1950s

The 1954 New Zealand election is not very well known or an important turning point. However, I found it was closer than I thought, with the governing National Party having won the popular vote by just 0.2%. If all seats that National got a majority of 720 or less in Labour under Walter Nash...

Hi. First post, though I've been a lurker for a while. I've been fascinated by Project Orion, a proposal for nuclear pulse propulsion from the 1950s. It would've been so much better than chemical rockets, with weight being no object pretty much. Certainly, it would have made space travel much...

"Everyone... Everyone, Please!" The Chairman Bangs His Gavel. "Thank you... By a Vote of 622 to 584... the motion of Fair Play... will not go forward." Boos and Cheers Ring through the Crowd, the Chairman Bangs His Gavel. ---------------------------------- "Delegates... Delegates...

Chapter One: An Alternate Voorhis, An Alternate Nixon (1942-1947) On the Martin Dies Committee, California Congressman Horace Jeremiah "Jerry" Voorhis was an odd man out in many respects: he was at least a social democrat (quite possibly a socialist), and yet he was a serious anti-communist and...

The Solution to Our Problem By Ishan Sharma “Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.” -Ronald Reagan Chapter I From: “Revolutionary: The Reagan Presidency” by Robert Smith (2001) – No one – Democratic or Republican – can deny that Ronald Reagan was the most...

This is a fun challenge that just popped into my head recently.The first drive in theater opened in Camden, NJ in 1933, and in 1958 the number of drive-in movie theaters reached their peak, at 4,063. As of 2013, there were only 357 left. Your challenge is to not have this decline happen, or at...

I am planning on writing a TL about China in the early fifties just after the Civil War ended, but I realized I don't really know all that much. What was China like, say, in 1951 or 1952, how quickly did Mao gain control of the country? What was he early unified government like? We're there...

((Total note here; much of the actual baseball action, which will take a decent amount of the focus, will be simulated using Baseball Mogul 2015. You will notice that the rosters of our main beginning year, 1958, are different than IOTL. To account for the divergence in history, I've begun...