Following this, no further attempts were made to permanently colonize Clipperton Island, though it would be briefly occupied during the 1930s and ' 40s.

During the 1930s and 40s, significant improvements were made to the ground, making it one of the largest in the country at that time.

He also sought to break from the class-conscious conventions of the 1930s and early 40s, when top hat and tails or tuxedos were the norm, by dancing in casual or everyday work clothes, so as to make his dancing more relevant to the cinema-going public.

Lindy Hop moved off-shore in the 1930s and 40s, again in films and news reels, but also with American troops stationed overseas, particularly in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other allied nations.

Its origins were in African American vocal groups of the 1930s and 40s, like the Ink Spots and the Mills Brothers, who had enjoyed considerable commercial success with arrangements based on close harmonies.

Even though its authenticity has been called into question by some today, the Tanaka Memorial was widely accepted as authentic in the 1930s and 40s because Japan's actions corresponded so closely to these plans.

** William H. Hinton ( 1919-2004 ) visited China in the 1930s and 40s and wrote an influential account of the Communist land reform.

This preference for adaptive over inadaptive forces lead Stephen Jay Gould to call attention to the " hardening of the Modern Synthesis ," a trend in the 1950s where adaptationism took precedent over the pluralism of mechanisms common in the 1930s and 40s.

The Nobel laureate Arne Tiselius said that Avery was the most deserving scientist to not receive the Nobel Prize for his work, though he was nominated for the award throughout the 1930s, ' 40s and ' 50s.

In older times ( 1930s and 40s ), Egypt was a power house in weightlifting, boxing, and wrestling with several Olympic and world championship medals.

Carolina Shag can trace its origins to the southern United States during the Big Band Era of the 1930s and 40s.

Contemporary St. Louis shag, for instance, ( an eight-count dance ) does not look much like contemporary Carolina Shag, though both originated in the Swing era of the 1930s and 40s.

The book featured a frequent Richler theme: Jewish life in the 1930s and 40s in the neighbourhood of Montreal east of Mount Royal Park on and about St. Urbain Street and Saint Lawrence Boulevard ( known colloquially as " The Main ").

* Rogers ' image is one of many famous women's images of the 1930s and 40s featured on the bedroom wall in the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, a gallery of magazine cuttings pasted on the wall created by Anne and her sister Margot while hiding from the Nazis.

Java was also the center of the Indonesian struggle for independence during the 1930s and 40s.

Through the 1930s and ' 40s Wertheimer, Kohler and Koffka formulated many of the laws of grouping through the study of visual perception.

* Shamrock Noted for its turpentine industry in the 1930s and 40s.

* Harry Beverley, rugby league footballer of the 1930s and ' 40s, for Great Britain, England, Yorkshire, Hunslet, and Halifax

In the late 1930s and 40s, British County Court judge Arthur Alexander Gordon Clark ( 1900 – 1958 ) published a number of detective novels under the alias Cyril Hare in which he made use of his profoundly extensive knowledge of the English legal system.

In the late 1930s and early ’ 40s, the Rattlers, with their big man Ken “ Arky ” Croswell ( B. A.

He thrived in the heyday of the Warner Bros. studio in the 1930s and ' 40s.

It is from this abundance of natural beauty that grew the extensive daffodil industry which earned the county the title " Daffodil Capital of America " in the 1930s and 40s.

The 1930s / 40s British film, radio and music hall comedian Will Hay ( 1888 – 1949 ) lived at 7 Eddystone Road and later 40 Merritt Road, Crofton Park as a child in the late 1890s.

The first gossip columnist, dominating the 1930s and 40s, was Walter Winchell, who used political, entertainment, and social connections to mine information and rumors, which he then either published in his column On Broadway, or used for trade or blackmail, to accumulate more power.

New generations of artists who had graduated from the Academy ( Repin Institute of Arts ) in the 1930s – 50s were in their prime.

