Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

He would entertain as many as 500 persons of rank at one time, besides relieving the poor of the vicinity twice a week.

About 500 amino acids are known which can be classified in many ways.

Over 500, 000 objects from the department are now on the online collection database, many with high quality images.

In 2008, Anheuser-Busch became Kasey Kahne's primary sponsor, and has also sponsored many races, including the Budweiser Shootout, and previously The Bud at the Glen, Budweiser 500, and Budweiser 400.

There was no shortage of recruits, many of them unemployed First World War army veterans, and by November 1921 about 9, 500 men had joined.

Additionally, though 60 % of the Fortune 500 companies have a Chief Diversity Officer ( CDO ) or Diversity leadership position, this and many other C-level titles are not necessarily universally recognized as Corporate Officers, and tend to be specific to particular organizational cultures or preferences as employees.

In Serbia a copper axe was found at Prokuplje, which indicates that humans were using metals in Europe by 7, 500 years ago (~ 5, 500 BC ), many years earlier than previously believed.

In the most common system, multiple television channels ( as many as 500 ) are distributed to subscriber residences through a coaxial cable, which comes from a trunkline supported on utility poles originating at the cable company's local distribution facility, called the headend.

The employers consists of top ranked multinational law firms, banks, corporations, and many Fortune 500 companies, such as Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, and Procter & Gamble.

Chemists were reported to carry out as many as 500 to 600 distillations in order to obtain a pure compound.

Almagro was able to put together a force of 500 men, many of which had come with him to Peru.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Radio broadcast stations: AM 41, FM about 3, 500 ( this figure is an approximation and includes many repeaters ), shortwave 2 ( 1998 )

More than 1, 500 people were wounded and many people went missing or were detained.

Large galaxies can have more: Andromeda, for instance, may have as many as 500.

The city is believed to have had as many as 23, 500 residents — considered large for its time.

However, four chimpanzee teeth, about 500, 000 years old, have recently been discovered in the rift valley, where many fossils from the human lineage ( hominins ) have previously been found.

This interpretation may omit as few as 21, 500 Irish-born present in the country, as many as 29, 500, or possibly even more.

Several million dollars value of HOURS have been traded since 1991 among thousands of residents and over 500 area businesses, including the Cayuga Medical Center, Alternatives Federal Credit Union, the public library, many local farmers, movie theatres, restaurants, healers, plumbers, carpenters, electricians, and landlords.

As many as 1, 500 earthquakes are recorded yearly, and magnitudes of four to six on the Richter scale are common.

Observers claim that the Chinese community in Angola might include as many as 300, 000 persons at the end of 2010, but nothing near to reliable statistics are at this stage available on this point.

Another popular method of exploiting this bug was to simply use thrust to keep the ship in motion with 1 or 2 asteroids in the play field, allowing the player to pick off as many 1, 000 point UFOs as possible.

Achill has a long history of human settlement and there is evidence that Achill was inhabited as many as 5, 000 years ago.

Official statistics show that as many 575, 000 tourists visited Armenia from abroad in 2009 ; the government stated earlier in 2010 that the figure will surpass 620, 000 in 2010.

Ibn Yunus observed more than 10, 000 entries for the sun's position for many years using a large astrolabe with a diameter of nearly 1. 4 metres.

* 1989 – The deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1, 300, injuring 12, 000, and leaving as many as 80, 000 homeless.

* 1991 – A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around, killing at least 138, 000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless.

The book made many Americans appreciate their country's economic progress and sold over 40, 000 copies, mostly in the U. S.

According to Plato, Atlantis was a naval power lying " in front of the Pillars of Hercules " that conquered many parts of Western Europe and Africa 9, 000 years before the time of Solon, or approximately 9600 BC.

Today the BHS has over 30, 000 members in 800 chapters across the United States, and the barbershop style has spread around the world with organizations in many other countries.

This is a total of over 24, 000 jobs, since Aarau's population is about 16, 000 it draws workers from many surrounding communities.

The Vietnam Red Cross reported as many as 3 million Vietnamese people have been affected by Agent Orange, including at least 150, 000 children born with birth defects.

On 24 April 1826 over 1, 000 men and women, many armed, gathered at Whinney Hill in Clayton-le-Moors to listen to a speaker from where they marched on Sykes ’ s Mill at Higher Grange Lane, near the site of the modern police station and Magistrate ’ s Courts, and smashed over 60 looms.

Tallard's force had suffered considerably more than Marlborough's troops on their march – many of his cavalry horses were suffering from glanders, and the mountain passes were proving tough for the 2, 000 wagons of provisions.

