In 1950, Public Law 920 created Civil Defense ( different from Civilian-groups of World War 2 ), a responsibility of the Government at all levels to help reduce loss of life and property in disaster, natural or manmade.

* 1950 – Public Transport: Green Hornet disaster.

* July 22, 1950: New York City, New York A 16-year-old boy was shot in the wrist and abdomen at the Public School 141 dance … during an argument with a former classmate.

The Williamsburg Public Library opened on January 28, 1950.

; 1950: On May 10, President Truman signs Public Law 507, creating the National Science Foundation.

In 1950, Public Law 808 was passed, establishing the historic district of " Old Georgetown.

After that he was appointed Minister of Communications and Public Works and acting Minister of Finance in Nuri Al-Saeed ’ s eleventh cabinet ( 16 September 1950 ); then Minister of Finance ( 25 December 1950 ) and Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies for the third time ( first of December 1951 ), remaining in this office until the Chamber was dissolved on 27 October 1952.

Grade schools include: Second Street Junior-Middle School ( 1950 ), Seventh Street Junior School ( c1925 ), and Twentieth Street Junior School ( all in New Toronto ); James S. Bell Junior-Middle School in Long Branch ; John English Junior-Middle School, which is now located in the former Mimico High School ( the original John English School is now a community centre ), David Hornell Junior School on Victoria Street in Mimico, for grades JK-5 ( 1961 ) and the Karen Kain School of the Arts formerly Crestwood Public School.

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Blindness ( NINDB ), the original name for the NINDS, was officially established on November 22, 1950, three months after President Harry Truman signed the Omnibus Medical Research Act ( Public Law 81-692 ) on August 15, 1950.

— Public service giveaway issued by the U. S. Army ( circa 1950 )

The business failed and she returned to the Cleveland Public Library until 1950.

Marvin Olasky ( born June 12, 1950 ) is editor-in-chief of WORLD Magazine, the author of more than 20 books, including The Tragedy of American Compassion, and Distinguished Chair in Journalism and Public Policy at Patrick Henry College.

After the disaster of 1948 Vanport Flood on the lower Columbia River, around Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, the federal government established the Priest Rapids Project under the Flood Control Act of 1950 ( Public Law 81-516 ; May 17, 1950 ).

Swanee Grace Hunt ( born May 1, 1950 ), Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, is the founding director of the Women and Public Policy Program ( WAPPP ) at the Kennedy School, and former United States Ambassador to Austria.

WOI-TV in Ames had signed on in 1950 as a sister station to WOI radio, and had carried some National Educational Television programming until Des Moines Public Schools signed on KDPS-TV as the educational station for central Iowa.

The college is registered under Societies ’ Registration Act, 1860 and Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950.

He served as Minister of Industry and Trade from 1945 to 1950, when he became Minister of Public Health.

In July 1950, Bulkington Local Health Board was formed, under the Public Health Act 1848 and in 1894 this was converted into an urban district council.

De-mobilised in 1950 and placed in the care of the Ministry of Public Building and Works and opened to the public, the site is now cared for by English Heritage.

Margaret DeBardeleben Tutwiler ( born December 28, 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama ) is a former Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the US State Department, serving from December 16, 2003 to June 30, 2004.

* 1950 – Housing Act,

It was acquired by the Housing and Home Finance Agency from the Federal Loan Agency as a constituent unit in 1950.

* The Housing Act of 1950 enlarged and liberalized the loan guarantee privileges of Second World War veterans by administering a direct loan program for those veterans who were unable to acquire private home financing.

* Housing loan repayments-The median monthly housing loan repayment in Stonnington is $ 1950, compared to the Melbourne average of $ 1300.

Robert Taylor Homes were completed in 1962 and named for Robert Rochon Taylor, an African American activist and Chicago Housing Authority ( CHA ) board member who in 1950 resigned when the city council refused to endorse potential building locations throughout the city of Chicago that would induce racially integrated housing.

It appears that no development occurred in northern Hamersley, other than the construction of Beach and Carine Roads in 1900, and the State Housing Commission resumed the land in November 1950.

* 1950 Orchard Croft Housing Estate & The Stow ( Shopping centre ), Harlow, Essex, England

From April 1950 he was Minister for Works, Water Supply and Housing, working to establish the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company refinery at Kwinana.

In 1949 – 1950 the Queensland Housing Commission purchased ' Serviceton ', comprising approximately 850 acres ( 3. 4 km² ) of land, from the faltering Serviceton Housing Co-operative.

