Osceola, Indiana · 20th century
1940s
22 dated events in 1940s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 22 dated mentions
1940s
- 1940–1956The colour line at the desk: the Green Book test, run in the book itself
Who could not register is tested here in the instrument built for the question: the Negro Motorist Green Book , read for this ground across the editions openly available — 1940, 1949, the Smithsonian-transcribed edition, and the Fall 1956 edition (New York Public Library / Schomburg).
- 1940–1993Location productions: tested negative for Osceola, the checklist pair dug at boundary
The checklist pair, at boundary, because they are the county's whole location canon: Knute Rockne, All American (1940; Pat O'Brien as Rockne, Ronald Reagan as George Gipp) was made with the University of Notre Dame's cooperation on its campus…
- 1940–2009The bus era whole: the private successor, the public corporation, and Osceola's seventy-five-year blank
The bus era in the two cities ran private, then public: when the streetcars ended in 1940 the buses that replaced them ran under private operation, and the era's dominant carrier was Northern Indiana Transit, which held South Bend–Mishawaka bus service until 1967.
- 1940–2026The conversion, and what farms remain, as of November 2026
The township's west became a suburb on the town's own curve: the town of Osceola more than doubled in the 1940s (498 in 1940, 1,091 in 1950) and stands at 2,590 in 2020, its growth "by the subdivision street rather than by the factory gate" (the Story of Osceola section), and Mishawaka's annexations took parts of Penn…
- 1941–1945War flows: trucks to Russia, the Persian Corridor, and its echo
Under contract from April 1941, Studebaker's South Bend plant built the US6 2½-ton truck from June 1941 to August 1945: 197,678 trucks built at South Bend (plus 22,204 identical trucks license-built by REO at Lansing — the license line of art-60-6, kept distinct), most of them for Lend-Lease, primarily for the Red Army…
- 1941–1945Migration and the industrial ceiling, together
At Bendix, the civil-rights attorney J. Chester Allen (art-68-6) persuaded the company, against the pressure of the June 1941 executive order opening defence work, to hire its first six Black workers in 1941…
- 1941–1968The counter-moves, dated: defence housing, the street bought in secret, the mapped district, and the ordinance's month
Boundary — the counter-moves, each with its date: the housing authority created in 1941 built its first two defence-housing projects segregated by design…
- 1941–1976Don M. Newman — Sagamore of the Wabash (twice), and the state's Outstanding Pharmacist, 1970
99-604) lists his honors whole: the Elliott D. Vorinck Award (Riley High School, 1941); the Glen Jenkins Award (Purdue, as a freshman pharmacist, 1942); Outstanding Pharmacist, State of Indiana, 1970 ; the Distinguished Alumni Award of the Indiana University South Bend Alumni Association, 1976; and the Sagamore of the Wabash — twice .
- 1942–1945The war years at both fields — part dug, part named gap; the base that went elsewhere
Renamed Cadet Field , the old South Bend Airport northeast of the city had its official opening under that name reported by the Tribune on 9 August 1942, and the Tribune's reports of 23 March 1942 stand behind the cadet name in the transportation-history account — a training-flavoured name for a training-era field.
- 1944–1965Vietnam: one name — Private First Class James Noble Kalil
The man, at the record's full strength: the Virtual Wall's Indiana page carries exactly one name under OSCEOLA, and its memorial page for him reads: "James Noble Kalil / Private First Class / A CO, 1ST AMTRAC BN, 3RD MARDIV, III MAF / United States Marine Corps / Osceola, Indiana / March 25, 1944 to August 18, 1965 /…
- 1944–2018The scholar and the labor leader
Mark L. Smith (5 June 1944 – 4 December 2015) — his Des Moines obituary: "Mark was born on June 5, 1944 in Chicago to Elsa and Don Smith.
- 1945Harry B. Kincaid Jr.: Osceola's man, on a Mishawaka enlistment
The extension, from open sources: the American Battle Monuments Commission's burial record for Lorraine American Cemetery at St. Avold, France — matched on the serial number 35557270, which is what carries the identification, not the surname…
- 1946–1951The home drivers' roll: the names the quarter-mile kept
From the speedway's founding and first seasons: Charlie Van Acker and Charlie Szekendy, driver-builders both; Dick Good, Ebe Yoder and Bob Newton, the early midget favourites of 1946.
- 1946–2024The home speedway whole: South Bend Motor Speedway — built by its drivers, its operators, its last lap
It was built by its drivers, literally: the South Bend Auto Racing Association, headed by Joe Kovatch with thirteen others including local drivers Charlie Van Acker and Charlie Szekendy, built the track over a two-year period, and it opened on Friday night, 23 August 1946.
- 1947Case: 5 July 1947 — the first-wave report
The county's first entry is a press-wave report, and it is printed at exactly that size: eleven days after Arnold, in the nationwide rash of Independence Day weekend sightings that Alfred Loedding's history of the 1947 wave reconstructs day by day, South Bend appears in the wave's own chronicle among the cities…
- 1947–1969The national frame: 1947 and the Air Force investigations, stated once
The file system every local case below is checked against: in the summer of 1947, beginning with Kenneth Arnold's sighting of 24 June 1947 over the Cascades, the United States received its first great wave of “flying saucer” reports — over 800 reports made publicly in five weeks, by the wave's own chronicle…
- 1947–1969The Blue Book ledger for the county, compiled whole and split by ground
The county's official file, every case the open official indexes name: (1) 5 July 1947, South Bend — press-wave report in the 1947 chronology; no case file, no disposition.
- 1947–2021Children's, young-reader, nature, and field-guide writing
Phillip Hoose was born in South Bend on 31 May 1947 and grew up between South Bend, Angola, and Speedway. His Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (2009) won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature; We Were There, Too!
- 1947–todayThe locally born supermarket chain: Martin's Super Markets, born on Portage Avenue in 1947
Martin's Super Markets was founded in South Bend in 1947 by Martin and Jane Tarnow: on 15 September 1947 the Tarnows opened a neighbourhood "mom and pop" grocery in the 1500 block of Portage Avenue with $200 in cash (Martin Lewis Tarnow Jr.'s obituary, South Bend Tribune, August 1998…
- 1948Case: 13 October 1948 — the disc over the Studebaker works
The case is a Project Sign case, and the modern study of the Sign files ranks it pointedly: a much better sighting, that study argues, than the famous Gorman dogfight of 1 October 1948 that has overshadowed it.
- 1949–2010The community mental health centre founded whole: Madison Center
Madison Center — founded 1949, a nonprofit providing comprehensive mental-health and substance-abuse services — was this county's community mental health centre: its own designation-era description gives its catchment as St. Joseph, Elkhart, LaPorte, Marshall and Porter counties, staffed by board-certified…
- 1949–2025Ground growth priced; the authority
The terminal line: the 1949 terminal was built for 25,000 passengers a year and handled some 400,000; the present terminal was built in 1981 (HOK and Cole Associates) and expanded in 2011, with additions in 1986 and 1994 bringing the complex to roughly 155,000 square feet in authority-side accounts.