The best reason that can be advanced for the state adopting the practice was the advent of expanded highway construction during the 1920s and '30s.

She also was the original GOP national committeewoman from New Jersey in the early 1920s following adoption of the women's suffrage amendment.

Chaâbi music is a typically Algerian musical genre that was derived from the Andalusian music during the 1920s.

Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.

In Canada this practice occurred during the 1890s, but was not commonplace until the 1920s.

In the 1910s and 1920s, agrarianism garnered significant popular attention, but was eclipsed in the postwar period.

For a while in the 1920s and 1930s there was a Green International ( International Agrarian Bureau ) based on the peasant parties in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Serbia.

The movie was set in 1920s rural Mexico.

Phage therapy was in use in the 1920s and 1930s in the US, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe.

What they and many others of that generation in the Nordic countries had in common was that they started off from a classical education and were first designing in the so-called Nordic Classicism style – a style that had been a reaction to the previous dominant style of National Romanticism – before moving, in the late 1920s, towards Modernism.

Great progress was made in the field of aviation during the 1920s and 1930s, such as Charles Lindbergh's solo transatlantic flight in 1927, and Charles Kingsford Smith's transpacific flight the following year.

Anton Drexler ( 13 June 1884 – 24 February 1942 ) was a German far-right political leader of the 1920s, instrumental in the formation of the anti-communist German Workers ' Party.

The first commercially produced synthetic adhesive was Karlsons klister in the 1920s.

The height of Nimzowitsch's career was the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Modern advertising was created with the innovative techniques introduced with tobacco advertising in the 1920s, most significantly with the campaigns of Edward Bernays, which is often considered the founder of modern, Madison Avenue advertising.

In the early 1920s, when Moses Jackson was dying in Canada, Housman wanted to assemble his best unpublished poems so that Jackson could read them before his death.

The Chicago Outfit, which subsequently became known as the " Capones ", was dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging liquor, and other illegal activities such as prostitution, in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931.

The problem is sometimes known as season cracking after it was first discovered in brass cartridge cases used for rifle ammunition during the 1920s in the Indian Army.

Here Vernon and Irene Castle were important, and so was a generation of English dancers in the 1920s, including Josephine Bradley and Victor Silvester.

Berlin in the 1920s was the third largest municipality in the world.

This theory of Homer's influence on Beowulf remained very prevalent in the 1920s, but started to die out in the following decade when a handful of critics stated that the two works were merely “ comparative literature ” although Greek was known in contemporary England.

In the 1920s and 1930s almost every major cosmologist preferred an eternal steady state Universe, and several complained that the beginning of time implied by the Big Bang imported religious concepts into physics ; this objection was later repeated by supporters of the steady state theory.

He was one of the most popular blues singers of the 1920s, and has been titled " Father of the Texas Blues ".

Over his long career, Nichols recorded in a wide variety of musical styles, and critic Steve Leggett describes him as " an expert cornet player, a solid improviser, and apparently a workaholic, since he is rumored to have appeared on over 4, 000 recordings during the 1920s alone.

Dempsey was one of the so-called " big five " sports legends of the 1920s, and it was widely rumored that he had refused to participate in the military during World War I.

By the 1920s, composers of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway used ballad to signify a slow, sentimental tune or love song, often written in a fairly standardized form ( see below ).

In the early 1920s, " apple " was used in reference to the many racing courses in and around New York City.

He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s.

The Thomas-Fermi theory, developed in the 1920s, was used to estimate electronic energy levels by treating the local electron density as a variational parameter.

In the early 1920s the Yugoslav government of Serbian prime minister Nikola Pasic used police pressure over voters and ethnic minorities, confiscation of opposition pamphlets and other measures of election rigging to keep the opposition, and mainly the Croatian Peasant Party and its allies in minority in Yugoslav parliament.

The concept can be traced to at least the Dadaists of the 1920s, but was popularized in the late 1950s and early 1960s by writer William S. Burroughs, and has since been used in a wide variety of contexts.

When the Nazis came to power in 1933 they made the legend an integral part of their official history of the 1920s, portraying the Weimar Republic as the work of the " November criminals " who used the stab in the back to seize power while betraying the nation.

Because an unamplified upright bass is generally the quietest instrument in a jazz band, many players of the 1920s and 1930s used the slap style, slapping and pulling the strings so that they make a rhythmic " slap " sound against the fingerboard.

The early models were used commercially from the early 1920s, and adopted by military and government services of several countries — most notably by Nazi Germany before and during World War II .< ref >

Duddell didn't further develop his invention, but in 1902 Danish physicists Valdemar Poulsen and P. O. Pederson were able to increase the frequency produced into the radio range, inventing the Poulsen arc radio transmitter, the first continuous wave radio transmitter, which was used through the 1920s.

Hobbyists in the 1920s used carbon button microphones attached to the bridge, however these detected vibration from the bridge on top of the instrument, resulting in a weak signal.

A ketogenic diet ( high-fat, low-carbohydrate ) was first tested in the 1920s, but became less used with the advent of effective anticonvulsants.

It had a " golden age " in the United Kingdom in the early 1920s when crowds reached 50, 000 at some matches ; this was stopped on 5 December 1921 when England's Football Association voted to ban the game from grounds used by its member clubs.

A gauge railway, known as the Camber Railway, was built along the north side of Stanley Harbour in 1915-1916 and used until the 1920s.

Although many factors can be used to measure the success of the industry, the number of British films produced each year gives an overview of its development: the industry experienced a boom as it first developed in the 1910s ( see 1910s in film ), but during the 1920s ( see 1920s in film ) experienced a recession caused by US competition and commercial practices.

For example, boric acid was widely used as a food preservative from the 1870s to the 1920s, but was banned after World War I due to its toxicity, as demonstrated in animal and human studies.

In China, Mao Zedong in the 1920s used revolutionary slogans and paintings in public places to galvanise the country's communist revolution.

* Billingham ( in Stockton-on-Tees ) and Wilton ( in present day Redcar and Cleveland ): ICI used the site to manufacture fertilisers in the 1920s and went on to produce plastics at Billingham in 1934.

In Japan, the term rezubian, a Japanese pronunciation of " lesbian ", was used during the 1920s.

To the north, the foreshore used to be around Government Avenue in the 1920s but it shifted to a new road, King Faisal Road, in the early 1930s which became the coastal road.

The author used the title A Moveable Feast for his late-life memoirs of his early life as a struggling writer in Paris in the 1920s.

Many auto camps were used as havens and hide-outs for criminals of the 1920s ; Bonnie and Clyde had a shootout in the infamous Red Crown Tourist Court near Kansas City on July 20, 1933.