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

In 1950, Olive Ann Beech was installed as president and CEO of the company, after the sudden death of her husband from a heart attack on 29 November of that year.

In 1952, Lancaster co-produced with producer Harold Hecht ( who had previously produced three Lancaster films under his own production company Norma Productions ; Kiss the Blood Off My Hands ( 1948 ), The Flame and the Arrow ( 1950 ), and Ten Tall Men ( 1951 )).

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.

As the only company that continually produced Jeep vehicles after the war, Willys-Overland was granted the privilege of owning the name " Jeep " as a registered trademark in June 1950.

In the 20th century the company was headed by Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach ( 1870 – 1950 ), who assumed the surname of Krupp when he married the Krupp heiress, Bertha Krupp.

" After Mack left the company in 1950, support for the black sales team faded and it was cut.

Immediately before the war the partners concentrated on making light-weight racing cars, but a few years after the war, starting with the presentation of a Panhard based cabriolet at the 1950 Paris Motor Show, the company began to produce small road-going sports cars.

In 1950, the Ericsson Swedish company developed their own versions of the 1XB and A204 systems for the international market.

* Mitsubishi Corporation, founded in 1950, Japan's largest general trading company

Pfizer's discovery of Terramycin ( oxytetracycline ) in 1950 put it on a path towards becoming a research-based pharmaceutical company.

The discovery and commercialization of Terramycin ( oxytetracycline ) by Pfizer in 1950 moved the company on the path of change from a manufacturer of fine chemicals to a research-based pharmaceutical company.

It is named after Melitta Bentz ( 1873 – 1950 ) who founded the company after she invented the drip brew paper coffee filter ( German patent granted July 8, 1908 ).

She joined the Old Vic company in London for the 1950 – 51 season, playing among other parts, Win-the-Fight Littlewit in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, Ann Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Princess Katharine in Henry V.

In the 1950, the Gerber baby food company donated Camp Gerber ( now of the Gerald R. Ford Council ) to the Boy Scouts of America.

The company went bankrupt in 1950.

Company representatives in 1950 had estimated that a more than six billion bricks had been produced since the founding of the company.

The replacement building at Pearl Street and Ticket Avenue was completed in 1950 and served as company headquarters for forty-two years.

A baritone, he sang leading roles with the New York Metropolitan Opera company more than 600 times from 1923 to 1950.

* From the early 1900s until at least around 1950, the city had more millionaires per capita than any other U. S. city of a similar population and the largest milling company in the Midwest, selling products to 23 states and seven foreign countries.

The company has made a number of corporate acquisitions, including Crosse & Blackwell in 1950, Findus in 1963, Libby's in 1971, Rowntree Mackintosh in 1988 and Gerber in 2007.

SEAT, S. A. () is a Spanish automobile manufacturer founded on May 9, 1950, by the Instituto Nacional de Industria ( INI ), a state-owned industrial holding company.

When Haiti announced that its first direct elections ( all men twenty-one or over were allowed to vote ) would be held on October 8, 1950, Magloire resigned from the junta and declared himself a candidate for president.

The Charter of the German Expellees () of August 5, 1950, announced their belief in requiring that " the right to the homeland is recognized and carried out as one of the fundamental rights of mankind given by God ", while renouncing revenge and retaliation in the face of the " unending suffering " ( unendliche Leid ) of the previous decade, and supporting the unified effort to rebuild Germany and Europe.

His first major alteration happened on June 14, 1950, when it was announced that American Oil Company planned to televise all Redskins games, making Washington the first NFL team to have an entire season of televised games.

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

It was invented by Dr. John N. Shive ( more famous for his wave machine ) at Bell Labs in 1948, but it wasn't announced until 1950.

At the third congress of the SED in 1950, Ulbricht announced a five-year plan concentrating on the doubling of industrial production.

The original idea was conceived by Jean Monnet, a senior French civil servant and it was announced by Robert Schuman, the French Foreign Minister, in a declaration on 9 May 1950.

In 1950 the Dade County Planning Board announced a plan to build a highway connecting Key Biscayne with the Overseas Highway on Key Largo.

In 1950, Ralph Edwards, the host of the radio quiz show Truth or Consequences, announced that he would air the program from the first town that renamed itself after the show.

The selection of a site near Aiken by the United States Atomic Energy Commission to build a plant to produce fuel for thermonuclear weapons was announced on November 30, 1950.

Also, the athlete of the year ( who is chosen by the Hallsville coaches ) is announced, which started in 1950.

In May 1950, after the capture of Hainan island by Chinese Communist forces, U. S. President Harry S. Truman began covertly authorizing direct financial assistance to the French, and on June 27, 1950, after the outbreak of the Korean War, announced publicly that the U. S. was doing so.

This discussion turned into a published article, which received so much positive publicity that on March 14, 1950, the FBI officially announced the list to increase law enforcement's ability to capture dangerous fugitives.

The Sierra Club secured its national reputation in the battle against the Echo Park dam in Dinosaur National Monument in Utah, which had been announced by the Bureau of Reclamation in 1950.

On December 19, 1950 the North Atlantic Council announced the appointment of General Eisenhower as the first SACEUR.

In December 1950 it was announced that the forces initially to come under General Eisenhower's command were to be the Seventh United States Army in Germany, the British Army of the Rhine, with 2nd & 7th Armoured Divisions, to be bolstered by 11th Armoured Division and a further infantry division, three French divisions in Germany and Austria, the Danish, Belgian, and the Independent Norwegian Brigades in Western Germany, and the American and British garrisons in Austria, Trieste, and Berlin.

In 1950 Vandenberg announced that he had developed cancer.

When the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile announced the inaugural World Championship for 1950, Farina secured a drive alongside Juan Manuel Fangio and countryman Luigi Fagioli at the dominant Alfa Romeo team, driving the invincible 158 Alfetta cars.

Headquartered in Paris, at the end of the 1949 season it announced that for 1950 they would be linking several national Formula One Grands Prix to create a World Championship for drivers, although due to economic difficulties the years and were actually competed in Formula Two cars.

Gavyn Davies, OBE ( born 27 November 1950 ) is a former Goldman Sachs partner and multi-millionaire who was the chairman of the BBC from 2001 until 2004. On 28 January 2004 he announced that he was resigning his BBC post following the publication of the Hutton Inquiry report which heavily criticised the organisation.

On November 22, 1950, the World Council of Peace announced that Nazım Hikmet was among the recipients of the International Peace Prize along with Pablo Picasso, Paul Robeson, Wanda Jakubowska and Pablo Neruda.

On 9 October 2008, the school announced that 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature Harold Pinter, who attended the school in 1950 – 51, had agreed to become its president, succeeding Labour Party politician Peter Mandelson, who had rejoined the government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown ; previous presidents of the school included Dame Judi Dench and Lord Laurence Olivier.

When the Blondie film series came to an end with Beware of Blondie in 1950, it was announced that it would be replaced with a series of Gasoline Alley movies.