While the complexity, size, construction, and general form of CPUs have changed enormously since 1950, it is notable that the basic design and function has not changed much at all.

In 1950 Gordon Childe attempted to define a historic city with 10 general metrics.

The success of the Attlee Government's welfare legislation in reducing poverty was such that, in the general election of 1950, according to Kevin Jefferys, " Labour propaganda could make much of the claim that social security had eradicated the most abject destitution of the 1930s ".

Following the general election of 1950, the Labour party experienced a greatly reduced parliamentary majority, a mere five seats compared to the triple-digit majority of five years previous, despite an increase in the popular vote ( possible because of the first-past-the-post voting system ).

* Lord Beginner's song " General Election " was inspired by Attlee's victory in the 1950 British general election.

D. David Bourland, Jr. ( 1928 – 2000 ) proposed E-Prime as an addition to Alfred Korzybski's general semantics some years after Korzybski's death in 1950.

In 1950 Eric Gairy founded the Grenada United Labour Party, initially as a trades union, which led the 1951 general strike for better working conditions, this sparked great unrest-so many buildings were set ablaze that the disturbances became known as the ' red sky ' days-and the British authorities had to call in military reinforcements to help regain control of the situation.

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.

* 1883 – Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English general ( d. 1950 )

* 1950 – Antonio Taguba, American general

In 1950 the factory relocated to Zuffenhausen, Germany, and general production of the 356 continued until April 1965, well after the replacement model 911 made its autumn 1963 debut.

" His constituency was abolished in boundary changes for the 1950 general election, when he stood instead in the new Birmingham Stechford constituency.

* " Titanium: Our Next Major Metal ", Popular Science, October 1950 — one of first general public detailed articles on Titanium

After unsuccessfully contesting the Labour Party's ultra-safe seat of Normanton at a by-election in 1947 ( when the Labour majority was 62 %), he was elected as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Wolverhampton South West in the 1950 general election.

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

He was first elected in the 1950 general election, for Bexley and was government Chief Whip during the 1950s.

After working as Editor of the Church Times from 1948 to 1949, Heath worked as a management trainee at the merchant bankers Brown, Shipley & Co. until his election as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bexley in the February 1950 general election.

In the general election of 1950, his constituency was altered and he was narrowly elected for the new seat of Huyton near Liverpool.

After partial launches under the names " human engineering " and " humanology ," Polish-American originator Alfred Korzybski ( 1879 – 1950 ) fully launched the program as " general semantics " in 1933 with the publication of Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics.

Although newer knowledge in biology has more sharply defined what the text in these 1946 boxes labels " electro-colloidal ," the diagram remains, as Korzybski wrote in his last published paper in 1950, " satisfactory for our purpose of explaining briefly the most general and important points.

It joined the Trotskyist Fourth International after fusion with the BSP in 1950, and led a general strike ( Hartal ) in 1953.

This band was created in 1950 from smaller groups within the Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D. C. and continues to play jazz music for the Air Force community and the general public.

On his return home, concerned about the general decline in his home country, he decided that he and his family would emigrate and so, in 1950, he settled with his wife and two daughters on farmland at Langwarrin, south-east of Melbourne.

The film's general American release was on January 20, 1950.

In 1950 Grenada had its constitution amended to increase the number of elected seats on the Legislative Council from 5 to 8, to be elected by full adult franchise at the 1951 election.

After serving as a bank officer and as a Sergeant in the Second World War, Askin joined the Liberal Party and was elected to the seat of Collaroy at the 1950 election.

Askin gained preselection for and won the seat of Collaroy at the 17 June 1950 election, gaining 63. 69 % of the vote.

In the 1950 Presidential election, Kekkonen was the candidate of the Agrarian Party.

The Tammany bosses didn't think he was Mayor material, and they refused to nominate him as the Democratic candidate for the special election in November 1950, which instead went to highly regarded New York State Supreme Court Judge Ferdinand Pecora, who was also given the Liberal line.

From its first victory in the 1950 municipal election, the PPP gathered momentum.

For the United Kingdom general election, 1950, the borough constituency of Kennington — which was created for the United Kingdom general election, 1885-was abolished.

Paisley's first political involvement came at the 1950 UK general election, when he campaigned on behalf of the successful Ulster Unionist Party candidate in Belfast West, the Church of Ireland minister James Godfrey MacManaway.

It was abolished for the 1950 general election when it was merged with the Woodbridge constituency to form Sudbury and Woodbridge.

Neave stood at the 1950 election in Thurrock and at Ealing North in 1951.

Enacted by the New Jersey Legislature in 1950 this form of local New Jersey government provides for the election of a Mayor for a term of four years and a Borough Council consisting of six members, elected for three-year terms each, with two seats coming up for election each year.

