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1947
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World Events
U.S. Events
Economics
US GDP (1998 dollars): $244.6 billion Federal spending: $34.50 billion Federal debt: $257.1 billion Consumer Price Index: 22.3 Unemployment: 3.9% Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.03
Sports
World SeriesNY Yankees d. Brooklyn Dodgers (4-3)NBA ChampionshipPhiladelphia Warriors d. Chicago Stags (4-1)Stanley CupToronto d. Montreal (4-2)WimbledonWomen: Margaret Osborne d. D. Hart (6-2 6-4) Men: Jack Kramer d. T. Brown (6-1 6-3 6-2)Kentucky Derby ChampionJet PilotNCAA Basketball ChampionshipHoly Cross d. Oklahoma (58-47)NCAA Football ChampionsNotre Dame (9-0-0)
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes Fiction: All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren Music: Symphony No. 3, Charles Ives
Oscars awarded in 1947 Academy Award, Best Picture: The Best Years of Our Lives (Goldwyn; RKO Radio) Nobel Prize for Literature: André Gide (France) 1947 Tony Awards Miss America: Barbara Walker (TN) More Entertainment Awards...
Events- The Yankees beat the Dodgers in seven games in the first televised World Series.
- Meet the Press debuts on NBC. The first news show will become television's longest-running program.
- Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire opens at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theatre, with Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski and Jessica Tandy as Blanche DuBois. The play wins the 1948 Pulitzer Prize.
Movies- Gentleman's Agreement, Miracle on 34th Street, Great Expectations, The Bishop's Wife
MusicBooks
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Sir Robert Robinson (UK), for research in plant substances Physics: Sir Edward Appleton (UK), for discovery of layer that reflects radio short waves in the ionosphere Physiology or Medicine: Carl F. and Gerty T. Cori (US), for work on animal starch metabolism; Bernardo A. Houssay (Argentina), for study of pituitary
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