{"id":76,"date":"2010-10-17T20:40:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T00:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/2010\/10\/17\/1947-in-history\/"},"modified":"2010-10-17T20:40:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T00:40:59","slug":"1947-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/2010\/10\/17\/1947-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"1947 in History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some important historical events in 1947 (year it was written and in which it was set):
\nJan 3rd – First televised Congressional opening session
\nJan 15th\u00a0– “The Black Dahlia” murder
\nFeb 10th – WW II peace treaty signed
\nMar 13th – “Brigadoon” opens at Ziegfeld, 581 performances
\nMar 22nd – Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty, Congress sets a 2 term limit on presidency
\nApril 6th – The first Tony Awards
\nApril 9th – Atomic Energy Comission confirmed
\nApril 10th – Jackie Robinson becomes first black in major league baseball
\nJun 4th – Taft-Hartley Act approved
\nJun 5th – Marshall Plan announced
\nJul 25th – Department of Defense is formed
\nJul 26th – National Security Act\/CIA is formed
\nOct 5th – First televised Presidential Address
\nNov 1st – Howard Hughes flies “Spruce Goose,” a large wooden plane
\nNov 20th – “Meet the Press” debuts
\nDec 3rd – “Streetcar” opens in New York
\n(Full list: http:\/\/www.historyorb.com\/events\/date\/1947?p=3<\/a>)
\nOther cultural info:
\nChristian Dior launched his “new look” (as dubbed by Life Magazine) – departure from wartime military style
\n“Hollywood Glamour” style very much in at this time
\nMass production made ready-to-wear styles much more accessible
\nLife expectancy for a woman was 68, for a man 60
\nPenicillin revolutionized medicine forever only 6 years earlier
\nCommunism\/Marxism\/extreme political theories
\nCollege was becoming available to more and more people, not just wealthy
\nCommerical TV, the first 13\u00a0channels,\u00a0became available to the public<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some important historical events in 1947 (year it was written and in which it was set): Jan 3rd – First televised Congressional opening session Jan 15th\u00a0– “The Black Dahlia” murder Feb 10th – WW II peace treaty signed Mar 13th – “Brigadoon” opens at Ziegfeld, 581 performances Mar 22nd – Truman signs executive order calling … Continue reading 1947 in History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hodge-dialog-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}