Already a preference is heard for the typical chord progression I-vi-IV-V that had generated several American 1930s hits such as Rogers and Hart's " Blue Moon " ( 1934 ), Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields ' 1936 " The Way You Look Tonight " and Hoagy Carmichael's " Heart and Soul " ( 1938 ), but would later become so closely associated with doo-wop that it is now sometimes referred to as the 50s progression.

Belair Stable, on the Estate, was part of the famous Belair Stud, one of the premier racing stables in the 1930s, ' 40s, and ' 50s.

Latin popular music in the United States began with a wave of dance bands in the 1930s and ' 50s.

Puerto Rican migration was prevalent in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, as many Puerto Ricans relocated to St. Croix to cut sugar cane after the collapse of the sugar industry in Puerto Rico.

Wantha Davis ( b. 1918 ) was well known to have won over 1, 000 races in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, including a famous 1949, six furlong match-race against Johnny Longden at Agua Caliente.

In the 1930s – 50s a bass instrument was also often used.

His hobbies included collecting books, comics, and German swords ; he also collected, traded, and sold tapes of radio programs of the 1930s, ' 40s, and ' 50s under the business-name " The Phantom of Radio Past ", advertising in such publications as the Fandom Directory.

They were immensely popular in America, Japan and Europe, touring the world in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, till today.

Thomas Henry Sargent ( 21 November 1894 – 7 May 1963 ), better known by the stage name Max Miller – the Cheeky Chappie-was a British front-cloth comedian who was top of the bill in variety in the 1930s, ' 40s and ' 50s.

Fain also composed music for more than 30 films in the 1930s, 40s and 50s.

Indochine is a 1992 French film set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 50s.

This was one of the last times a World Title changed hands legitimately ; and the legacy of this conspiracy was momentous, as it would be decades before promoters would ever feel comfortable putting their title on a non-wrestler again, thus fueling the support for expert “ hooker ” Lou Thesz to serve as a champion throughout the 1930s, 40s, 50s, and 60s.

During the 1930s and 1940s the fleet consisted of a mix of de Havilland DH. 50s, DH. 83 Fox Moths, DH. 84 Dragons, DH. 104 Doves and the de Havilland Australia DHA-3 Drover.

He formed his Pipes Quartet in the mid 1930s and broadcast regularly throughout the 1940s / 50s.

Corgi then introduced a new range: Corgi Classics, selling nostalgia cars, vans and trucks from the 1930s, ' 40s, ' 50s and ' 60s, aimed at those who had grown up during that period.

The Smithsonian Institution made recordings during the 1930s, ' 40s, and ' 50s that are close to 19th century music, while Indian House Records and Canyon Records began commercial recording in the ' 60s and ' 70s and Soundchief began recording in the ' 40s.

The earliest popular Latin music in the United States came with rumba in the early 1930s, and was followed by calypso in the mid-40s, mambo in the late 40s and early 50s, chachachá and charanga in the mid-50s, bolero in the late 50s and finally boogaloo in the mid-60s, while Latin music mixed with jazz during the same period, resulting in Latin jazz and the bossa nova fusion cool jazz.

It was later owned by Admiral North, then from the 1930s to the late ' 50s, by Commander Clair Vyner and his wife Lady Doris Vyner.

* no model name, often called " Déposé " ( 1930s, 40s and 50s ) These are often differentiated by the letter at the beginning of the serial number and referred to as " K-series ", " L-series ", " M-series " or " N-series ".

If those were the demographics as early as the 1890s, the flight of other ethnic groups, which began after the turn of the century, suggests that virtually the entire community from the Chicago River on the east end out to the western ends of what came to be known as " Little Italy " and from Roosevelt Road on the south to the Harrison Street delta on the north — the inner core of the Hull House Neighborhood, was wall-to-wall Italian from the 1930s through the ' 50s.

The main road is Connaught Road, a long road containing mixed Victorian terraces, Victorian / 1930s / 50s / 70s semis and larger detached houses.