Oakwood Pool‚ joining the Dolphinette Club coached by Alex Duff.[2] In 1947‚ Bell entered her first long-distance race: a one-mile swim at the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) in Lake Ontario.[3] It was at that first race that Bell first met her future coach Gus Ryder‚ who was coach of the Lakeshore Swimming Club. Bell soon joined the Lakeshore Club and started practicing at the indoor pool of Humberside Collegiate in Toronto.[4] 1954 Lake Ontario swim One September night‚ Bell started her swim
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Anthony Rossi founded what came to be Tropicana in 1947 in Bradenton‚ Fla. – The company started as a small company selling fruit gift boxes in Florida and shortly thereafter shipping them to stores in New York City. By 1957‚ a ship‚ S.S. Tropicana was taking 1.5 million gallons of juice from Florida to New York each week. – Tropicana was the first to own and operate refrigerated trucks in the 1950s‚ which allowed for shipment of juice around the country. – A breakthrough innovation occurred in 1954‚ when Rossi invented and patented a flash pasteurization process
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better life. The 17 years which he ran as Prime Minister are referred to as the “golden era” as it led to rapid economic growth. According to dfat.gov.au‚ an official government website‚ the rate of home ownership rose dramatically from around 40% in 1947 to 75% in the 1960’s. This was the result of Menzies’ introduction of the Homes Savings Grant Act 1964 which aimed to provide assistance to young married persons
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University: The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences Subject:Political Science Date of Submission:1st October‚ 2012. “Why the Iron curtain descended”: A study into the origins and causes of the cold war INTRODUCTION On April 16‚ 1947‚ Bernard Baruch‚ former advisor to former U.S. Presidents‚ Harry Truman and Woodrow Wilson came up with the term ‘Cold War’ to describe the breakdown in relations between the two superpowers at the time-the United States of America and the Soviet
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jury system. The frightened‚ teenaged defendant is on trial‚ as well as the jury and the American judicial system with its purported sense of infallibility‚ fairness and lack of bias. Alternatively‚ the film could also be viewed as commentary on McCarthyism‚ Fascism‚ or Communism (threatening forces in the 50s). One of the film’s posters described how the workings of the judicial
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1600’s in a little town known as Salem Massachusetts‚ where people were killed for crimes of witchcraft. The second instance‚ while not quite as known for bestowing rigor mortis still put ruin on the lives of many. Trials in the 1950’s fueled by McCarthyism and the idea that communism was invading the United States led to the blacklisting of many people as supposed socialists. Arthur Miller saw the real story of the trials for supposed unamericans during his time and he set about making it known to
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Ray Bradbury was alive during a very interesting era‚ a time period that included World War II and the Cold War. There is no doubt that his experience through these historically rich time periods shaped what he thought and wrote during his career as an author. His writings were inspired and influenced by the aspects of the historical events in his lifetime. Ray Bradbury uses historical content in his novel‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ to express his thoughts on society’s weaknesses. By using the novel’s
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emergency aid. Although it was not a true refugee organization with authority‚ it succeeded in helping these people in the beginning and continued its relief and rehabilitation operation until June 1947. Apart from the UNRRA‚ another temporary International Refugee Organization (IRO) was also established in 1947 with a five-year mandate to ensure the settlement of refugees and displayed people.
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Question 1 There were many reasons why the civil rights movement made little progress from 1950 to 1954. During this time the civil right movement had slowed down as this was shortly after the legislation "to secure these rights" was published in 1947 by President Harry S Truman. This was a great triumph for the civil rights movement‚ but unfortunately the movement became sluggish after this legislation. Firstly I believe one of the reasons the civil rights movement became sluggish was the NAACP
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with and even after the Cold War‚ our country didn’t manage to destroy the ideas from Karl Marx which some countries still follow today. This can be seen as a weakness of our military power‚ or the power of containment. The Truman Doctrine‚ created in 1947‚ gave Americans the foundation to a highly successful military which could power over others. The Truman Doctrine was employed financially and militarily in the aid of Greece and Turkey in protection from the threatening powers of Communism. This was
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