Newcomb's tables formed the basis of all astronomical ephemerides of the Sun from 1900 through 1983: they were originally expressed ( and published ) in terms of Greenwich Mean Time and the mean solar day, but later, in respect of the period 1960 – 1983, they were treated as expressed in terms of ET, in accordance with the adopted ET proposal of 1948 – 52.

During his long association with Knoll he designed many important pieces of furniture including the " Grasshopper " lounge chair and ottoman ( 1946 ), the " Womb " chair and ottoman ( 1948 ), the " Womb " settee ( 1950 ), side and arm chairs ( 1948 – 1950 ), and his most famous " Tulip " or " Pedestal " group ( 1956 ), which featured side and arm chairs, dining, coffee and side tables, as well as a stool.

But under the direction of Mira Ziminska-Sygietynska, who with her late husband founded the organization in 1948, it has all been put into theatrical form, treated selectively, choreographed specifically for presentation to spectators, and performed altogether professionally.

In 1948, Eisenhower said he was " one of the most deeply religious men I know " though unattached to any " sect or organization ".

* 1948 – The United Nations passes General Assembly Resolution 194, which established and defined the role of the United Nations Conciliation Commission as an organization to facilitate peace in the British Mandate for Palestine.

* 1948: The organization " Native Esperanto speakers " became part of TJO.

The World Council of Churches ( WCC ) is an inter-church organization founded in 1948.

The United Nations Truce Supervision Organization ( UNTSO ) is an organization founded on 29 May 1948 for peacekeeping in the Middle East.

Twelve years later, his organization had its moment of greatest ignominy, when it predicted that Thomas Dewey would defeat Harry S. Truman in the 1948 election, by five to fifteen percentage points.

Shortly before his death in 1948, Atkinson transferred ownership of the paper to a charitable organization given the mandate of continuing the paper's liberal tradition.

The Gravity Research Foundation, established in 1948 by businessman Roger Babson ( founder of Babson College ), was an organization designed to find ways to implement gravitational shielding.

In 1948, Abe B. Baker, chair of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Minnesota, formed the American Academy of Neurology ( AAN ) to give young neurologists a national organization to join.

Intolerance by mainland Korean officials of islanders in general at the time, government and organization sponsored isolation of the island, and rumored cover up of evidence linking the rebellion's suppressors with foreign powers and people who have today gone un-prosecuted is believed to be the primary cause of public ignorance, hedging on denial, over the April 3, 1948 genocide on Cheju-do.

In 2007 Zochrot, an Israeli organization founded to promote recognition of the Nakba ( 1948 Palestinian exodus ,) protested development plans that encroached on the former village center.

In 1948 the United States joined the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ), the predecessor organization of the World Trade Organization.

Stanisław Józef Bronisław Kasznica ( July 25, 1908-May 12, 1948 ) was the last commander of the National Armed Forces ( NSZ ), an anti-communist, and anti-Nazi paramilitary organization, which was part of the Polish resistance movement in World War II and in the period following it.

In 1948, the NAIB became the first national organization to open their intercollegiate postseason to black student-athletes.

* The common Israeli name for Irgun Tzvai-Leumi, or Irgun, an organization operating in the British Mandate of Palestine from 1931 to 1948.

The Toronto Maple Leafs organization signed him, and in 1948 he moved to Toronto to play junior hockey and attended St. Michael's College School.

Assigned to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1936, he set about training members of the Haganah, the Jewish paramilitary organization, which became the Israel Defense Forces with the establishment in 1948 of the state of Israel.

Qutb's Western critics have questioned whether Qutb was likely to arouse interest of American intelligence agents ( as he was not a member of the Egyptian government or any political organization at that time ), or whether many Americans, let alone hospital employees, knew who Hasan al-Banna or the Muslim Brotherhood were in 1948.

As part of the post-war reorganization, the Defence Rifle Associations were disbanded in 1948 and replaced by a new Commando organization with a strength of 90, 000 men.

The pro-business organization controlled the North Carolina Democratic Party, and therefore, state politics, until 1948.

Stanfield took over the party in 1948 when it had no seats in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, and by 1956, had built it into an organization that was able to sweep to power.

However, the five existing statutory colleges have been affiliated with SUNY since its inception in 1948 ( but had no affiliation with any umbrella organization before 1948 ).

While at 3GL, Happy also made his first TV appearance in 1948, long before the Tarax show, as part of an exhibition using closed-circuit TV equipment for trial purposes.

On 30 June 1948, the Air Force activated the 43rd Air Refueling Squadron, whose KB-29Ms were newly equipped with aerial refueling equipment purchased from the British firm FRL.

It received its first equipment, a single used pumper, later that summer and answered its first call in September 1948.