She stood for Parliament as Labour candidate for Cheltenham in the 1950 general election.

Elected to Parliament in the Attlee landslide at the 1945 general election, Thomas held Cardiff Central between 1945 and 1950 and Cardiff West between 1950 and his retirement from the Commons at the 1983 general election.

However, though the post-war period saw a boom in prosperity for Canada, the country was again at war by 1950, with Alexander, in his role as acting commander-in-chief, deploying to the Korean War soldiers, sailors, and airmen, whom he would visit prior to their departure for north-east Asia.

Pei finally saw his architecture come to life in 1950, when he designed a corporate building for Gulf Oil in Atlanta, Georgia.

In 1707 an undersea volcano breached the sea surface, forming the current centre of activity at Nea Kameni in the centre of the lagoon, and eruptions centred on it continue — the twentieth century saw three such, the last in 1950.

His final race, in 1950, saw him finish first in class and fifth overall.

Although Atlético Madrid, previously known as Atlético Aviación, were champions in 1950 and 1951 under catenaccio mastermind Helenio Herrera, the 1950s saw the beginning of the Barcelona / Real Madrid dominance.

Director Alfred Hitchcock also saw the 1950 screen test and would become one of Kelly's last mentors.

In Africa, 1950 saw the first French-run Méditerranée-le Cap, a rally from the Mediterranean to South Africa ; it was run on and off until 1961, when the new political situation hastened its demise.

After four more years, 1950 saw the cessation of major military hostilities — with the newly founded People's Republic of China controlling mainland China ( including Hainan ), and the Republic of China's jurisdiction being restricted to Taiwan, Penghu, Quemoy, Matsu and several outlying islands.

" During the making of All About Eve, ( 1950 ) Joseph L. Mankiewicz told her of the perception in Hollywood that she was difficult, and she explained that when the audience saw her on screen, they did not consider that her appearance was the result of numerous people working behind the scenes.

That same period saw a corresponding rise in the populations of the suburban communities of Hoover, Vestavia Hills, Alabaster, and Gardendale, none of which were incorporated as municipalities until after 1950.

The 1950 season saw St Kilda win the first five games before fading to finish with eight wins and a draw in ninth place.

The period between 1950 and 1970 saw a major shift in the city's racial make-up, as the proportion of blacks in the population increased significantly.

The town saw massive growth between the years of 1912 and 1950 when the Norfolk Southern Railway ( former ) purchased the old lines of the Aberdeen and Asheboro Railroad and the Durham and Charlotte Railroad.

After dipping to 139 people in 1930, the city saw steady population growth for several decades with population numbers of 238 in 1940, 288 in 1950, and topping out at 295 residents in 1960.

His tenure as police minister ( As Home Minister was called prior to 1950 ) saw successful curbing of communal riots in 1947, mass migration and resettlement of refugees and break-in and putting of idols in disputed Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi complex on 22 Dec 1949.

The mills were often family businesses and continued manufacturing after the wool crisis in 1950 – 51, which saw Australian sheep farmers begin to charge higher prices.

It was first detected in a jet emitted by M87 in 1956 by Geoffrey R. Burbidge, who saw it as confirmation of a prediction by Iosif S. Shklovsky in 1953, but it had been predicted earlier by Hannes Alfvén and Nicolai Herlofson in 1950.

" Furthermore, 8 % of CSICOP's sportsmen were born after 1950, contrary to the advice of Dr. Gauquelin who saw the Mars effect disappear in top athletes born after that year ( Gauquelin thought this was due to Caesarean sections, forceps assisted births and drug induced births, which began to rise dramatically from the middle of the 20th century and altered the " natural " time of birth ).

Under the leadership of Jarl Hjalmarson ( 1950 – 1961 ) the party became an important voice against the rising levels of taxation and a defender of private ownership from, what the party saw as, the growing tendences of state centralization.

Chahine directed his first feature film in 1950, Baba Amin ( Daddy Amin ) at the age of 23, two years before the revolution of 1952 that saw the overthrow of the monarchy and the rise of the charismatic leader Gamal Abdel Nasser.

The first Jackson Pollock show Frankenthaler saw was at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1950.

The outbreak of the Korean War saw him being re-commissioned in the Territorial Army, attached to the Royal Artillery, from 23 November 1948 to 1 July 1950.

1950 saw his appointment as Warden of Newbattle Abbey College ( a college for working class men ) in Midlothian, where he met fellow Orcadian poet, George Mackay Brown.

The base briefly came under Danish control in 1950, but following mounting concerns about the Cold War threat, a new agreement saw the United States reopen Bluie West-8 under the name of Sondrestrom Air Base on 27 April 1951.