1946

The salary cap in 1946-47 was $55,000 with an average player earning between $4,000 and $5,000. The NBA continued without a cap until 1984–85. The league brought back the salary cap in an effort to level the playing field among all of the NBA's teams and ensure competitive…

Soviet Union believed United States wanted to make the world safe for capitalism, reducing their chances to get economic resources. And the United States saw the Soviet Union as wanting to spread communism which goes against free markets. On February 9, 1946, Staling delivered a speech to Russians to make sacrifices to enhance national security. By proclaiming that communism was a better organization than capitalism, and that future wars were inevitable unless communism prevailed over…

which enabled families with children receive 25p per week to support their family in order for them to have a standard minimum living (Glennerster, 2000). As a result of this, in 1946 the National Insurance was implemented to give benefit or compensation for workers who got injured at work. It was then updated in late 1946 to give benefits to people who are unemployed, widows, and mothers on maternity leave, pensioners, sickness allowance and death grants (Pearce, 1994). This was considered to…

An inspiring major change happened to the world when jack Roosevelt Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball on April 15, 1947. Being an African American man he did not have as many rights or privileges as a Caucasian man would have had during that time. Mr. Jerry Robinson and Mrs. Mallie Robinson had five children, jack being the youngest. Jack r Robinson, is well known by the name of Jackie Robinson. His middle name is in honor of former president Theodore Roosevelt, who had…

Thesis Statement IB History of the Americas Period 6 Cesar Medrano Ms. Karyl Haden Thesis:It is unbelievable to think that one person can have an affect on a whole country. Mussolini inspired hitler and person to run their country in very different ways. Both of them had different mindsets making them each run their country in their own way Germany - Hitler Argentina - Peron Origins Rise to power In september 1919 Hitler joined DAP (Deutsche…

Quality Food – Quality Education Poor dietary intake can lead to low energy levels, obesity, drowsiness, and in some more extreme circumstances, blindness, mental retardation, and even death (Barbosa Gonçalves, Thimoteo da Cunha, Stedefeldt, & de Rosso, 2015). Receiving a healthy and wholesome nutrition is vital to ones education, productivity levels, and overall well-being. It is imperative that our schools provide only the most nutritional school lunches and snacks for our students to…

mean no Bolsheviks.”( Behrman 29) And the United States was convinced through several statements and actions delivered by Stalin that he was more than willing to exploit this opportunity and take advantage of the sick and the suffering. On February 9, 1946 at the Bolshoi Theatre, Stalin delivered a speech in…

television can also be traced to science. Television was a visual extension of a radio. The first attempts at commercial television emerged in 1925 in both the United States and England. By 1946, synthesis of four different designs led to a much better receiver. Televisions could be found in eight-thousand American homes in 1946, one million by 1949, ten million by 1951, and forty-five million- 90 percent of all homes- by 1960. In 1967, 95 percent of American homes consumed an average of five…

Shrike, Stalag 17, The Fourposter, Twentieth Century, Carmelina, My Three Angels, and The Andersonville Trial. Ferrer is remembered the best for his performance in “Cyrano de Bergerac” which he first played on Broadway in 1946. The production became one of the hits of the 1946/47 Broadway season, winning Ferrer the first Best Actor Tony Award. He was the first Puerto Rican actor, as well as the first Hispanic actor, to…

In her early years, she grew up on a wheat farm in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Her mother, Ida Totto was much with Hungarian heritage and her father Francis Calixtus O'Keeffe was Irish. While being the second of seven children she was taught at a young age to become well educated. Georgia developed an interest in painting and the natural world. She was taught how to paint by a local artist. After she completed high school she attended that art institute of Chicago, she was ranked at the top of…