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 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, 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 its nature it has always been of great psychological advantage and small efforts have required considerably greater counter-efforts.

By the time Felix turned up it was early afternoon, which, one would think, would be late enough so that by then, except for small children and a few hardy souls who had not yet sobered up, it could have been expected that people would no longer be having any sort of active interest in the previous night's noisemakers and paper hats.

By 1840 there were still only ten colonial bishops for the Church of England ; but even this small beginning greatly facilitated the growth of Anglicanism around the world.

: " By the step leading up into the sleeping-car stood a young Belgian lieutenant, resplendent in uniform, conversing with a small man ( Hercule Poirot ) muffled up to the ears of whom nothing was visible but a pink-tipped nose and the two points of an upward-curled moustache.

By 1865, following the American Civil War, stocks in small industrial companies, such as iron and steel, textiles and chemicals were first sold by curbstone brokers.

By bringing engine production back to within the company, the promise was that Aston Martin would be able to produce small runs of higher performance variants engines.

By 1000 BC Greek and Phoenician traders had begun to visit the eastern coast of Spain, establishing small trading ports and introducing the native Iberian tribes to the alphabet, iron and the pottery wheel.

By the end of the 18th century there were no factories or mills and only a few small cottage industries along the border with Zurich.

By the early 1960s, US research on the Nike Zeus missile system had developed to the point where small improvements would allow it to be used as the basis of a " real " ABM system.

By channeling a large electric current through the compressed carbon granules in the microphone, a small sound signal could produce a much larger electric signal.

By connecting a small dish & receiver, a constant downstream of thousands of FidoNet and Usenet newsgroups could be received.

By October, another vessel had been captured and added to the small fleet.

By local success at the Schwerpunkt, a small force achieved a breakthrough and gained advantages by fighting in the enemy's rear.

By this time the small lake ( Lady Pool on old maps ) at the end of Ladypool Road had been filled-in to create a park.

By 1943, the Partisan resistance movement had gained the upper hand, against the odds, and in 1945, with help from the Soviet Red Army ( passing only through small parts such as Vojvodina ), expelled the Axis forces and local supporters.

By 2012, the tourism industry is small but growing rapidly.

By contrast, if we look at a point on the left and placed a small paddle wheel there, the larger " current " on its left side would cause the paddlewheel to rotate counterclockwise, which corresponds to a curl in the positive z direction.

By 1990, an estimated 50 % of islanders had some degree of proficiency in Corsican, and a small minority, perhaps 10 %, used Corsican as a first language.

By analogy, the phenomenon of small events causing similar events leading to eventual catastrophe is called the domino effect.

By the 1880s, these had evolved into small ships of 50-100 tons, fast enough to evade enemy picket boats.

By the time of its independence from Ethiopia in 1993, Eritrea ’ s economy had been destroyed by war and was dependent on income from ports and its small agricultural base.

By contrast, integrated circuits packed a large number — often millions — of tiny electrical components, mainly transistors, into a small chip around the size of a coin.

By including interaction, scripting, and compilation, Forth was popular on computers with limited resources, such as the BBC Micro and Apple II series, and remains so in applications such as firmware and small microcontrollers.

By inspection, each of the small natural numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, ... is the product of primes.

By 2500 BC, small settlements were developing in Guatemala ’ s Pacific lowlands in such places as Tilapa, La Blanca, Ocós, El Mesak, and Ujuxte, where the oldest pieces of ceramic pottery from Guatemala has been found.