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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.
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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, 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.
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During World War 2, about 7.5 million persons were enrolled in courses organized under two special programs administered by state and local school authorities: ( 1 ) Vocational Education for National Defense, and ( 2 ) War Production Training.
* During the first week of August in Wales, the National Eisteddfod of Wales is held, in which many aspects of Welsh art and culture are celebrated.
During the 1920s, the ACLU expanded its scope to also include protecting the free speech rights of artists and striking workers, and working with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) to combat racism.
During the American Civil War, it was the site of a prisoner-of-war camp which is now Andersonville National Historic Site.
During the rough and tumble years of the American-National struggle, player contracts were violated at the independents as well: Players that the team had developed would sign deals with the National or American leagues without any form of compensation to the indy club.
During the national census in 2003 the following censuses were conducted at the same time: National Population and Housing Census and National Agricultural Census.
During 1975 – 1976, Mobutu directed the FAZ to intervene in the Angolan Civil War assisting the National Liberation Front of Angola ( FNLA )' s fight against the Marxist Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ).
During the 1993 policy debate, the National Defense Research Institute prepared a study for the Office of the Secretary of Defense published as Sexual Orientation and U. S. Military Personnel Policy: Options and Assessment.
During 1960, all of its civilian space programs were transferred to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) and the military space programs to the individual Services.
During the 1980s, the attention of the Agency was centered on information processing and aircraft-related programs, including the National Aerospace Plane ( NASP ) or Hypersonic Research Program.
On February 20, 1895, Douglass attended a meeting of the National Council of Women in Washington, D. C. During that meeting, he was brought to the platform and given a standing ovation by the audience.
During this period, the Haitian National Intelligence Service ( SIN ), which had been set up and financed in the 80s by the Central Intelligence Agency as part of the war on drugs, participated in drug trafficking and political violence.
During the Cultural Revolution, following the downfall of Liu Shaoqi, who was Chairman of the People's Republic of China, no successor was named, so the duties of the head of state were transferred collectively to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.
During the War of the First Coalition ( 1792 – 1797 ), the Directoire had replaced the National Convention.
During the first half of the 20th century, a nationwide struggle for independence was launched by the Indian National Congress and later joined by the Muslim League.
During the war, the NLM's communist-dominated partisans, in the form of the National Liberation Army, did not heed warnings from the Italian occupiers that there would be reprisals for guerrilla attacks.
* 1920 – During the U. S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U. S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U. S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to first coin the political phrase " smoke-filled room ".
During his second term ( 1991-92 ), Ashcroft was the chairman of the National Governors Association.
During the Kumul Rebellion, the Kuomintang 36th Division ( National Revolutionary Army ) crushed a separatist Uyghur First East Turkestan Republic, delivering it a fatal blow at the Battle of Kashgar ( 1934 ).
During the French Revolution, the National Assembly decreed that the Louvre should be used as a museum, to display the nation's masterpieces.
During the Libyan civil war, after meeting with high-level representatives of the Chadian government, United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that N ' Djamena opposes Gaddafi and has reached out to the rival National Transitional Council in rebel-held Benghazi.
During the period of Bulgarian National Revival many Bulgarians from Vardar Macedonia supported the struggle for creation of Bulgarian cultural educational and religious institutions, including Bulgarian Exarchate.
During the first presidency of the National Action Party, Vicente Fox appointed Jorge Castañeda to be his Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
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