Rovin in 1948 and thereafter used to make cyclecars.

With the exception of the Superman and Popeye cartoons, Paramount's cartoon library from prior to October 1950 was originally sold to a company called U. M .& M.

By 1950, the News of the World had become the biggest-selling newspaper in the world with a weekly sale of 8, 441, 000 and individual editions sold over 9 million copies.

The Castle was used as an officers ' rest home during the Second World War, and in 1950 the estate farms were sold off.

Tango is a carbonated soft drink sold primarily in the United Kingdom and Ireland and from 2010 in Sweden, Norway and Hungary as well, first launched by Corona in 1950.

Adele Herter died at " The Creeks " in 1946 ; the estate was sold to Alfonso A. Ossorio in 1951 by Christian Herter after his father Albert's death in 1950.

From 1950 to 1973, Matsushita's company became one of the world ’ s largest manufacturers of electrical goods, sold under well-known trademarks including Panasonic and Technics.

On February 1, 1950, contract N8ss-2660 was approved for 1, 000 units “ especially adapted for general reconnaissance or command communications ” and “ constructed for short period underwater operation such as encountered in landing and fording operations.

A contract with Capitol Records granted the nonet several recording sessions between January 1949 and April 1950.

Both Convair and Lockheed competed for the contract but in 1950, the requirement was revised, with a call for a research aircraft capable of eventually evolving into a VTOL ship-based convoy escort fighter.

In May 1950, Bill Dodgin, the Fulham manager made a personal visit to the Robson household to offer Bobby a professional contract.

When her contract was not renewed, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ) gave her a small but significant part in the film Three Little Words ( 1950 ), then signed her to a seven-year contract.

In April 1950, the Fort Bliss missile development operation, then with 130 German contract employees, 120 civil-service employees, and 500 military personnel, was transferred to Redstone Arsenal.

Between 1920 and 1950, the factory produced millions of baseballs through the Hubbert / Spalding contract.

After this ABPC offered him a two year contract and he appeared in several of their lower budget films such as Cairo Road ( 1950 ).

She continued working after 1947, and married actor Guy Madison in 1949, but by 1950 it was well known that she had become a victim of alcoholism, and Paramount did not renew her contract.

The same two companies negotiated a six-year, $ 6 million contract to broadcast the Series on television in 1950.

Besides high hourly wage rates and paid vacations, In 1950 Reuther negotiated an industry first contract with General Motors known as the Treaty of Detroit ( Fortune magazine ) becoming known as Reuther's Treaty of Detroit.

In 1950, while a graduate student in radio at the University of California, Los Angeles and appearing in a college play, he was spotted by talent scouts and offered a two-year motion picture contract by 20th Century-Fox that was eventually extended to 1959.

On the basis of the huge success of this film, released in 1950, he was offered a seven-year contract by MGM.

Art Dorrington was the first black player to sign an NHL contract, in 1950 with the New York Rangers organization, but Dorrington never played beyond the minor league level.

Due to a jurisdiction dispute over television performers, the Associated Actors and Artistes of America create the Television Authority on April 16, 1950, which negotiates the first network television contract in December.

In 1950, at age fifteen, she won a singing competition organized by a local radio station and was given a contract to perform for two months.

Instead, in 1950 MIT bought a surplus Cincinnati Milling Machine Company " Hydro-Tel " mill of their own and arranged a new contract directly with the Air Force that froze Parsons out of further development.

After his performance in the 1950 College World Series, Lary signed a $ 6, 000 contract with the Toledo Mudhens, the Detroit Tigers ' American Association farm club.

Terry Tai-Ming Gou, sometimes written as Terry Guo, () ( born October 8, 1950 in Banqiao Township, Taipei County ) is a Taiwanese tycoon who leads Hon Hai Precision ( Foxconn ), a company that manufactures electronics on contract for other companies.

He had convinced manager Charlie Paynter to offer Bond a contract and Bond turned professional in March 1950.

Chandler's first movie for Universal under his new contract was Abandoned ( 1949 ), then he was borrowed by 20th Century Fox to play Cochise in Broken Arrow ( 1950 ).

In 1950, the state of Maryland began a contract to allow 10 Maryland students to attend the vet school at the University of Georgia in exchange for the admittance of 10 Georgia residents into the University of Maryland School of Dentistry.

It took him until 1950 to pay off the land contract and he then assumed full ownership of the bungalow.