Before completion of the construction, SAC activated the 351st Strategic Missile Wing at Whiteman on Feb. 1, 1963.

Before the completion of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Frankfort was on the direct route from Winchester to Wheeling over which hundreds of tons of merchandise passed monthly.

Before the mural ’ s completion in 1940, however, Siqueiros was forced into hiding and later jailed for his links to an attempt to assassinate Leon Trotsky, then in exile in Mexico City from the Soviet Union.

Before the completion of this game, Jim Walls had left Sierra for reasons that have still not been publicly explained, leaving Jane Jensen to finish the final in-game dialogue and messages.

Before its completion, Toronto City Council made arrangements for the Government of Canada to take over the field, which was christened Bishop Field ( to honour the same flying ace for which the island airport was later renamed after ) in 1939.

Before the completion in 1270 a long time of construction must have preceded it.

Before the completion of the Haight Street Cable Railroad in 1883, what is now the Haight-Ashbury was a collection of isolated farms and acres of sand dunes.

Before the completion of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, in 1772, it consisted of two small communities, Upper and Lower Mitton at the junction of the River Severn and the River Stour.

Before the completion of the Lake Washington Ship Canal in 1916 lowered the level of Lake Washington, the peninsula was an island with points, or " noses ", at the north and south ends.

Before completion of the Indiana portion of I-94, the freeway ended at the present exit 1.

Before the completion of I-69 near Marshall in late 1967, US 27 followed 17 Mile Road and Kalamazoo Avenue into Marshall.

Before the completion of the Interstate system, U. S. Highway 70 was sometimes referred to as the " Broadway of America ", due to its status as one of the main east – west thoroughfares in the nation.

Before the final section, a bonus level that had Bullwinkle running to the end of a football field to catch Rocky, while avoiding and head-butting football players on the way, could grant the player an extra life upon completion.

Before the reconstruction it was called the New Inn, but on completion it was decided to honour the Hood family who had occupied a Georgian house that was originally on the site of the New Inn, who had a long naval history and whose name has been used on many battleships.

Before leaving Scotland for Jamaica, Macneill had commenced a poem, founded on a Highland tradition ; and to the completion of this production he assiduously devoted himself during his homeward voyage.

Before completion, VfL Wolfsburg played their home games at the 20, 500 capacity VfL-Stadium, where the amateur squad still plays.

Before the completion of Highway 401 in the 1960s, West Hill was one of the major shopping areas in the region.

Before its completion, he died in the summer of 720.

Before the completion of the Maasvlakte it was a sandbank which was hazardous to shipping.

Before the completion of the freeway, from 1968 to 1992, the neighborhood was known for prostitution, drugs, drive-by shootings, and gangs.

Before completion of the canal in 1900, the sewage in the Chicago River flowed into Lake Michigan, the city's drinking water supply.

Before the completion of High Speed 1 in November 2007, twelve Eurostar trains a day called, heading to Paris ( 7 trains ) or Brussels ( 5 ).

Before completion of the Hyperion Schubert Edition Johnson undertook recording, devising the programmes for each disc, and writing the liner notes for the Complete Songs of Robert Schumann, and initiated a recorded cycle of the Lieder of Johannes Brahms.

Before construction was completed on the reactor vessels and facilities, at least three groups joined in a 1981 lawsuit to halt Byron Nuclear Generating Station's completion.

Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado ( see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak ).

Before the advent of rock and roll, concept albums had their original heyday in jazz of the early to mid ' 50s with artists such as Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra, the latter of whom would record numerous concept albums for Capitol throughout the last half of the ' 50s such as In the Wee Small Hours, Come Fly with Me, Where Are You?

Before Christmas 1955, Brantley had the group record a demo of " Please, Please, Please " for a local Macon radio station.

Before long, a more advanced pantograph-based process made it possible to simultaneously produce 90 – 150 copies of each record.

Before Eldredge and Gould alerted their colleagues to the prominence of stasis in the fossil record, most evolutionists considered stasis to be rare or unimportant.

Before the advent of disk operating systems and the ability to record large data files, core dumps were paper printouts of the contents of memory, typically arranged in columns of octal or hexadecimal numbers ( a " hex dump "), sometimes accompanied by their interpretations as machine language instructions, text strings, or decimal or floating-point numbers ( cf.

Before the band entered Rockfield Studios in Wales to record their debut album, McGurk was asked to leave the band.

Before flying on Apollo, he set a fourteen-day spaceflight endurance record on Gemini 7, and also served on the NASA review board which investigated the Apollo 1 fire.

Before that the record was 48047305725 × 2 < sup > 172403 </ sup >− 1 with 51910 digits, found by David Underbakke in January 2007 using TwinGen and LLR.

" Before his death at age 83 in 1931, the prolific inventor amassed a record 1, 093 patents for creations including the phonograph, a stock ticker, the motion-picture camera, the incandescent lightbulb, a mechanical vote counter, the alkaline storage battery including one for an electric car, and the first commercial electric light.

Two of his hits were " The Song of the Sewer ", sung in character as Norton, and "' Twas the Night Before Christmas ", a spoken-word record in which Carney, accompanied only by a jazz drummer, recited the famous Yuletide poem in syncopation.

Before the end of 1983, Phil Lynott formed a new band called Grand Slam, but they were never able to secure a contract with a record company and split by the beginning of 1985.

Before the deal could be finalized, the band had to do a live audition for the record company executives.

Before the record label folded, Brotherhood of Man released one more single in the Summer of 1975.

Before losing his first amateur contest, Barrera had an undefeated record of 56-0.

Before this eventuated World Class were almost the sole performers in the club, managed by Alonzo who smooth-talked his way into obtaining a record deal from CBS Records for the group and was using money generated from sales to build an inexpensive four-track recording studio at the back of the club to cut records for his acts.

Before the advance of A / B editing systems, most editors only had precise control over two decks — their record deck and one source deck, which was typically the ' A ' deck.

Before offering it to Glenn Miller, Garland sold the tune to Artie Shaw, who could not record it because the original arrangement was too long.

Before this, some organisms have been interpreted ( tentatively ) as stem-group polyplacophora ; the record of polyplacophora stretches back to the Ordovician.

Before digital recording, the total number of available tracks onto which one could record was measured in multiples of 24, based on the number of 24-track tape machines being used.

Before the release of the Pixies ' debut mini-album Come On Pilgrim in October 1987, Ivo Watts-Russell, head of 4AD, suggested they return to the studio to record a full length album.

With their third consecutive single (" Let Love In ") from the album, the Goo Goo Dolls hit a record 12 Top 10 hits in Adult Top 40 history, beating Matchbox Twenty and Sheryl Crow until Matchbox Twenty's release of Exile on Mainstream and the Goo Goo Dolls ' release of " Before It's Too Late " from the Transformers Soundtrack, which left both groups with 13 Top 10 hits in the Adult Top 40.

Before Pittsfield's attempt, no other town had tried to set the record.

Before coming to WKRP, he had an unblemished record of turning around failing radio stations, but meets his match in his wacky staff members, of whom he becomes distressingly fond.