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.

In the 1930s, ' 40s and ' 50s the clay extraction requirements of a brick factory north of the A3 off Red Lion Road ( now Red Lion Industrial Park ) produced a large water-filled pit ( known locally as " The Bluey ") which was used as a landfill site for bomb-damage and industrial material removed from bomb-sites resulting from the " Blitz ".

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.

During part of the 1930s, before the opening of New York City's Marine Air Terminal, Port Washington was the New York base of the Yankee Clipper Boeing 314 seaplane.

This was until FM broadcasting radio re-emerged in the 1960s ( following FM's initial appearance and disappearance during the 1930s and 1940s-see Yankee Network for more details on early FM broadcasting and a tragic legacy to the Sarnoff story ).

He is best known for his time spent with the star-studded New York Yankee teams of the mid to late 1920s and early 1930s.

The Yankee farm system churned out many of the players who would lead the Bronx Bombers to their four consecutive ( 1936 – 39 ) World Series titles in the 1930s, their five straight titles ( 1949 – 53 ), and their six other championship clubs sprinkled throughout the rest of the 1940s and 1950s.

Another feature of the population was the number of Spanish-born colonists, known as peninsulares, who were mostly adult males ; they constituted between ten and twenty per cent of the population between the middle of the 19th century and the great depression of the 1930s.

The 1930s saw the beginnings of larger scale themes, commonalities, themes and linkages in folk music developing in the populace and practitioners as well, often related to the great depression.

Protectionist policies were particularly prevalent in the 1930s, between the great depression and the onset of World War II.

Common use of the phrase " The Great Depression " for the 1930s crisis is most frequently attributed to British economist Lionel Robbins, whose 1934 book The Great Depression is credited with ' formalizing ' the phrase, though US president Herbert Hoover is widely credited with having ' popularized ' the term / phrase, informally referring to the downturn as a " depression ", with such uses as " Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement ", ( December 1930, Message to Congress ) and " I need not recount to you that the world is passing through a great depression " ( 1931 ).

In the late 1930s, Hindemith wrote a theoretical book The Craft of Musical Composition ( Hindemith 1937 – 70 ), which lays out this system in great detail.

His influence grew till he was Chairman of the Metropolitan Water District, where he helped oversee the second great aqueduct that boosted Los Angeles's position, the Colorado River Aqueduct to Los Angeles in the 1930s.

The term was first used in this way in the early 1930s, though it is now used less frequently ; Jehovah's Witnesses now usually use the terms great crowd ( people who survive Armageddon ) and other sheep ( Armageddon survivors and others resurrected later ).

However, a great deal of the significant land distribution which Zapata sought would later be enacted after Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas took office in the 1930s.

André Godard, the French archaeologist who excavated Persepolis in the early 1930s, believed that it was Cyrus the Great ( Kūrosh ) who chose the site of Persepolis, but that it was Darius the Great ( Daryush ) who built the terrace and the great palaces.

In the 1930s through the 1950s it was played with great dexterity by Paul ' Hezzie ' Trietsch, one of the founding members of the Hoosier Hot Shots.

Pastoralists arrived in the area shortly afterward with Charles Brockman setting up Boolatha Station in 1877 and the region experienced success in wool production until the 1930s when the overgrazing, drought and the great depression caused most businesses to fail.

During the 1930s Renoir enjoyed great success as a filmmaker.

Dave Stevens ' nostalgic comics series The Rocketeer contains a great number of pop culture references to the 1930s.

The 1930s did bring Snohomish some national notice, however, due to baseball great Earl Averill, the only Washingtonian in the Baseball Hall of Fame, who played from 1929 to 1941, mostly with the Cleveland Indians.

At the time, Sichuan was China's most populous province, but it had been economically devastated by the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, whose collective policies had collapsed the province's agricultural production to levels not seen since the 1930s, despite a great increase in the province's population.

The original windshaft, wallower, upright shaft and great spur wheel are made of cast iron, as are the tooth ring of the wooden brakewheel with its timber clasp arm construction and wooden brake, all installed in the 1930s.

Although the rugged American patriotism of his works of the 1930s and 1940s is reflected in his research into and use of folk music ( and to a lesser extent of jazz rhythms ), Harris was paradoxically obsessed with the great European pre-classical forms, especially the fugue ( which we hear in the Third Symphony ) and passacaglia ( as featured in the Seventh ).

Regrettably the great depression of the 1930s halted growth, although defaults were not as severe as in the 1870s.

In fact, the appearance of fado singing professional companies in the 1930s allowed promoting shows with great casts and their circulation in theatres north and south of the country, and even in international tours.

His first appearance in a British film was in 1931, and from the late 1930s he was in great demand in Hollywood.

Steelband and pan music have achieved great popularity in Trinidad, and was developed circa the 1930s in Laventille, Port of Spain.

The tendency to combine different elements also has a long presence in more classical music: the opera Ero s onoga svijeta, written by Jakov Gotovac in the 1930s, blended the traditional music of the Dinaric peoples into a scholarly form and achieved great success.

The United States passed antitrust laws in the 1920s and social welfare laws in the 1930s ; after the Great Depression, people went to great lengths to rebuild their financial security, and it is theorized this led workers — who worked hard and long and felt underpaid — to take advantage of their positions.

Novelty songs achieved great popularity during the 1920s and 1930s.

Branch Rickey, the Cardinals executive who had developed their farm system and built the great 1930s Cardinals teams, found Dean's homespun candidness and observations refreshing.