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Before the 1940s, mining was done by hand tools with high labor usage rates and included horse-drawn carts underground.
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Before the cold war began in the late 1940s, Foot favoured a ' third way ' foreign policy for Europe ( he was joint author with Richard Crossman and Ian Mikardo of the pamphlet Keep Left in 1947 ), but in the wake of the communist seizure of power in Hungary and Czechoslovakia he and Tribune took a strongly anti-communist position, eventually embracing NATO.
Before the emergence of the T-formation in the 1940s, all members of the offensive backfield were legitimate threats to run or pass the ball, and most teams used four offensive backs on every play: a quarterback, two halfbacks, and a fullback.
Before the 1940s minor changes occurred in the uniform.
Before the discovery of tetracycline and chloramphenicol during the latter 1940s, as many as 30 percent of persons infected with R. rickettsii died.
Before the 1940s, most artists in St Ives and West Cornwall belonged to the St Ives Society of Artists ; but events in the late 1940s led to a dispute between the abstract and figurative artists in the group.
Before the classic work of Jule Charney and Eric Eady on baroclinic instability in the late 1940s
Before the 1940s, the mosque was also called Masjid-i-Janmasthan (,, translation: " mosque of the birthplace ").
The 1940s brought us Before I Hang ( 1940 ), Black Friday ( 1940 ), Dr. Cyclops ( 1940 ), The Devil Commands ( 1941 ), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1941 ), Man Made Monster ( 1941 ), It Happened Tomorrow ( 1944 ), It Happens Every Spring ( 1949 ), and The Perfect Woman ( 1949 ).
* Dr. Demento Presents the Greatest Novelty Records of All Time Volume I: The 1940s ( and Before ) ( 1985 )
Before pesticide use began in the 1940s ( Refer to Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, chapter 4 ), the gnat was so abundant around the lake in the summer that large piles of dead gnats appeared beneath streetlights, looking like dirty snow.
Before the 1940s, the CNT was the major force in Spanish working class politics, attracting 1. 58 million members at one point and playing a major role in the Spanish Civil War.
Before the two-platoon game became standard in the 1940s, a single platoon game was the norm, where the same players played both offense and defense, each player continuing to hold a position on the field no matter which side had possession of the ball.
The musical stage took priority in the second half of the 1940s with The Day Before Spring on Broadway and both DuBarry Was a Lady and Serenade in London.
Before electrification occurred in rural parts of the United States in the 1940s, some small dairy farms would have tractors but not electric power.
The intros of each episode shown on TV and DVD today are re-issues from the 1950s – 1960s, with the exception of Puss Gets the Boot and The Night Before Christmas, which still retain their original opening and closing credits from the early 1940s.
Before it was commissioned as a federally designated route in the late 1940s, US 460 was Kentucky Route 40 from Lexington to Paintsville and Kentucky Route 4 from Millard to the Virginia state line near Grundy.
Before penicillin became a viable medical treatment in the early 1940s, no true cure for gonorrhea, strep throat, or pneumonia existed.
Before the 1940s, the CNT was the major force in Spanish working class politics, attracting 1. 58 million members at one point and playing a major role in the Spanish Civil War.
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Before being renamed Hollywood cerise in the 1940s, the color had been known, since its inception in 1922, simply as Hollywood.
Before the 1940s the Country team was stronger in numbers due to the number of people who were employed in agriculture.
Before the 1940s " teenagers " were not listed in newspaper headlines, because as a group they did not exist.
Before coaching, he had played for CFR and another well-known local team, Universitatea Cluj, during the 1940s.
Before and mining
Before data mining algorithms can be used, a target data set must be assembled.
Before the coal deposits along the Ruhr were exhausted, the mining industry moved northward to the Emscher and finally to the Lippe, drilling ever deeper mines as it went.
Before 1190 mining was used rarely and the siege engines of the time were largely incapable of damaging the thicker castle walls.
Before the end of the year he had assumed full control of mining operations as the superintendent of the Morris Run Coal Company, a position of authority which he held for the remainder of his working life.
Before the twentieth century, Jordanhill was a poor area, similar to neighbouring Knightswood, with mining for coal at Skaterigg.
Before 1994 the mine was co-owned by Newmont, Buenaventura ( a Peruvian mining company ), and Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières ( BRGM ), a French government-owned company.
Before organizers coordinated schedules with the mining equipment operators, racers often had to contend with heavy machinery blocking the trail or turning it into a muddy path.
Before the Industrial Revolution and the coming of coal mining in the South Wales coalfield the valley was rural and farmed.
Before the middle part of the Victorian era, when coal mining was at its height in County Durham, Cornforth was in the parish of Bishop Middleham.
Before a gathering go 60, 000 people at Wirikuta Fest on May 26, 2012, First Majestic silver announced it had returned some of their mining concessions to the national mining reserve to protect Wirikuta, but the Wixarika Regional Council expose this as a farce.
Before 1994 the mine was co-owned by Newmont, Buenaventura ( a Peruvian mining company ), and Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières ( BRGM ), a French government owned company.
Before entering the mining industry, he either managed a store in Oruro, or spent years in private schools.
Before and was
Before the Draft Act was passed Baker had confidentially briefed governors, sheriffs, and prospective draft board members on the administration of the measure -- and the confidence was kept so well that only one newspaper learned what was going on.
Before the fight was over, the Harlem boy had a concussion and Trig was cut up badly.
Before he left the apartment he knocked on their door and asked if there was anything he could do for them.
Before he left town Pat saw to it that I was fixed up with a job.
Before the airplanes came, he said, travel in Laos was just about impossible.
Before coming on a visit to Spelman in 1885, Miss Mary had been a successful teacher in Worcester, and her position there was held open for her for a considerable period.
Before he was forty Griffith had created the art of the film.
Before appealing to the U.N. or to Russia, he first appealed to the U.S. for military help, and was rejected.
Before her chore was finished she was rescuing wind-blown sheets of music, trundling microphones about the stage, helping to move the piano and otherwise joining in the informal atmosphere.
Before ASCII was developed, the encodings in use included 26 alphabetic characters, 10 numerical digits, and from 11 to 25 special graphic symbols.
Before Europeans discovered other oceans, the term " ocean " itself was synonymous with the waters beyond the Strait of Gibraltar that we now know as the Atlantic.
Before he could pass the river with safety, however, it was necessary to subdue certain fortresses, one of which was for several days vigorously defended by the governor, Yussuf el-Harezmi, a Khwarezmian.
Before the 1989 series began, the win-loss ratio was almost even, with 87 wins for Australia to England's 86, 74 having been drawn.
Before the late modern era, the abbot was treated with the utmost reverence by the brethren of his house.
Before the creation of the world, God was all by Himself, in a Self-absorbed state.
Before the Tennessee electorate voted on secession, Johnson, at his peril, toured the state, speaking in opposition to the measure, contending it was unconstitutional.
Before his death, he was absolved from the excommunication ; moreover, the Pope also promised that the King of Hungary and his relatives would not be excommunicated without the special permission of the Pope.
Before the 2007 season began, Vick was suspended indefinitely by the NFL after pleading guilty to charges involving dog fighting in the state of Virginia.
Before the War, Paul was a creative, sensitive, and passionate person, writing poems and having a clear love for his family.
Before the war Tjaden was a locksmith.
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