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, Guatemalan banana plantations accounted for more than one quarter of all of United Fruit Company's production in Latin America.

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.

I grinned at him, handed him a couple of dollars and said, `` By the time you get the parking charge figured up, there should be a cigar in it for you ''.

By 1908 lots of " bell " machines were installed in most cigar stores, saloons, bowling alleys, brothels and barber shops.

By 1878, industries included a lumber mill, a cigar factory, and a shingle manufacturer, and the town had grown to a population of 250.

By 1913, it consisted of 22 general stores, seven cigar stores, seventeen hostels, two hotels, and a mail-order division.

By January, 1943, students had begun to organize regular sit-ins and pickets at cigar stores and cafeterias around Washington, D. C. which refused to serve them because of their race.

By 1900, the area was home to 250 slaughterhouses and packing plants, and by the 1920s, what had been a neighborhood based on mixture of marketplaces became more tightly focused on meatpacking and related activities – although other industries continued to be located there, including cigar making, transportation-related businesses such as automobile repair, express services and garages, import-export firms, marine supplies, cosmetics, printing and many other.

By the time he made it to New York in 1955, he had progressed from a " diddly bow " made from a cigar box and an elastic band to a Fender Telecaster and Standel amplifier.

By late April 2012, the remaining copies of the 2010 edition had sold out at Britannica's online store.

By 2000, the consolidation of grocery store chains, the spread of retailers like Wal-Mart, and growth of private-label brands caused competition for shelf space, and put price pressure on the company's products.

By 1794 Watt had been chosen by Thomas Beddoes to manufacture apparatus to produce, clean and store gases for use in the new Pneumatic Institution at Hotwells in Bristol.

By creating their own store, the band could keep money that would otherwise go to record companies.

By age 22, he had purchased the store from its owner.

By 1920, the town had more than twenty-five homes, a two-room school, a town hall, and a general store.

By 1928, a manager of one of these locations brought back a totem pole from and placed it in front of his store.

By 1952, 7-Eleven opened its 100th store.

By the early 1980s new and remodeled combo stores had the ' wall ' removed and the store became one, and to this day, Osco retains control over drug, general merchandise, pharmacy and liquor departments in the Jewel Osco combo stores.

By 1805, he was thought to be running a warehouse in New Orleans and possibly a store on Royal Street.

By removing this greenhouse gas from the air, forests function as terrestrial carbon sinks, meaning they store large amounts of carbon.

By 1973, Harvey Milk, who would become the most famous resident of the neighborhood, opened a camera store, Castro Camera, and began political involvement as a gay activist, further contributing to the notion of the Castro as a gay destination.

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By 2007, 4. 9 patented items were still regularly appearing on store shelves.

By 1880, a general store was established at that location, and its owner was community namesake Silas Rayl.

By 1920, the businesses in Loxley consisted of an egg store, grocery store, two general merchandise stores, train depot, drug store, telegraph office, land office, repair garage, post office, bank, hotel, butcher shop, orange packing shed, cement block plant, a blacksmith, a feed and lumber store.

By the time he was released, his parents had separated, and he went back to Trenton, living with his mother in a two-room apartment over a store.

By 1860 the town had male and female academies, a hotel, cotton gin, oil mill, blacksmith shop, tavern, cabinet shop, drug store, and several general merchandise stores.

By the early 1880s most of the land around its small Post Office and general store had been subdivided.

By 1884, the town of Barham had a post office, blacksmith, feed store and a weekly newspaper.

By 1852, Yuba City had one hotel, a grocery store, a post office, approximately 20 dwelling homes with a population of about 150.

By 1913, the community had a cooperative general store, a canning factory, a telephone system, an electric plant supplying electricity to both public and private buildings, a weekly paper, and regular boat freight and passenger service to Tampa.