By 1969 West German cinema attendance at 172. 2 million visits per year was less than a quarter of its 1956 post-war peak.

: " By 1956 – 57 they had completed a military road through the Aksai Chin area to provide better communication between Xinjiang and western Tibet.

By 1956, the city had grown to, and doubled in size over the next decade to its current size of roughly.

By the mid twentieth century the Crossbow Corps had become largely defunct, save for parading on state holidays ; but in 1956 the practice of training its members in crossbow shooting was revived, and a ' Crossbow Federation ' was formed to encourage competition in this art, so that the unit ( although still entirely ceremonial in nature ) now again has a very active existence.

By the early 1960s films based on commando missions like The Gift Horse ( 1952 ) based on the St. Nazaire Raid, and Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1956 ) had begun to inspire fictional adventure films such as The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), The Train ( 1964 ), The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ), Where Eagles Dare ( 1968 ) and Hannibal Brooks ( 1969 ), which used the war as the backdrop for spectacular action films.

By 1956, she dissolved The World Calendar Association, Incorporated.

By 1956, however, the studio was losing money.

By the time she was 16, she earned a berth on the U. S. Olympic track and field team and came home from the 1956 Melbourne Games with an Olympic bronze medal in the 4 x 100 m relay to show her high school classmates.

By the spring of 1956 they had a near-final design, which was awarded a preproduction contract for 1, 000 M18A1 claymores designated T-48E1 during testing.

By 1957 it employed some 300 people and in 1956 the factory produced about 2675 m < sup > 2 </ sup > of linoleum each week.

By the time the again-renamed Milton Berle Show finished its only full season, Berle was already becoming history — though his final season was host to two of Elvis Presley's earliest television appearances, April 3 and June 5, 1956 .< ref >

By 1956, the D & RGW's standard-gauge steam locomotives had been retired and scrapped.

By 1956, most limited access highways in the eastern United States were toll roads.

By the end of the fifties Unwin had ventured into the film industry, winning a part in the 1956 Cardew Robinson film Fun at St Fanny's.

By far his biggest hit was the musical My Fair Lady ( 1956 ), adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.

By 1956, five million copies of the Oz books had been published in the English language, while hundreds of thousands had been published in eight foreign languages.

By the end of the program in 1956, roughly 2. 2 million veterans had used the GI Bill education benefits in order to attend colleges or universities.

By 1956, the DuMont network had shut down.

By sharing seventh place with 11 / 20 at Gothenburg, Spassky qualified for the 1956 Candidates ' Tournament, held in Amsterdam, automatically gaining the grandmaster title, and was then the youngest to hold the title.

By 1956 however, this policy had proved ineffectual, while Luns and the Dutch government were still determined not to transfer West New Guinea to the Republic of Indonesia.

By 1956, Mao was becoming bored with the day-to-day running of the state and also worried about growing red tape and bureaucracy.

By 1956 France had committed more than 400, 000 troops to Algeria.

Segregation had been struck down as unconstitutional in 1956, yet in 1968, 70 % of black children still attended segregated schools .< ref > Jonathan Karl reviewing James Rosen's < u > The Strong Man </ u >: http :// online. wsj. com / article / SB121158799673718969. html </ ref > By 1972, this percentage had decreased to 8 %.

Jacques Derrida, in " The Purveyor of Truth ," his response to Jacques Lacan's seminar on " The Purloined Letter " ( 1956 ), applies the metaphor to the structural analysis of texts: " By framing in this violent way, by cutting the narrated figure itself from a fourth side in order to see only triangles, one evades perhaps a certain complication.

By 1956, Yeading's Tilbury Square was still without gas and electricity, and oil stoves and open fires were still used ; the public house The Willow Tree, reputedly some 400 years old ( now demolished ), was lit by three cylinders of calor gas.

By 1926 the market for commercial radio had expanded, and RCA purchased the WEAF and WCAP radio stations and networks from AT & T, merged them with its WJZ ( the predecessor of WABC ) New York to WRC ( presently WTEM ) Washington chain, and formed the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ).

By May, Kline had sold the idea to 48 NBC stations and the Canadian CTV network.

By the time the smoke had cleared in 1943, NBC found itself shorn of its Blue network, which became ABC.

By 1993, when Burr signed with NBC for another season of Mason films, he was using a wheelchair full-time because of his failing health.

By 1992, however, the Evening News had fallen to third place, where it remained until Bob Schieffer, who acted as the interim anchor between Rather and Katie Couric, saw the Evening News rise to # 2 ahead of ABC World News Tonight in the wake of the death of Peter Jennings but remaining behind NBC Nightly News.

Just over a year following the show's cancellation, NBC launched another youth-oriented series, Saved By The Bell, for Saturday mornings.

By 1928, Cadman had a weekly Sunday afternoon radio broadcast on the NBC radio network, his powerful oratory reaching a nationwide audience of five million persons.

By exploiting the speed of jet transportation and flexibility of videotape, Scherick was able to undercut NBC and CBS's advantages in broadcasting live sporting events.

By the mid 1940s, RCA and NBC were refining the filming process and including sound ; the images were less jerky but still somewhat fuzzy.

By 1951, NBC and CBS were each shipping out some 1, 000 16mm kinescope prints each week to their affiliates across the United States, and by 1955 that number had increased to 2, 500 per week for CBS.

In 1989, she shot a pilot for NBC entitled Morton's By the Bay, which aired as a one-time special in May of that year.

By the end of 1938, Mutual had 74 exclusive affiliates ; though the two leading radio network companies discouraged dual affiliations, Mutual shared another 25 affiliates with NBC and 5 with CBS.

By the 1974 – 1975 season, Sanford and Sons high lead-in helped the entire NBC Friday night lineup to place in the coveted bracket of Top 20 shows ( Chico and the Man, following Sanford, placed in the Top 10, while the police dramas The Rockford Files and Police Woman aired later in the evening and ranked in the lower reaches of the Top 20 ).

By 1927 two national networks had been formed, the NBC Red Network and the Blue Network ( ABC ).

By season four, Highway took a nose dive in the ratings, and in June 1988, NBC announced that the series would return for an abbreviated fifth season, which would be its last.

By 1955, DuMont realized it could not compete against CBS, NBC and a revived ABC, and decided to shut down network operations.

By the 1992 conventions, network coverage increased from three networks ( NBC, ABC and CBS ) to five networks ( NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox and PBS ).

By 1958, WICS was an exclusive NBC affiliate.

It was following this run in 1996 that The Sporting News named Ebersol the “ Most Powerful Person in Sports .” By January 1998, NBC had become the home of four Super Bowls in six years.

By the time NBC canceled the long running serial in 1982, it had reached a 1. 6 in the Nielsens ; this was the lowest level any soap opera had reached in the history of the rating system, breaking the record that ABC's short-lived 1970 soap, The Best of Everything, had set with a 1. 8.

By this point, NBC had canceled the show, and promised Levitan to run the remaining episodes twice a week until the series finale.

By this time, NBC had once again become the highest-rated broadcast network.

By that time he was running only a part-time schedule, and was splitting time working as a television analyst on NBC, ABC, CBS and ESPN.