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The population
of the United States as reported by the 1950 Census is 150,697,361. The population of
the world is approximately 2.5 billion. More 1950 Census Info |
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The population
of the world is 2.52 billion |
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64% of
Americans now live in cities |
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There
are 1,667,231 marriages to 385,144 divorces (23%). By 1998 there will be 2,256,000 marriages and 955,000 divorces (43%) |
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Median
age for 1st marriage is 22.8 years old for men and 20.3 for women. By 1998, it will be 26.7 years old for men and 25 for women.
Noting statistics one above, you can assume older but no wiser. Marriage prospects of single men and women. |
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A.C.
Nielsen's Audimeters track viewer watching. |
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Walt
Disney's Cinderella opens in theaters. |
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Sugar
Pops are introduced. |
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Antihistamines
enter popular use for treatment of allergies and head-colds. |
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RCA 45
RPM record attachment - now you can play RCA’s new 45’s! - includes 6 records - $12.95 |
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Zenith
introduces "lazy bones" tuning - change all television stations from the comfort of your easy chair. Hand held device plugs into TV. |
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Silly Putty is introduced! |
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And the
winner is... Oscar stuff |
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21.6
percent of wives worked outside the home. By 1960, that number hit 30.5 percent. The reason for the jump? There was simply
so much to buy. |
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The Pillsbury
Company launches it's annual "Bake-off" to promote flour. |
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Pillsbury
and General Mills introduce prepared cake mixes. |
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CBS receives
an FCC license to begin broadcasting in color. |
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Ball-O-Fire
gumballs arrive! |
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KRAFT®
Deluxe process cheese slices - the first commercially packaged sliced process cheese - are introduced. |
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North Korea invades South Korea. Truman orders the U.S. into the war. 3 million soldiers and civilians will be killed or wounded before
it ends in 1953. |
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36.3%
of all advertising dollars are spent on newspapers - 3.3% on TV. |
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The U.S. will import 21,287 passenger cars. That number will climb to 668,070 by 1959, which will be a stellar year for
imports. |
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Hank
Snow makes his first appearance on the "Grand Ole Opry" |
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Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd, debuted on TV and 600,000 Hoppy lunchboxes were sold in 1950 alone |
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Seeburg
begins selling jukeboxes which play 45 RPM records, which would become THE jukebox for soda shop, bowling alleys and bars. |
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Nobel
for literature awarded to William Faulkner |
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Paul
Harvey begins his national radio broadcast |
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Death
penality abolished in Belgium |
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Prince
Rainier III becomes ruler of Monaco |
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Brinks Robbery in Boston - 11 men - 2.8 million - 17
minutes |
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Alger Hiss is convicted. |
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Joseph
McCarthy begins Soviet witch hunt. |
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Leo Fender's
guitar company introduced their Broadcaster and Esquire models, the first mass-produced solid body electric guitars. |
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Smokey the Bear gains national popularity. |
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Minute
Rice is launched with the first consumer advertising ever put behind rice. |
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The Open
Kettle, a coffe and donut shop in Quincy Mass.
is renamed Dunkin' Donuts. The first franchise is offerred in 1955. |
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PaperMate
is the first leak-proof ballpoint pen in 1950. |
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Haloid
Corporation (later renamed Xerox) develops the first xerographic copy machine. |
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Tennis
admits first Black woman, Althea Gibson. |
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There
are now 2,200 drive-in movie theatres, twice as many as in 1949. |
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Diner's Club becomes the first credit card. |
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Peanuts debuted on October 2, 1950. |
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FBI institutes
the 10 Most Wanted list. Wanna see the current crop of Bad Guys? |
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Cartoonist
Hank Ketcham created one of the most enduringly irresistible imps in the world., "Dennis the Menace." By 2000,Today the comic
panel appears in more than 1,200 newspapers in 48 countries and in 19 languages. |
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There
are 407 beer breweries in operation. |
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Nobel
peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche. This first Black recipient was undersecretary of the U.N. at the time. |
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Telephone
Answering Machine created by Bell Laboratories and Western Electric. |
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Mother
Teresa founded the first Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India. |
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President
Harry Truman ordered the Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike. |
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There
are 10,500,000 TV sets in 10,400,000 homes. |
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The first
self-service elevator is installed by Otis Elevator in Dallas
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There
was a 34.3% business failure rate. Chart for 1946-1964 |
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There
were 34,763 motor vehicle related deaths. While in the air, there were 6 accidents resulting in 144 fatalities. |
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Unemployment
is 5.3% |
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US GNP (Gross National Product) is $288.5 billion |
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