Documents in Year 1947                     

Links of Interest:

• Harry S. Truman, Thirty-third U.S. President

(1945-1953)

• Statehood

48 Continental United States of America, see 1959 for next addition

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• Entertainment: Thirteen stations began broadcasting commercial television in 1947.

• Food: Pillsbury and General Mills launch cake mixes.
  Anderson, Jean American Century Cookbook. p 247

• Technology: Reynolds Metals rolls out aluminum foil. Raytheon manufactures the Radarange "electronic oven," the forerunner of the modern microwave.
  Anderson, Jean American Century Cookbook. p 247