During the 1930s and 1940s Joseph Stalin's NKVD carried out numerous assassinations outside of the Soviet Union, such as the killings of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists leader Yevhen Konovalets, Ignace Poretsky, Fourth International secretary Rudolf Klement, Leon Trotsky, and the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ) leadership in Catalonia.

During the 1940s Haley was considered one of the top cowboy yodelers in America as " Silver Yodeling Bill Haley ".

During the 1940s and 50s the attendance was often above 40, 000, and Charlton had one of the largest support bases in the country.

During the 1940s Alston also took occasional art classes studying under Alexander Kostellow.

During the 1930s and early 1940s, Alston created illustrations for magazines such as Fortune, Mademoiselle, The New Yorker, Melody Maker and others.

During the 1940s and 1950s, Casablanca was a major centre of anti-French rioting.

During the 1940s The Living Theatre, Theatre of the Absurd, and the Downtown Theater movement all took root there, and it developed a reputation as a place where aspiring playwrights and emerging voices could showcase their work.

During the late 1930s and through the 1940s — the heyday of big band jazz and swing music — the guitar was an important rhythm section instrument.

During the 1940s, Cousteau is credited with improving the aqua-lung design which gave birth to the open-circuit scuba technology used today.

During the 1940s, Kirby, generally teamed with Simon, created numerous characters for that company and for the company that would become DC Comics.

During the 1940s, English knitting rose in popularity while Continental knitting fell.

During the 1940s and 1950s, critics focused on the technique of the poem and how it relates to the meaning.

During the late 1940s and into the 1950s, a production unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer headed by Arthur Freed made the transition from old-fashioned musical films, whose formula had become repetitive, to something new.

During the late 1940s Jackson Pollock's radical approach to painting revolutionized the potential for all contemporary art that followed him.

During the latter half of the 1940s, Friedman began a collaboration with Anna Schwartz, an economic historian at the Bureau, that would ultimately result in the 1963 publication of a book co-authored by Friedman and Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States, 1867 – 1960.

During this period, the logo of the club was the Beer Barrel Man, which had been used by the American Association Milwaukee Brewers since at least the 1940s.

During the 20th century the tradition was reinvigorated by Captain America and his fellow Invaders in the 1940s, who fought for the Allies of World War II.

During the 1930s and 1940s, the state passed labor laws, implemented agrarian reform, and assumed a role in modernization, influenced in part by the leadership of Juan Domingo Perón in Argentina and Getúlio Dornelles Vargas in Brazil.

During the 1930s and 1940s, Heinlein was deeply interested in Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics and attended a number of seminars on the subject.

During the early 1940s, Rickenbacker amps were sometimes repaired by Leo Fender, whose repair shop evolved into the Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company.

During the 1930s and 1940s, Jews in Nazi-controlled states were made to wear yellow ribbons or stars of David, and were, along with Romas ( Gypsies ), discriminated against by the racial laws.

During the 1940s and 1950s, Frederick Terman, as dean of engineering and provost, encouraged faculty and graduates to start their own companies.

During the 1930s and 1940s, Coarsegold and Bass Lake were still populated with descendants of the miners and ranchers of the 19th century.

During the first half of the 1940s, Charteris cast Templar as a willing operative of the American government, fighting Nazi interests in the U. S. during World War II.

During most of the late 1930s and early 1940s Milligan performed as an amateur jazz vocalist and trumpeter before, during and after being called up for military service in the fight against Nazi Germany, but even then he wrote and performed comedy sketches as part of concerts to entertain troops.

During the 1980s Soviet war, Mazari Sharif was a strategic base for the Soviet Army, as they used its airport to launch air strikes on Afghan mujahideen.

During a subsequent German investigation, an officer identified as “ Sniper No. 2 ” stated: “ I am of the opinion that I am not a sharpshooter .” The five snipers were deployed around the airport — three on the roof of the control tower, one hidden behind a service truck and one behind a small signal tower at ground level — but none of them had any special training.

During the 1970s, real-estate developers gained a dominant role in local politics, and high-rises began to dominate the area now known as Surfers Paradise and later in 1981 the airport was established.

During this series, several Hurricanes fan traditions drew hockey-wide media attention for the first time: fans met the team at the airport on the return from every road trip, and echoed football-season habits honed for games across the parking lot by hosting massive tailgate parties before each home game, a relative novelty in the cold-weather-centric NHL.

During airport scenes in Into the Night and Coming to America, there are announcements on the PA system requesting a ' Mr. Frank Oznowicz ' to pick up the white courtesy phone.

During that period, Airwork provided maintenance facilities at Gatwick and other contemporary charter companies flying war-surplus aircraft started to use the airport ; however, persistent drainage issues affected the airport's usage.

During the 1960s, IT services accounted for between two-thirds and three-quarters of Gatwick's annual passengers, earning the airport its bucket and spade tag.

Between January and November 2010 the airport handled 9, 361, 846 passengers and by the end of 2010 the airport reached 10, 278, 493 passengers .. During the year 2011 the airport served 11, 904, 553 passengers, growing over 16 % when compared to the previous year.

During the early days, Sylacauga had an extremely active airport thanks mostly to individuals that devoted their work and efforts to maintain, improve and add to the utility of the airport.

During the 1980s, many countries stopped trading with South Africa because of the United Nation sanctions imposed against South Africa in the struggle against apartheid, and many airlines had to stop flying to the airport.

During World War II, the Newton airport was taken over by the US Navy as a secondary Naval Air Station, and the main runway was extended to over.

During the next few years a vote was taken to take three more sections of the city and the end result was only the airport was annexed by the City of Grand Rapids.

During World War II, the airport was used to hold German prisoners of war.

During the 1920s and 1930s, a small airport on the southern end of Grosse Ile was the location of historic early aviation activities.

During the winter ski season, and particularly the Sundance Film Festival, the airport is crowded with corporate jets as it is the closest airport to Park City.

During his investigation, Gently encounters exploding airport check-in counters, the gods of Norse mythology, insulting horoscopes, a sinister nursing home, a rhino phagic eagle, an I Ching calculator ( to which everything calculated above the value of 4 is apparently ' a suffusion of yellow '), an omnipotent being who gives his powers to a lawyer and an advertising executive in exchange for clean linen, and an attractive American woman who gets angry when she can't get pizza delivered in London.

During World War II, the airport was used by the United States Army Air Force Air Transport Command as a hub for cargo, transiting aircraft and personnel.

During 2006, the airport handled 5 million passengers and 220, 000 tonnes of cargo.

During some of these meetings, people focus only on photography and spotting although the Zürich meet included organized tours of the airport operations.

During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces Sixth Air Force stationed the 12th Bombardment Squadron ( 25th Bombardment Group ) at the airport for antisubmarine patrols flying B-18 Bolo aircraft from November 8, 1941 to November 10, 1942.

During the First World War, the Germans constructed an airport.