The most convincing recent measurement of an anaconda was made in eastern Colombia by Roberto Lamon, a petroleum geologist of the Richmond Oil Company, and reported in 1944 by Emmett R. Dunn.

It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke ( a registered trademark of The Coca-Cola Company in the United States since March 27, 1944 ).

* William B. Mayo, ( 1860 – 1944 ), chief power engineer of Ford Motor Company

* 1944 – Mick Ralphs, English guitarist ( Mott the Hoople and Bad Company )

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1944.

* The most prestigious London revival was directed by John Burrell for The Old Vic Company at the New Theatre, which opened on 5 September 1944, starring Ralph Richardson ( Bluntschli ), Margaret Leighton ( Raina Petkoff ), Joyce Redman ( Louka ), and Laurence Olivier ( Major Sergius Saranoff ).

In September, 1944, Noble acquired the rights to the names " American Broadcasting Company " ( from the licensee of WOL ), " American Broadcasting Corporation " ( from the licensee of WLAP ), and " American Network " ( from a defunct group of FM broadcasters ), clearing the way to rename American Broadcasting System to American Broadcasting Company, with the Blue becoming " ABC ".

From 1916 to 1944, the Oklahoma Railway Company interurban line ran between Guthrie and Oklahoma City.

The first permit to drill an oil well in Alabama, the A. R. Jackson Well No. 1, was granted to the Hunt Oil Company on January 2, 1944, near Gilbertown.

In addition, Moretti-Harrah expanded operations to include calcium products, entering into a partnership with Thompson-Weinman and Company of Cartersville, Georgia, in 1944.

In 1944, under contract to the U. S. Navy, David Bohannon's Greenwood Company began construction of San Lorenzo Village, a tract of two-and three-bedroom homes for workers in the East Bay's war industries.

The town was sold in 1944 to the Fruit Growers Supply Company, today known as part of Sunkist.

First Lieutenant Bernard J. Ray deliberately gave his life to spare his men of Company F, 8th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division on November 17, 1944 in the Hurtgen Forest.

Oregon's longest existing covered bridge, the Office Bridge, was built across the North Fork Middle Fork Willamette River in 1944 to connect the Westfir Lumber Company mill to the main office.

By 1944 Trentman Company and the Johnson Campbell Company began building homes.

The Dale Coal Company became one of the more successful from about 1924-1941, followed by the Continental Coal Company from 1942 – 1944, the Anderson Coal Company from 1943 – 1948 ; and Palmer Coking Coal Company from 1937-1975.

* 1944 Buckley railroad logging ended with closure of Buckley Logging Company mill.

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After being banned from playing baseball Cicotte returned to Livonia, Michigan where he managed a service station, served as a Game Warden in the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, then went to work for Ford Motor Company where he retired in 1944.

* 1944 – Allied forces started bombing of Belgrade, killing about 1, 100 people.

After the industrial scale production of cadmium started in the 1930s and 1940s, the major application of cadmium was the coating of iron and steel to prevent corrosion ; in 1944, 62 % and in 1956, 59 % of the cadmium in the United States was for coating.

Examples include Little Orphan Annie ( drawn and plotted by Harold Gray from 1924 to 1944 and thereafter by a succession of artists including Leonard Starr and Andrew Pepoy ), and Terry and The Pirates, started by Milton Caniff in 1934 and picked up by George Wunder.

These had started in 1944 with the famed Whirlwind which was originally developed to make a flight simulator for the US Navy, although this was never completed.

The repatriation of the civilians started in 1944 and proceeded until 1951, causing considerable suffering and frustration.

The small cases of ethnic conflict in rural Guatemala between 1944 and 1952 started an intense response among the Ladino elite for increased vigilance in rural areas, the denial of rights recently won through the revolution to Indians, and the frequent use of the military and violence to suppress the most minor sign of simmering unrest.

Despite most Guatemalans ' attachment to the original ideals of the 1944 uprising, some private sector leaders and the military began to believe that Arbenz represented a Communist threat and supported his overthrow, hoping that a successor government would continue the more moderate reforms started by Arevalo.

The National Liberation War of the Albanian people started with the Italian invasion in Albanian on 7 April 1939 and ended on 28 November 1944.

Unfortunately not a whole lot of very old buildings are left in town: first the Americans carpet-bombed it in February 1944, later the Germans shelled it for about five months after the liberation in September 1944, and finally there were a lot of very rigorous city planners in the 1950s, 60's and 70's who finished what the Americans and Germans started.

In early 1944, construction work started for the test stands and launching pads in the Austrian Alps ( code name Salamander ), with target areas planned for the Tatra Mountains, the Arlberg range, and the area of the Ortler mountain.

The total number of Rifle Corps started at 62 on 22 June 1941, dropped to six by 1 January 1942, but then increased to 34 by February 1943, and 161 by New Year's Day 1944.

After World War II started, Estonia was occupied by the Soviet Union ( USSR ) in 1940, and later occupied by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1944.

This trend was started by Darryl F. Zanuck's production The Longest Day in 1962, based on the first day of the 1944 D-Day landings.

Their training started in November 1943 at Camp Pendleton, California, moved to Santa Catalina Island, California in January 1944, and finally moved to the warmer waters of The Bahamas in March 1944.

As the Germans started to retreat on 18 September 1944, Jüri Uluots, the last Prime Minister of the Estonian Republic prior to Soviet occupation, assumed the responsibilities of president ( as dictated in the Constitution ) and appointed a new government while seeking recognition from the Allies.

Classes started at the Navy Pier Secondary School on 5 June 1944 ; Captain Edwin A. Wolleson was the Commanding Officer, and Commander Charles C. Caveny served as the Educational Officer.

In late 1944, soldiers started arriving at Trinity Site to prepare for the test.

During World War II, when Denmark was occupied by the Germans, Blixen started her only full-length novel, the introspective tale The Angelic Avengers, under another pseudonym, Pierre Andrezel ; it was published in 1944.

Seventeen Magazine started publication in the US in September 1944 and was the first magazine devoted to the needs and likes of adolescents.

The third and final phase started on June 6, 1944 with the invasion of Normandy on the D-Day of Operation Overlord, when an Allied force consisting of American British and Canadian Army Groups ( with units from many other nations ), successfully gained a beach head in Normandy in northern France.

The Boulder Dam Area Council (# 328 ) was started in 1944 with fewer than 500 youth.

Drilling started January 10, 1944 and struck in chalk of the Selma Group approximately one month later at 2, 580 feet.

What began in 1944 started by the Women ’ s Club of Temple City as a small parade of youngsters who tossed camellia blossoms to parade watchers, has now become a signature event in Temple City attracting an estimated 5000 children and more than 20, 000 visitors to Temple City each year.