By the mid-1940s, it had become an extremely popular name for newborn American girls, remaining a top 10 name for most of the decade, peaking at # 8 in both 1943 and 1945.

By the mid-1940s, Prima was experiencing great success.

By the mid-1940s the community had 150 to 200 residents, but began to decline after the end of World War II.

By the mid-1940s, the cigar store had been replaced with a Walgreens drug store.

By the mid-1940s, the building was fully rented.

By the mid-1940s the band was drifting towards what would be known as rhythm and blues.

By the mid-1940s the broadcasting arena was a big Three television networks battle.

By the mid-1940s, it was an unfinished dream deferred.

By the mid-1940s, the series had developed a quicker, more energetic ( and violent ) tone, due to the inspiration from the work of their colleague in the MGM cartoon studio, Tex Avery, who joined the studio in 1942.

( By the mid-1940s, deer were so numerous in the area that crop farmers had to patrol their fields by night.

By the mid-1940s, association chapters were established from coast-to-coast.

By the mid-1940s, the newspaper's Sunday comics included Bringing Up Father, Blondie, a full-page Prince Valiant, Flash Gordon, The Little King, Buz Sawyer, Feg Murray's Seein ' Stars, Tim Tyler's Luck, Gene Ahern's Room and Board and The Squirrel Cage, The Phantom, Jungle Jim, Tillie the Toiler, Little Annie Rooney, Little Iodine, Bob Green's The Lone Ranger, Believe It or Not !, Uncle Remus, Dinglehoofer and His Dog, Donald Duck, Tippie, Right Around Home, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith and The Katzenjammer Kids.

By the mid-1940s, though, he left the entertainment industry and severed ties with his former Our Gang alumni.

By the mid-1940s, Shure was also manufacturing and supplying phonograph cartridges to major phonograph manufacturers including Philco, RCA, Emerson, Magnavox, Admiral, and Motorola, and was the largest producer of phonograph cartridges in the U. S. at that time.

By the mid-1940s, the small city of Las Vegas was facing a major water crisis.

By the mid-1940s, Iran's oil assets were owned by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, whose predecessor company bought the concession from William Knox D ' Arcy.

By the time David Buxton saw the ancient church in the mid-1940s, he found it " on the point of collapse "; a few years later, the English architect D. H. Matthews assisted in the restoration of the building, which included the rebuilding of one of its wood and stone walls ( a characteristic style of Aksumite architecture ).

By the mid-1940s he was working as a cinematographer and in 1952 shot the first Italian film in colour, Totò a colori.

By the mid-1940s and throughout the 1950s, Moreno appeared in a number of well received roles, most notably, his 1954 role in the classic horror film Creature from the Black Lagoon and his 1955 role as Emilio Figueroa in film director John Ford's influential western epic The Searchers opposite John Wayne and Natalie Wood.

By 1897 Ubico received his commission into the Guatemalan army as second lieutenant, which was largely a reflection of his political ties.

By the 1990s, in the final stage of the Guatemalan Civil War, the military had developed a parallel, semi-visible, low-profile, but high-impact, control of the national life of Guatemala.

By the end of the 1980s, the economy had made a healthy recovery, which weakened in the 1990s due to a decrease in banana prices.

By 1902, railroads had been constructed along the country's Caribbean coast to accommodate the growing banana industry.

By 1912, three companies dominated the banana trade in Honduras: Samuel Zemurray's Cuyamel Fruit Company, Vaccaro Brothers and Company and the United Fruit Company ; all of which tended to be vertically integrated, owning their own lands and railroad companies and ship lines such as United's " Great White Fleet ".

By contrast, the banana companies paid relatively high wages as early as the 1970s.

By the time the EEC was being phased into the European Union in 1993, that bloc's agricultural committees had announced their intention to eliminate preferred access of Windward Islands crops to the United Kingdom, which will cause considerable reduction in the prices which banana crops previously commanded.

By 1950, a handful of U. S. corporations controlled Guatemala's primary electrical utilities, the nation's only railroad, and the banana industry, which was Guatemala's chief agricultural export industry.

