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• USS Chincoteague (AVP-24)
  |Ship fate=Loaned to [[United States Coast Guard]] 7 March 1949<br/>Transferred outright to Coast Guard 26 September 1966 ...incoteague (WAVP-375)|USCGC ''Chincoteague'' (WAVP-375)]], later WHEC-375, 1949-1972<br/>Served in [[South Vietnamese Navy]] as [[patrol vessel]] [[RVNS Ly
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• USS Bering Strait (AVP-34)
  ...ng Strait (WAVP-382)|USCGC ''Bering Strait'' (WAVP-382)]], later WHEC-382, 1949-1971<br/>Served as South Vietnamese [[patrol vessel]] [[RVNS Tran Quang Kha ...her permanently to the Coast Guard on September 26, 1966. Commissioned in 1949 as [[USCGC Bering Strait (WAVP-382)|USCGC ''Bering Strait'' (WAVP-382)]] an
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• USS Cook Inlet (AVP-36)
  ...C Cook Inlet (WAVP-384)|USCGC ''Cook Inlet'' (WAVP-384)]], later WHEC-384, 1949-1971<br/>Served as South Vietnamese [[patrol vessel]] [[RVNS Tran Quoc Toan ...SCGC Cook Inlet (WAVP-384)|USCGC ''Cook Inlet'' (WAVP-384)]] on 15 January 1949 and was redesignated a [[high endurance cutter]] and reclassified as WHEC-3
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• USS Casco (AVP-12)
  |Ship fate=Loaned to [[U.S. Coast Guard]] 19 April 1949<br/>Returned to [[U.S. Navy]] March 1969<br/>Sunk as target 15 May 1969 ...r]] [[USCGC Casco (WAVP-370)|USCGC ''Casco'' (WAVP-370)]], later WHEC-370, 1949-1969
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• USS Humboldt (AVP-21)
  |Ship fate=Loaned to [[U.S. Coast Guard]], 24 January 1949<br/>Transferred permanently to Coast Guard 26 September 1966<br/>Transferre ...USCGC Humboldt (WAVP-372)|USCGC ''Humboldt'' (WAVP-372)]], later WHEC-372, 1949-1969
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• USS Coos Bay (AVP-25)
  |Ship fate=Loaned to [[U.S. Coast Guard]] 4 May 1949<br/>Returned to U.S. Navy 2 September 1967<br/>Sunk as target 9 January 196 ...utter|cutter]] [[USCGC Coos Bay (WAVP-376)|USCGC ''Coos Bay'' (WAVP-386)]] 1949-1966
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• USS Rockaway (AVP-29)
  ...)|USCGC ''Rockaway'' (WAVP-377)]], later WAGO-377, WHEC-377, and WOLE-377, 1949-1972<br>Sold for scrapping 1972 ...GC ''Rockaway'' (WAVP-377)]], later WAGO-377, WHEC-377, and WOLE-377, from 1949 to 1972.
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• USS Unimak (AVP-31)
  ...] [[USCGC Unimak (WAVP-379)|USCGC ''Unimak'' (WAVP-379)]], later WHEC-379, 1949-1975 and 1977-1988 ...Coast Guard on 26 September 1966. During her first period in commission (1949-1975), she was stationed successively at Boston, Massachusetts; [[Cape May,
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• USS Biscayne (AVP-11)
  ...sioned as [[USCGC Dexter (WAVP-385)|USCGC ''Dexter'' (WAGC-18)]] on 8 June 1949. She was later redesignated WAVP-385. Based at Boston, ''Dexter'' served on ...{{'}}s All the World{{'}}s Fighting Ships 1922-1946''. New York: Mayflower Books, Inc., 1980. ISBN 0-8317-0303-2.
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• Barnegat class seaplane tender
  ...'-class]] [[United States Coast Guard Cutter|cutters]] -- between 1946 and 1949 for service mostly as weather reporting ships, a role they played until the ...WAVP-385, later WHEC-385, and was in commissioned Coast Guard service from 1949 to 1952 and from 1958 to 1968.<ref name="DANFSBiscayne">{{cite web |last=''
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• Sentry gun
  ...sed to pin down a group of rebelling colonists in [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s 1949 novel ''[[Red Planet (novel)|Red Planet]]''. [[Michael Crichton]]'s version ...ional versions of the sentry gun that are used primarily against humans in books, movies, and video games.
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• Airspeed Oxford
  ...lgian control as the Militaire Vliegwezen (became the Belgian Air Force in 1949), the RAF donated thirty Oxfords to form a flying training school. They wer ...ferred to the Royal Indian Air Force, later Indian Air Force from December 1949.<ref name="ab-others" />
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• Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...of the Board of Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica since its inception in 1949, and its chair from 1974; director of editorial planning for the 15th editi ...sbn = 0-8389-7823-1 | author = reviews by the Editorial Board of Reference Books Bulletin ; revised introduction by Sandy Whiteley.}}</ref> Various editions
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• Mortimer J. Adler
  === Great Books and Beyond === ...he Board of Editors of [[Encyclopædia Britannica]] since its inception in 1949, and succeeded Hutchins as its chairman from 1974. As the director of edito
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• Dictionary of Australian Biography
  The '''''Dictionary of Australian Biography''''', published in 1949, is a reference work by [[Percival Serle]] containing information on notabl <ref>Serle, Percival, 1949. [http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/00-dict-biogIndex.html#preface Dictionar
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• The World Factbook
  ...thout permission as required by the ''[[Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949]]'' ({{UnitedStatesCode|50|403m}}). ...assys-WFB-cover.jpg|thumb|right|100px|''The World Factbook'' 2010 (Potomac Books reprint edition) cover]]
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• Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963
  The '''Act''' stemmed from the 1949 [[Gowers Report]] which had already led to the [[Mines and Quarries Act 195 ...submit | publisher=Butterworth-Heinemann | id=ISBN 0750654937 }} ([[Google Books]])
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• Air safety
  ...]] in 1938. A form of ILS was adopted by the ICAO for international use in 1949. {{Wikipedia-Books|Aviation}}
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• Ergonomics
  ...er, is now widely attributed to British psychologist Hywel Murrell, at the 1949 meeting at the UK's [[Admiralty House, London|Admiralty]], which led to the ;Books
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• Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
  ...[1949]] that:<ref>''Edwards v. The National Coal Board'' [1949] 1 KB 704; [1949] 1 All ER 743</ref><ref>{{ cite web | title=Principles and guidelines to as ...| isbn=0754623386 | edition=2nd | year=2005 | page=''p.''217 }} ([[Google Books]])</ref><ref>{{ cite book | title=Product Liability | author=Clark, A. M. |
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