* 1950 – President Harry Truman orders the US Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.

In 1950 American president Harry S. Truman said that atomic weapons may be used in the Korean War.

* 1950 – U. S. President Harry S. Truman declares a state of emergency, after Chinese troops enter the fight with communist North Korea in the Korean War.

The Uniform Code of Military Justice, passed by Congress in 1950 and signed by President Harry S Truman, established the policies and procedures for discharging service members.

* 1950 – President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.

In 1950, at the outbreak of the Korean War, Hoover submitted to President Truman a plan to suspend the writ of habeas corpus and detain 12, 000 Americans suspected of disloyalty.

* Local Color ( book ), a 1950 note and sketch study by Truman Capote

* Local Color, European travel essays by Truman Capote published in 1950

* 1950 – Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.

* In 1950 Menzies was awarded the Legion of Merit ( Chief Commander ) by U. S. President Harry S. Truman for " exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services 1941 – 1944 and December 1949 – July 1950 ".

The legislation creating the National Science Foundation was signed by President Harry S. Truman on May 10, 1950

* On November 1, 1950, two Puerto Rican nationalists staged an attempted assassination on U. S. President Harry S. Truman.

When the early months of the Korean War showed how poorly prepared the Defense Department was, Truman fired Secretary Louis A. Johnson and named Marshall as Secretary of Defense in September 1950.

In response, on January 31, 1950, President Truman announced a crash program to develop a fusion bomb.

He still performed major extended compositions such as Harlem ( 1950 ), whose score he presented to music-loving President Harry Truman.

During the period of McCarthyism ( 1950 – 1954 ), Humphrey was accused of being " soft on Communism ", despite having been one of the founders of the anti-communist liberal organization Americans for Democratic Action, having been a staunch supporter of the Truman Administration's efforts to combat the growth of the Soviet Union, and having fought Communist political activities in Minnesota and elsewhere.

* Bush, Vannevar, ( 1950 ) Science, the Endless Frontier, Report from the Director of the OSRD to President H. Truman

On August 31, 1950, O ' Dwyer, pursued by both federal and state investigators, was suddenly appointed by President Harry S. Truman as ambassador to Mexico, where he would be beyond the reach of officials who wanted his public testimony in several matters on which he preferred not to speak.

Their report, NSC-68, was submitted directly to Truman in February 1950, who sent it to the NSC for a cost analysis.

Truman made additional structural changes in the NSC in late 1950 and in 1951.

Acheson's most famous decision was convincing President Truman to intervene in the Korean War in June 1950.

Following his discharge from the Navy, he remained at Truman's side as White House Counsel from 1946 to 1950, as Truman came rapidly to trust and rely upon Clifford.

In 1950, Truman signed the top-secret policy plan NSC-68, which shifted foreign policy from passive to active containment.

In October 1950, President Harry Truman wrote to King Ibn Saud that " the United States is interested in the preservation of the independence and territorial integrity of Saudi Arabia.

The average annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the Sixties is still considerably below the annual rate of 1,525,000 in the three-year period from April 1947 to March 1950.

Roma finished in the lower half of Serie A for five seasons in a row, before eventually succumbing to their only ever relegation to Serie B at the end of the 1950 – 51 season ; around a decade after their championship victory.

As late as 1950 half of the workers were in agriculture and only a third lived in urban towns.

In 1950, he was selected by the Associated Press as the greatest swimmer of the first half of the 20th Century.

By 1950 there would be 50, 000 motels serving half of the 22 million US vacationers ; by 1951 motels would surpass hotels in consumer demand.

In 1950 an Associated Press poll of almost 400 sportswriters and broadcasters voted Thorpe the " greatest athlete " of the first half of the 20th century.

As the Baby Boom generation aged, two and a half times more Americans would enter the labor force between 1965 and 1980 than had between 1950 and 1965.

The unit was to become the longest-serving military unit in any UN operation till date, serving from October 1950 till May 1953, a total of three and a half years, returning home to a heroes ' welcome.

The population of the city has declined significantly in the second half of the 20th century, from a high of 85, 000 in 1950, as a result of suburbanization and economic stagnation.

These states were dissolved into the Republic over the first half of 1950.

By 1950, Argentina's GDP per capita accounted just nearly half of the United States.

In 1950 a Canadian press poll proclaimed Percy Williams Canada's greatest track athlete of the first half of the century.

A Friend of the Earth is the story of Tyrone O ' Shaughnessy Tierwater, a U. S. citizen born in 1950, half Irish Catholic and half Jewish (" I'm a mess and I know it.

The Seeburg Corporation introduced an all 45 rpm vinyl record jukebox in 1950 leading to the 45 rpm record becoming the dominant jukebox media for the last half of the 20th century.

In January 1950, he was found guilty on both counts of perjury and received two concurrent five-year sentences, of which he eventually served three and a half years.

In the first half of the 20th century ( 1 January 1900 – 31 December 1950 ), the line of the Sacramento Northern Railroad ran through Moraga ; much of the old right-of-way is now part of the popular Lafayette-Moraga Regional Trail.

By 1950, more than half of all employment was in the manufacturing sector.

On March 18, 1950, Farmington was the site of a mass UFO sighting where over half the town's population was reported to have seen large saucers in the sky flying at rapid speeds.

It has had some loss since then, but is relatively stable compared to the former industrial cities, which have lost half their residents since peaks in 1940 and 1950.

The city had a population of 6, 712 in 1950, which declined throughout the latter half of the twentieth century.

More than half of all homes ( 53 %) were built before 1950, with a majority of those ( 45 % of all homes ) having been built prior to 1940.

During the 1950 general election a Beverley county constituency was created, covering half of the East Riding, with Bridlington covering the other half.

He wrote in a July 1950 Paris-Presse article that Poulenc was " A lover of life, mischievous, bon enfant, tender and impertinent, melancholy and serenely mystical, half monk and half delinquent moine et le voyou.