The New Zealand Liberal Party aggressively promoted agrarianism in its heyday, 1891-1912.

In its heyday, the city may have had a population of about 100, 000.

He never worked for any of the major manufacturers but maintained a productive relationship with BSA in its heyday.

In its heyday, many celebrities belonged to the Golden Dawn, such as actress Florence Farr, Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne, Irish writer William Butler Yeats, Welsh author Arthur Machen, English author Evelyn Underhill, and English author Aleister Crowley.

However, some artists and fans, notably Hank Williams Sr., found the term offensive even in its heyday.

Kansas City is most famous for its steak and barbecue. The American Hereford Association bull and Kemper Arena and the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange Building in the former Kansas City Stockyard of the West Bottoms as seen from Quality Hill, Kansas City | Quality Hill During the heyday of the Kansas City Stockyards, the city was known for its Kansas City steaks or Kansas City strip steaks.

In its heyday it boasted a collection of 70, 000 volume of antique books.

In its heyday it boasted a collection of 70, 000 volumes of antique books.

Because of its financial power and diversity, Lebanon was known in its heyday as the " Switzerland of the East ".

The lute gained a fifth course by the fifteenth century, a sixth a century later, and up to thirteen courses in its heyday.

The heyday of parchment use was during the medieval period, but there has been a growing revival of its use among artists since the late 20th century.

It may have been the most numerous bird on earth in its heyday, and A. W. Schorger believed it accounted for between 25 and 40 percent of the total landbird population in the US.

During its heyday, the recorder was traditionally associated with pastoral scenes, miraculous events, funerals, marriages and amorous scenes.

Two other major political entities were formed and grew during the 13th and 14th century: the Mali Empire and the Jolof Empire which become the vassal of the first in its heyday.

In its heyday a large amount of literature about how to play whist was written.

Popular with writers and editors for its speed and degree of customization, XyWrite was in its heyday the house word processor in many editorial offices, including the New York Times from 1989 to 1993.

This marked the beginning of its heyday.

In its heyday, newspapers typically paid UPI about half what they paid AP in the same cities for the same services: At one point, for example, the Chicago Sun-Times paid AP $ 12, 500 a week, but UPI only $ 5, 000 ; the Wall Street Journal paid AP $ 36, 000 a week, but UPI only $ 19, 300.

In its colonial heyday Dakar was one of the major cities of the French Empire, comparable to Hanoi or Beirut.

Some have argued that cliometrics had its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s and that it is now neglected by economists and historians.

The heyday of its usage was from the early 1940s until the mid-1950s when modern neuroleptic ( antipsychotic ) medications were introduced.

ICI was confronted with the nationalisation of its operations in Burma on 1 August 1962 as a consequence of the military coup.

* Disposals of bulk chemicals businesses at that time included the sale of its Australian subsidiary, ICI Australia, for £ 1bn in 1997, and of its polyester chemicals business to DuPont for $ 3 billion also in 1997.

* In 2000 ICI sold its diisocyanate, advanced materials, and specialty chemicals businesses at Teesside and worldwide ( including plants at Rosenberg, Holland, in South Africa, Malaysia, and Taiwan ), and Tioxide, its titanium dioxide subsidiary, to Huntsman Corporation for £ 1. 7 billion.

The adhesives business of ICI was transferred to Henkel as a result of the deal, while Akzo agreed to sell its Crown Paints subsidiary to satisfy the concerns of the European Commissioner for Competition.

From 1971 to 1988 ICI Physics and Radioisotopes Section ( later known as Tracerco ) operated a small General Atomics TRIGA Mark I nuclear reactor at its Billingham factory for the production of radioisotopes used in the manufacture of flow and level instruments, among other products.

* Winnington and Wallerscote ( in Northwich, Cheshire ): It was here that ICI manufactured sodium carbonate ( soda ash ) and its various by-products such as bicarbonate of soda, and sodium sesquicarbonate.

The milestone mergers and divestments are the formation of AKZO in 1969, the merger with Nobel Industries in 1994 forming Akzo Nobel, and the divestment of its pharmaceutical business and the merger with ICI in 2007 / 2008 resulting in current day AkzoNobel.

* 1972 Britain joins the Common Market, ICI focusing its attention on the United States.

* 1993 demerges its bioscience businesses, splitting into two the publicly listed companies: ICI and Zeneca,

The chemical was originally synthesised in 1825 by Faraday, but its pesticidal action was discovered only in 1942, after which lindane production, by Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd ( ICI ), and use started up in the United Kingdom.

In July 1997, ICI Australia became an independent Australasian company after its parent company, ICI Plc, divested its 62. 4 per cent shareholding in the company.

As a result of the selldown ICI Australia was required to change its name and on 2 February 1998 became known as Orica.

While Mohali houses many state-local companies like PTL ( Punjab Tractor Limited ), ICI Paints, and the Godrej Group, its reputation as a home for large, multinational corporations is growing.

On its merger with three other British chemical companies to form Imperial Chemical Industries ( ICI ) in 1926, it had a market capitalization of over £ 18 million (£ as of ).

In 1944, BPB acquired its large rival, Gyproc Products Limited ; after that there were only a handful of small companies and when ICI withdrew from the market in 1968 BPB was the 100 % British producer of plaster and plasterboard.

ICI Nobel's Ardeer site and its World War II agency factories produced, for example, 35 % of the combined ROF and Agency Factories output of Cordite and 15 % of the combined output of TNT.

Subsequently Watsons acquired The Netherlands-based Kruidvat Group, through which the company added over 1, 900 stores to its business and for the first time entered the Dutch, German and Belgian marketplaces where Kruidvat traded as Kruidvat, Trekpleister, ICI PARIS XL and Rossmann.

In 1956, a major part of the company's Mumbai office moved to ICI House in Ballard Estate, Mumbai ; which would later be purchased by the company and renamed as L & T House, its present Corporate Office.

In 1954 C-I-L was divided into two separate companies in accordance with the ruling of a U. S. court which had ordered E. I. du Pont de Nemours ( today's DuPont ) to end its joint interests with Imperial Chemical Industries Limited ( ICI ).

Dawn would come soon and the night was at its coldest.

The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.

She glanced around the clearing, taking in the wagon and the load of supplies and trappings scattered over the ground, the two kids, the whiteface bull that was chewing its cud just within the far reaches of the firelight.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

Each of those tickets was of great value to its rightful recipient.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.

Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.

Still nursing anger I listlessly thumbed a car that was slowly approaching, its pre-war chrome nearly blinding me.

A big car was approaching, its chrome teeth grinning.

The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.

`` It was a king cobra, the largest you ever saw, and it deserved to live out its life in the jungle, didn't it??

There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.

His gun was half drawn when he asked the question, but the weapon never left its holster.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

Its ribs showed, it was a yellow nondescript color, it suffered from a variety of sores, hair had scabbed off its body in patches.

A few months ago it was a fairly typical landlord who in the dead of night lugged me up a mountainside to drink from a spring famous in the neighborhood for its clarity and flavor.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.