In North America, during the 1930s and 1940s, the Library of Congress worked through the offices of traditional music collectors Robert Winslow Gordon, Alan Lomax and others to capture as much North American field material as possible.

Bill Haley recorded prolifically during the 1940s, often at the radio stations where he worked, or in formal studio settings.

In North America, during the 1930s and 1940s, the Library of Congress worked through the offices of traditional music collectors Robert Winslow Gordon, Alan Lomax and others to capture as much North American field material as possible.

At one point in the earliest 1940s, approximately half of all the pulp sf and fantasy magazines in the U. S. were being edited by Futurians: Frederik Pohl at the Popular Publications offshoot Fictioneers, Inc. ( Astonishing Stories and Super-Science Stories ); Robert Lowndes at Columbia Publications, most notably with Science Fiction and Future Fiction ( though through the decade to come, Lowndes's responsibilities would expand to other types of fiction magazine in the chain ), and Donald Wollheim at the very marginal Albing Publications with the short-lived, micro-budgeted Cosmic Stories and Stirring Science Stories ( Wollheim soon moved on to Avon Books ; Doë " Leslie Perri " Baumgardt also worked on a romance fiction title for Albing ).

Expatriates from China have a history going back to the 1940s ; today, many of the Chinese are second-generation children of immigrants who came to the city and worked as dentists, chefs and shoemakers.

Throughout most of the 1940s, Meher Baba worked with a category of spiritual aspirant called masts, whom he said are entranced or spellbound by internal spiritual experiences.

His seminal teaching often focused on the importance of religion to practical social and political issues of the day, and he worked against secularism in the 1940s.

Hamming worked at Bell Labs in the 1940s on the Bell Model V computer, an electromechanical relay-based machine with cycle times in seconds.

In the 1940s and early 1950s Burton worked on stage and in cinema in the United Kingdom.

During 1930s and 1940s, Foglar worked as a magazine editor in one of the largest Prague publishing houses, Melantrich.

In the 1940s he also worked as a graphic artist and produced black-and-white illustrations for several books and over one hundred original lithographs at the Mourlot Studios in Paris.

She taught ' Workshop in the Novel ' at New York University in 1943 and 1944, and also worked as a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1940s, contributing to the Madame Curie biopic and the John Ford and John Wayne war movie, They Were Expendable.

In the 1940s, Hu worked under Deng as the a political commissar in the Second Field Army.

They developed engines powered by aniline and nitric acid .. Robert Goddard, Reaction Motors and Curtiss-Wright worked on aniline / nitric acid engines in the early 1940s, for small missiles and jet assisted take-off ( JATO ).

The combination of civil and military operations worked well until the early 1940s when military requirements began to require the relocation of civil aviation activities.

He worked for numerous companies including Marvel Comics ' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics ; Vin Sullivan's Magazine Enterprises, where he created Skyman ; and at EC, where he served a brief stint as head writer.

In the 1940s, Phillips worked as a DJ and radio engineer for Muscle Shoals radio station WLAY ( AM ).

She worked with him in the British Library in the 1940s as he collected source material for his anthology A Book of Voyages, which became the first book to bear his new name — the book was among his favourites, because of this close collaboration.

In the late 1940s he worked at Jimmy Ryan's in New York City.

The town of Oak View " sprang up " in the late 1940s and early 1950s as a bedroom community primarily, although not exclusively, for those who worked in the oil industry in nearby Ventura.

In the 1940s, Bill Bemis worked at Jim Johnson's store in nearby Gold Point, North Carolina and painted pictures for a hobby.

Daniels had worked with Vance in New York on Broadway in the early 1940s.

Following Jijé's lead in the 1940s, Franquin coached a younger generation of cartoonists in the 1950s, notably Jean Roba, Jidéhem and Greg, who all worked with him on Spirou et Fantasio.

Martin worked for various bands throughout the early 1940s, mostly on looks and personality until he developed his own singing style.

In the early 1940s he worked in a foundry in Bayonne, New Jersey where he was an organizer and shop steward for the United Electrical Workers as well as a recruiter for the SWP.

The novel is believed to be based on the cholera epidemic that killed a large percentage of Oran's population in 1849 following French colonization, but the novel is placed in the 1940s.

Bloch was shot by the Gestapo during the German occupation of France in World War II for his active membership of the French Resistance, and Febvre carried on the Annales approach in the 1940s and 1950s.

After the Communists took control in the 1940s Polish scholars were safer working on the Middle Ages and the early modern era rather than contemporary history.

His work on sheaf theory hardly appears in his published papers, but correspondence with Henri Cartan in the late 1940s, and reprinted in his collected papers, proved most influential.

Wills favored jazz-like arrangements and the band found national popularity into the 1940s with such hits as " Steel Guitar Rag ", " New San Antonio Rose ", " Smoke on the Water ", " Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima ", and " New Spanish Two Step ".

FBI pressure on Chaplin grew after his 1942 campaign for a second European front in the war and reached a critical level in the late 1940s, when Congressional figures threatened to call him as a witness in hearings.

The widely accepted notion that the security of the system should depend on the key alone has been explicitly formulated by Auguste Kerckhoffs ( in the 1880s ) and Claude Shannon ( in the 1940s ); the statements are known as Kerckhoffs ' principle and Shannon's Maxim respectively.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the crest of the former metropolitan borough of Greenwich was used as a symbol for the club but this was not used on the team's shirts.

Stalin's emphasis on the importance of political and economic work led to another wave of reorganisation of the Central Committee departments in the late-1930s and 1940s.

The series ' art direction centers on American music and counterculture, especially the beat and jazz movements of the 1940s – 1960s and the early rock and roll era of the 1950s – 1970s, which the original soundtrack by Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts defines.

These fields of study were essentially created by Claude Shannon, who published fundamental papers on the topic in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Some conventional destroyers were completed in the late 1940s and 1950s which built on wartime experience.

Gut strings provide the dark, " thumpy " sound heard on 1940s and 1950s recordings.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Kaye starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940s, and is well known for his roles in films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), On the Riviera ( 1951 ) co-starring Gene Tierney, Knock on Wood ( 1954 ), White Christmas ( 1954, in a role originally intended for Fred Astaire, then Donald O ' Connor ), The Court Jester ( 1956 ), and Merry Andrew ( 1958 ).

When the popularity of superheroes faded in the late 1940s, the company focused on such genres as science fiction, Westerns, humor, and romance.

In the late 1940s, in Britain, Ealing Studios embarked on their series of celebrated comedies, including Whisky Galore !, Passport to Pimlico, Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Man in the White Suit, and Carol Reed directed his influential thrillers Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol and The Third Man.

Italian neorealism of the 1940s, with its emphasis on quasi-documentary authenticity, was an acknowledged influence on trends that emerged in American noir.

Movies with budgets a step up the ladder, known as " intermediates " within the industry, might be treated as A or B pictures depending on the circumstance — Monogram created a new unit, Allied Artists, in the late 1940s to focus on this sort of production.

By the 1940s the island had an airport ( just west of Puerto del Rosario on the road to Tindaya, still visible today ).

In the 1940s, James Dean lived with an uncle on a farm north of Fairmount.