With the beginning of Clark's Hardwood Lumber Company....
The Academy Awards Oscar for Best Song went to "The Archison, Topkea and the Santa Fe" sung by the Andrews Sisters.
The 'Baby-Boom' continued here when World War II veterans and their families began building new homes in a growing Houston.
The First International Film Festival was held in Cannes France; at the same time, a two-piece bathing suit name after an island in the South Pacific - the bikini - came into fashion.
CARE packages (Co-operatives American Remittances to Europe) were sent to aid a slowly recovering Europe.
Skyscrapers were beginning to rise above Downtown Houston, where Foley's would open the next year to provide Houston shoppers with revolutionary design and merchandising.
The Houston Buffaloes were playing baseball in an all wooden stadium on the Gulf Freeway.
Ernst Hoffman was conducting the Houston Symphony Orchestra.
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