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Congress becomes Republican
Halfway through Truman's first term, the midterm elections gave way to a huge Republican Majority in both houses. This signified a party change in presidencies as well, meaning Truman was not going to be re-elected. -
First Levitt Town Announced
Levitt & Sons chose an area known as Island Trees near Hempstead, Long Island as the site for its huge building project after the war. The Company named it Levittown. Levitt's innovation in creating this planned community was to build the houses in the manner of an assembly line. In normal assembly lines, the workers stay stationary and the product moves down the line. In Levitt's homebuilding assembly line, the product (houses) obviously could not move -
Truman orders an end to segregation
President Truman called for a permanent Fair Eemplyment Practices Committee, anti-lynching legislation, and the abolishment of the poll tax. -
Minimum Wage Raised from 40 to 75 cents
The Minimum Wage was raiseed 35 cents in 1949 to compensate for all the consumer goods in America. -
Gwendalyn Brooks wins Pullitzer prize
Gwendalyn Brooks was the first black woman to receive a Pullitzer Prize. -
UNIVAC
The first commercial computer produced in the United States. The first UNIVAC was delivered to the United States Census Bureau on March 31, 1951 and was dedicated on June 14th that year. The fifth machine (built for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission) was used by CBS to predict the result of the 1952 U.S. presidential election. With a sample of 1% of the voting population it predicted Eisenhower's win. -
See it Now
Edward R. Murrow's inauguration of his television news show. -
Golden Arches
McDonald's chooses the Golden Arches as their logo.
