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  2. Lillian Wald Houses - Wikipedia

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    The Lillian Wald Houses are a NYCHA housing project on the Lower East Side of Manhattan that honors the housing advocate of the same name. [2] [3] The cornerstone was laid on East Sixth Street and Avenue D in 1947 following a change in state financing laws for which Lillian Wald campaigned.

  3. Parkway Village (Queens) - Wikipedia

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    Parkway Village is a garden apartment complex with 675 residential units, located on 35 acres (14 ha) in the Briarwood section of Queens in New York City. [2] It was completed in 1947 to house United Nations employees and delegates, many of whom had faced racial discrimination when they sought housing in other areas.

  4. National Security Act of 1947 - Wikipedia

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    National Security Act of 1947; Long title: An Act to promote the national security by providing for a Secretary of Defense; for a National Military Establishment; for a Department of the Army, a Department of the Navy, a Department of the Air Force; and for the coordination of the activities of the National Military Establishment with other departments and agencies of the Government concerned ...

  5. Eberstadt Report - Wikipedia

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    By the end of the War, the "Eberstadt Report" proposed a post-war security organization which would include a National Security Council which would take over the functions performed by the SWNCC. This was the original "Eberstadt Report", a report to the Honorable James Forrestal on Unification of the War and Navy Departments and Postwar ...

  6. History of the Central Intelligence Agency - Wikipedia

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    The lives of 139 fallen CIA officers are represented by 139 stars on the CIA Memorial Wall in the Original Headquarters building.. The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) dates from September 18, 1947, when President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 into law.

  7. National Security Resources Board - Wikipedia

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    The National Security Resources Board was a United States government agency created by the National Security Act of 1947 whose purpose was to advise the President, in times of war, on how to mobilize natural resources, manpower, and the scientific establishment to meet the demands of the Department of Defense.

  8. Category:1947 in New York City - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "1947 in New York City" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.

  9. Arthur Adams (spy) - Wikipedia

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    In 1947, Isaac Don Levine mentioned Adams in the anti-communist magazine Plain Talk: The missing figure of Stalin 's ace agent in the atomic spy ring, usually described as "going under the name of Arthur Adams," can now be identified, believe it or not, as a Canadian whose real name is Arthur Adams.