La Colonie omits a casualty figure in his Chronicles of an old Campaigner ; but Saint-Simon in his Memoirs states 4, 000 killed, adding ' many others were wounded and many important persons were taken prisoner '.

There are nearly 20, 000 known species of bees in seven to nine recognized families, though many are undescribed and the actual number is probably higher.

Over 350, 000 objects spanning two million years tells the story of the history of man, from three major continents and many rich and diverse cultures.

New Zealand formerly used the term borough to designate self-governing towns of more than 1, 000 people, although 19th century census records show many boroughs with populations as low as 200.

In 2004, the government discovered that many of the soldiers it was paying did not exist and that there were only about 19, 000 soldiers in the army, as opposed to the 24, 000 that had been previously believed.

Now let us imagine a wing of B-52's, on alert near their `` positive control ( or fail-safe ) points '', the spots on the map, many miles from Soviet territory, beyond which they are forbidden to fly without specific orders to proceed to their targets.

The Twenty-second Soviet Communist Party Congress opens in Moscow today in a situation contrasting sharply with the script prepared many months ago when this meeting was first announced.

And there must be many Soviet citizens who know what is going on and who realize that before they can hope to enjoy the full life promised for 1980 they and their children must first survive.

and with sober purpose, because the development of Prokofieff personifies, in many ways, the course of music in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

As American artists, it was natural that we would want to meet as many Soviet artists as possible.

I encountered many questions and great interest upon my return from the Soviet Union about my reactions to that experience.

Newly independent Armenia needed the income from foreign sales of Nairit rubber and chemical products, many of which had been assigned exclusively to that plant under the Soviet system and were still unavailable elsewhere to the former Soviet republics in the early 1990s.

In the Dymshits – Kuznetsov hijacking affair on 15 June 1970, a group of Soviet refuseniks attempted to hijack a civilian aircraft in order to escape to the West, were caught and spent many years in Soviet prisons.

Unlike many former Soviet bloc militaries, discipline and morale problems are not common.

While many older Soviet and European cars remain in service in Cuba, they are largely eclipsed by the island's great 1950s Cadillacs, Packards, De Sotos and similar products from one of the most ornate styling periods in U. S. auto history.

Of Cuba's vintage American cars, many have been modified with newer engines, disc brakes and other parts, often scavenged from Soviet cars, and most bear the marks of decades of use.

Almost all of them were sent to POW camps in Siberia or Central Asia where, due to being chronically underfed by their Soviet captors, many resorted to cannibalism.

Nomenklatura enjoyed many perquisites denied to the average Soviet citizen.

Soviet social science became free to explore and publish on many subjects that had previously been off limits, including conducting public opinion polls.

The process was characterized by many of the republics of the Soviet Union declaring their independence and being recognized as sovereign nation-states.

Beginning in the 1980s and 1990s, many governments presiding over planned economies began marketization ( or as in the Soviet Union, the system collapsed ) and moving toward market-based economies by allowing individual enterprises to make the pricing, production, and distribution decisions, granting autonomy to state enterprises and ultimately expanding the scope of the private sector through privatization.

While many socialist currents advocated economic planning as an eventual substitute for the market for factors of production, some define economic planning as being based on worker-self management, with production being carried out to directly satisfy human needs, and contrast this with the concept of a command economy of the Soviet Union, which they characterize as being based on a top-down bureaucratic administration of the economy in a similar fashion to a capitalist firm.

Consequently hahnium was the name that most American and Western European scientists used and appears in many papers published at the time, and nielsbohrium was used in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries.

Environment – current issues: air heavily polluted with sulfur dioxide from oil-shale burning power plants in northeast ; contamination of soil and groundwater with petroleum products, chemicals at former Soviet military bases ; Estonia has more than 1, 400 natural and artificial lakes, the smaller of which in agricultural areas are heavily affected by organic waste ; coastal sea water is polluted in many locations.

As with Latvia many immigrants entered Estonia under Soviet encouragement.

Under this policy, Albania would develop its agricultural output in order to supply the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations while these nations would be developing specific resource outputs of their own, which would in theory strengthen the Warsaw Pact by greatly reducing the lack of certain resources that many of the nations faced.

In 1956 at the Twentieth Party Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Khrushchev condemned the cult of personality that had been built up around Joseph Stalin and also accused him of many grave mistakes.

* 1939 – 1945: In World War II many countries are occupied by Germany and the Soviet Union, where Esperanto organisations often were prohibited or Esperanto activities were limited in other ways.