During the 1950s there were as many as 25,000 schools in the Congo.

During the early 1950s the board was divided on whether to defend communists persecuted under McCarthyism.

During the late 1950s it was sought by two rail historians, George Horn and Martin Schachne, but they did not gain access to the tunnel itself.

During the 1950s, the National Football League had grown to rival Major League Baseball as one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the United States.

During the 1950s, however, Graham began distancing himself from the older fundamentalism and, in preparation for his 1957 New York Crusade, he sought broad ecumenical sponsorship.

During his early journalism career, Marker became increasingly interested in filmmaking and experimented with photography in the early 1950s.

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

During the late 1950s and early 1960s Brubeck canceled several concerts because the club owners or hall managers continued to resist the idea of an integrated band on their stages.

During the 1950s, Kaye visited Australia, where he played " Buttons " in a production of Cinderella in Sydney.

During World War II and through the 1950s, high frequency (" short wave ") radio was widely used for military and diplomatic communication, and could be intercepted at great distances.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Peter van de Kamp of Swarthmore College made another prominent series of detection claims, this time for planets orbiting Barnard's Star.

During the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, several events occurred which raised the public awareness of harm to the environment caused by man.

During the 1950s and 1960s, the electric guitar became the most important instrument in pop music.

During Japanese cinema's ' Golden Age ' of the 1950s, successful films included Rashomon ( 1950 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and The Hidden Fortress ( 1958 ) by Akira Kurosawa, as well as Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ) and Ishirō Honda's Godzilla ( 1954 ).

During Indian cinema's ' Golden Age ' of the 1950s, it was producing 200 films annually, while Indian independent films gained greater recognition through international film festivals.

During the 1950s and 60s, Afghanistan was able to use the Russian and American need for allies during the Cold War as a way to receive economic assistance from both countries.

During his career as a director, he retained an early ambition to teach science, and after his career declined in the 1950s he made some educational TV films related to science subjects.

During World War II, the urgent need for cheap, available food preservatives led to it being used again, but it was finally banned in the 1950s.

During the 1950s, when the independence of Ghana was in sight, demands grew for a separate Ewe state, an idea that Kwame Nkrumah, leader of the Gold Coast independence movement, opposed.

During the early 1950s, Groucho described his perfect woman: “ Someone who looks like Marilyn Monroe and talks like George S. Kaufman .”

During the late 1950s, high-stakes games such as Twenty One and The $ 64, 000 Question began a rapid rise in popularity.

During the 1950s — as a result of these improvements and the strong international export prices — beef, cotton, and coffee became significant export products for the first time.

During the later 1950s, Great Britain emerged as a producer of horror films.

During the 1950s, Holden dominated the Australian car market.

During the 1950s and 1960s the skyline of London altered dramatically as tower blocks were erected, although these later proved unpopular.

During a 1935 radio broadcast Walter Winchell incorrectly reported that Mae West had been married to Guido's brother, Pietro.

During 1950s, Winchell hosted children's and adult programs with his figures for NBC Television, and later for syndication.

) During March, Winchell was " banned for life " from KABC ( AM ) in Los Angeles at the behest of ABC radio host Bill O ' Reilly, over a retelling of an occurrence she dubbed " Croissantgate " ( KABC provided Bill O ' Reilly with croissants that were not fresh enough for his taste, causing a commotion at the station ).

During this period, the town suffered an earthquake as well as the destruction of the Muslim quarter in 1834 by Egyptian troops, apparently as a reprisal for the murder of a favored loyalist of Ibrahim Pasha.

During the 7th millennium BC, the northern half of Chad was part of a broad expanse of land, stretching from the Indus River in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, in which ecological conditions favored early human settlement.

During the drafting and ratification of the constitution, he favored a strong national government, though later he grew to favor stronger state governments, before settling between the two extremes late in his life.

During the Nara period and the early Heian period, the court favored Chinese-style poetry ( kanshi ) and the waka art form largely fell out of official favor.

During the summers, when the weather favored travel more, each settlement would send an army of men to hunt in Disko Bay above the Arctic Circle for food and other valuable commodities such as seals ( used for rope ), ivory from Walrus tusks, and beached whales.

During the 2010 midterm elections, the county favored Republican Gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder, Congressional candidate Tim Walberg, State Senate candidate Bruce Caswell, and State Representative candidates Nancy Jenkins and Mike Shirkey.

During the Civil War, most residents are said to have favored the preservation of the Union.

During the 1936 Xian Incident, in which Chiang was taken prisoner by his own general, Zhang Xueliang, Wang favored sending a " punitive expedition " to attack Zhang.

During the same period the tribe split into four different competing groups living in different villages, a consequence of rivalry between three groups of conservatives, who favored retaining traditional ways, and one group under White Plume which favored accommodation with the United States.

During the Nixon re-election campaign of 1972, Jewish voters were apprehensive about George McGovern and only favored the Democrat by 65 %, while Nixon more than doubled Republican Jewish support to 35 %.

During the 2003 America's Cup Challenger Series between Oracle BMW Racing and Alinghi, for example, the Alinghi boat was heavier but more powerful and favored on higher points of sail downwind.

During the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Copperheads nominally favored the Union and strongly opposed the war, for which they blamed abolitionists, and they demanded immediate peace and resisted draft laws.

During his 20-year rule he favored his own ethnic group, the Hutus, and supported the Hutu majority in neighboring Burundi against the Tutsi government.

During the second half of the 1260s a new war broke out with Dubrovnik, which was secretly favored by the Serbian queen.

During the 1990s, the prevailing management philosophy of the time favored more casual attire for employees ; the aim was to encourage a sense of openness and egalitarianism.

During a low-energy annihilation, photon production is favored, since these particles have no mass.

During his incumbency, Wilson's colleagues regarded him as the " best horse trader in Washington " because of his ability to negotiate and trade votes with other congressmen to ensure passage of his favored bills.

During the Philadelphia Convention, he was a friend and ally of George Washington and others who favored a strong central government.

During most of the 20th century, formatting them on the baseline was favored.

During his first term as mayor, Brown quietly favored the demolition and abolition of the Transbay Terminal to accommodate the redevelopment of the site for market-rate housing.

During the same visit to London in May 1939, Goerdeler claimed that the German Army leadership was willing to overthrow the regime, that he himself favored launching a putsch immediately, but that " the leaders of the whole movement ... still considered it too early ".

During this time, President Gerald R. Ford had succeeded Nixon after his resignation ; eventually Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger made it clear with two presidential vetoes that they favored continued military assistance to Turkey as a valued NATO ally, but Congress overrode both vetoes and in December 1974 prohibited such aid, which instituted an arms embargo that lasted five years.

During the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, favored to win both the marathon and the 10, 000 meters, she suffered from violent food poisoning the night before the race.