On January 2, 1948, Indiana State Police raided every casino in the city before the operators could warn each other, and the judge who had devoted the past nine years in eliminating gambling from Jeffersonville, James L. Bottorff, made sure that the equipment was confiscated and the money at the casinos given to charity.

In 1948 a plot of land north of town was purchased and this is where the liquor store, fire station, water tower, pump house and equipment garages were eventually built.

After his initial 1948 plan to expand the Army and modernize its equipment was rejected by the Truman Administration, Bradley reacted to the increasingly severe postwar defense department budget cutbacks imposed by Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson by publicly supporting Johnson's decisions, going so far as to tell Congress that he would be doing a " disservice to the nation " if he asked for a larger military force.

The Rock Island did not concede to the Santa Fe ’ s dominance in the Chicago-Los Angeles travel market and re-equipped the train with new streamlined equipment in 1948.

The train was also re-equipped with streamlined equipment in 1948.

A 10 spline type was used with some early equipment such as the 1948 Land Rover, a six spline adapter was usually supplied.

To meet these needs, the IRE established professional journals ( most notably the Proceedings of the IRE, established 1913 and edited for 41 years by Alfred N. Goldsmith ); participated actively in all aspects of standardization and regulations of the frequency spectrum, modulation techniques, testing methods, and radio equipment ; and organized regional and professional groups ( starting in 1914 and 1948, respectively ) for cooperation and exchange between members.

Crosley introduced several " firsts " in the American automobile industry, including the first use of the term ' Sport Utility ' in 1948 ( albeit on an open model based on the wagon, not a wagon on a truck chassis ); first mass-market single overhead camshaft ( SOHC ) engine in 1946 ; first slab-sided postwar car, also in 1946 ; first all steel-bodied wagon in 1947 ; first American car to be fitted with 4-wheel caliper type disc brakes in the 1949 model year ( Chrysler Imperial introduced four-wheel disc brakes as standard equipment on Crown Imperials at the beginning of the 1949 model year, but they were not of the caliper type ); and the first American sports car, the Hotshot, in the 1949 model year.

This allowed additional men and equipment in to break the Arab siege just before the previously negotiated United Nations cease fire took effect on June 11, 1948.

In 1948 Rediffusion established Redifon Ltd as a manufacturer of naval ( and later flight ) telecommunications equipment.

The old cruiser was sunk as an atomic bomb test target during First Task Fleet manoeuvers in May 1948. became the flagship of Vice Admiral G. F. Bogan ( Commander First Task Fleet ) on 25 March 1949. served as flagship for Commander First Fleet early in 1949 for three weeks of amphibious operations in Alaskan waters to evaluate cold weather equipment.

In 1948, the PRR again re-equipped the Broadway Limited with new streamlined equipment.

The factory produced also non-aviation items, like fire engines ( 1948 ), refrigerators ( 1954 – 1966 ), Mikrus MR-300 small car ( 1956 – 1960, 1728 built ), refrigerator car bodies ( 1962 – 1974 ), TV broadcast cars ( from 1965 ), fuel injection equipment ( from 1964 ), Leyland-licence diesel engines ( from 1967 ), Melex electric utility vehicles and golf carts ( from 1970, mostly for export to the USA, later separated as own brand ).

* February 29, 1948: The AT & SF receives the first post-War equipment order from Pullman-Standard and places these into service on the Super Chief.

PACUSA / FEAF deployments to Korea prior to the 1948 partition of the country helped in the establishment of the Republic of Korea ( South Korea ), along with the transfer of surplus military equipment and other aid to French Indochina as well as aid to the Nationalist Chinese during the Chinese Civil War which resumed after the end of World War II ( 1945 – 1949 ).

In 1947 – 1948 the Milwaukee Road again re-equipped its major passenger routes with new lightweight equipment.

The Altalena, former landing ship tank USS LST-138, purchased by Irgun members Gershon Hakim, Avrasha Stawsky, and Victor Ben-Nachum, was originally intended to reach Israel on 15 May 1948, loaded with fighters and military equipment.

The first truce in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War had also begun on June 11 and when the Irgun leaders in Israel learned through the Radio London broadcast of the embarkation of the vessel, they feared that this breach of the truce conditions ( i. e., the ban on bringing military equipment and fighters into the country ) would be revealed ( these aspects of the truce were ignored by both sides ).

Sanson's Peak was named in 1948 for Norman Bethune Sanson who diligently attended the observatory recording equipment atop Sulphur Mountain for nearly 30 years.

* Brief history, 1948 system map, and numerous photographs of GM & O equipment and stations

Mr. Luna arrived in September, 1948 and immediately moved to provide facilities, books, equipment, working animals, food and other needs of the school until his replacement by Mr. Domingo C. Gabertan on August 4, 1949.