By convention, multiple full-sized banana connectors are spaced on ¾ inch centers.

* By 1902 the United Fruit Company started having refrigerated " banana " boats built in the UK to add to their fleet which hauled passengers and bananas between ports in the United States and Central America.

By 1915 the business had grown so large that it bought most of the ice factories in New Orleans, in order to refrigerate its banana ships, leading to its president Joseph Vaccaro becoming known as the " Ice King ".

By working closely with the government and terrorizing their workers, the term banana republic has come into popular use.

By the late 1990s, the church had grown into a thriving community, set in pineapple and banana plantations.

By the 1530s, cimarrón bands had become so numerous that in rural areas the Spaniards could only safely travel outside their plantations in large armed groups.

By 1750, slavery was a legal institution in all of the 13 American colonies, and the profits of the slave trade and of West Indian plantations amounted to 5 % of the British economy at the time of the Industrial Revolution.

By 1630, Africans had replaced the Tupani as the largest contingent of labor on Brazilian sugar plantations, heralding equally the final collapse of the European medieval household tradition of slavery, the rise of Brazil as the largest single destination for enslaved Africans and sugar as the reason that roughly 84 % of these Africans were shipped to the New World.

" By the time of the Civil War, one-third of the county population was African American, most of whom were enslaved laborers on major plantations, particularly for labor-intensive tobacco cultivation.

By this time, industry in Houma consisted largely of plantations for sugar cane, the harvesting of seafood, fur trading and logging industries.

By 1851, Terrebonne had 110 plantations with 80 sugar houses.

By the early 1900s, many of the old cotton plantations became hunting preserves, attracting tourists.

By 1861, at the start of the American Civil War, the region consisted entirely of large cotton plantations worked by thousands of slave laborers.

By the late 18th century, French and European colonial settlers had established numerous sugar cane plantations.

By imperial order in the year 816, tea plantations began to be cultivated in the Kinki region of Japan.

By 1887, plantations on the floodplains had been abandoned due to the land owners financial difficulties.

By the dawn of the 18th century, expansion of Caribbean plantations had cut sugar prices in half.

By 1839, many of the plantations were thrown out of cultivation.

By 1860 most slaves were held in the Deep South, where they were engaged in a work-gang system on large plantations ; two-thirds worked in cotton.

By 1911 the company had its own oil palm plantations in Belgian Congo and the Solomon Islands.

By the time their two daughters, Sarah and Frances, were born, Butler had inherited three of his grandfather's Sea Island plantations and the several hundred slaves who worked them.

By the early 1960s, up to 100, 000 Ovimbundu, estimated at one-quarter of the group's able-bodied adult males, were migrating on one-year and two-year labor contracts to the coffee plantations of Uíge and Cuanza Norte provinces ; another 15, 000 to 20, 000 sought work in Luanda and Lobito ; and roughly the same number worked in the industrial plants of Huambo or for European farmers in the Benguela Plateau.

By 1930, over 40 percent of all the arable land in Puerto Rico had been converted into sugar plantations, which were entirely owned by Charles Allen and U. S. banking interests.

By 1898, a rubber plantation had been established in Malaya, and today, most rubber tree plantations are in South and Southeast Asia, with some also in tropical West Africa.

By 1883, Huehuetenango had 248 coffee plantations and produced 7334 quintals ( Imperial hundredweight ) of coffee.

By the late 1830s, a market for Assam tea was being assessed in London ; and the positive feedback led the East India Company to inaugurate a long drawn process of dispossession of agricultural land and forest commons through the infamous ' Wasteland Acts ' allowing significant portions of the province by private capital to be transformed into tea plantations.

By the 1790s, settlers began to arrive from the Carolinas and proceeded to set up cotton plantations.

By 1904, the population was just under 100, 000, occupying an area of approximately of mountains and swampy valleys, covered by corn fields, vineyards, and some tea plantations.

By 2008 there were no signs remaining of the mining, as plantations, particularly rubber, have covered the former dredged areas.