Some of his major public works included the Toussaint L ’ Ouverture Monument ( 1950 ) installed originally at the Haitian National Palace and the General Jean-Jacques Dessalines Monument ( 1952 ), in Port-au-Prince, Haiti ; Green Pastures: Walls of Jericho for the Harlem River Housing Project, and a sculpture of Rose McClendon ( 1932 ), the African American actress, for Frank Lloyd Wright ’ s Fallingwater House.

A Housing Committee was thus formed quickly in 1947, and reported an acute housing shortage facing the city, where the population had already reached a million by 1950.

UNHCR was established on 14 December 1950 and succeeded the earlier United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.

UNRRA: the History of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ( Columbia University Press, 1950 ), the official history

Beginning in 1950, Soviet naval officers helped to establish the Hauptverwaltung Seepolizei ( Main Administration Sea Police ), which was renamed Volkspolizei-See ( VP-See ) ( People's Police-Sea ) on 1 July 1952.

In 1950, the Federal Civil Defense Administration revised the signals, naming the alert signal " Red Alert " and adding an all-clear signal, defined as three one-minute steady blasts, with two-minutes of silence between blasts.

In 1950, a 336-bed Veteran's Administration hospital opened on the western edge of town.

The Fujita scale was applied retroactively to tornadoes reported between 1950 and 1972 in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) National Tornado Database.

In 1950, its functions were transferred to the United States Maritime Administration within the Department of Transportation.

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to Youngdahl's appointment to the U. S. District Court for Washington, D. C. ( 1951 – 1967 ); correspondence and files relating to the Judicial Conference Committee on the Administration of the Probation System ( 1962 – 1967 ); photograph albums and scrapbook materials documenting his experiences as governor of Minnesota ( 1947 – 1951 ), his judicial service, and family activities ; and some personal papers ( 1950 – 1968 ) are available for research use.

* Larkin Administration Building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright ( demolished 1950 )

The Special Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, 1951 – 77, more commonly known as the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee ( SISS ) and sometimes the McCarran Committee, was authorized under S. 366, approved December 21, 1950, to study and investigate ( 1 ) the administration, operation, and enforcement of the Internal Security Act of 1950 (, also known as the McCarran Act ) and other laws relating to espionage, sabotage, and the protection of the internal security of the United States and ( 2 ) the extent, nature, and effects of subversive activities in the United States " including, but not limited to, espionage, sabotage, and infiltration of persons who are or may be under the domination of the foreign government or organization controlling the world Communist movement or any movement seeking to overthrow the Government of the United States by force and violence.

Shared military and civilian use — both domestic and international — began on April 16, 1950 in the reconstructed Civil Aeronautics Administration Taipei Airport ().

In 1950, the Truman Administration allowed for a democratic referendum in Puerto Rico to determine whether Puerto Ricans desired to draft their own local constitution without affecting the unincorporated territory status with the U. S. A local constitution was approved by a Constitutional Convention on February 6, 1952, ratified by the U. S. Congress, approved by President Truman on July 3 of that year, and proclaimed by Gov.

* Somalia ( British Administration ) 1950 only

* Appropriations for the Farmer ’ s Home Administration were increased ( 1950 ).

* Appropriations for the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Rural Electrification Administration were increased ( 1950 ).

While NSC-68 did not make any specific recommendations regarding the proposed increase in defense expenditures, the Truman Administration almost tripled defense spending as a percentage of the gross domestic product between 1950 and 1953 ( from 5 to 14. 2 percent ).

The Act was reauthorized in 1950, but in 1951, it and the Economic Cooperation Act were succeeded by the Mutual Security Act, and its newly created independent agency, the Mutual Security Administration, to supervise all foreign aid programs, including both military assistance programs and non-military, economic assistance programs that bolstered the defense capability of U. S. allies.

For example, when private funding was sufficient to assure operation of the hotel administration program of the College of Home Economics, it was spun off as a separate School of Hotel Administration in 1950.

Beginning in 1950, under the Truman Administration, the United States became the first known industrialized nation to explicitly ( albeit secretly ) and permanently forswear a reduction of working time.

In the latter half of the 20th century, St. Thomas started two of its most notable graduate programs: Education in 1950 and Business Administration in 1974.

In the early post-war era, he served in the Truman Administration as Director of Policy Planning for the State Department ( 1950 – 1953 ).

Fortuitously for the CIA, that failed scouting trip coincided with the first US state visit of Anastasio Somoza García, the President of Nicaragua ( 1937 – 47, 1950 – 56 ), who told the Truman Administration ( 1945 – 53 ) of the existence of a small, Guatemalan rebel-group commanded by Col. Castillo Armas.

The school, named after Joseph L. Rotman, was established in 1950 as Institute of Business Administration though the University of Toronto has been offering undergraduate courses in management since 1902.