After the war many players returned to their teams, while the major event of the second half of the 1940s was the 1945 signing of Jackie Robinson to a players contract by Branch Rickey the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Developments in metamathematics and category theory in the 1940s and 1950s furthered the field, particularly the work of Abraham Robinson, Alfred Tarski, Andrzej Mostowski, and their students ( Brainerd 1967 ).

In the late 1940s, CBS chairman William S. Paley, a fan of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe radio serial, asked his programming chief, Hubell Robinson, to develop a hardboiled Western series, a show about a " Philip Marlowe of the Old West.

alumni Larry Shields, Tony Sbarbaro, and J. Russell Robinson in New York into the 1940s.

He coached for the Monarchs in the late 1940s, managing their barnstorming " B " team, scouting for the club, signing prospects, and teaching the ins and outs of the game to future major-league baseball greats Ernie Banks, Jackie Robinson, and Elston Howard, among others.

A series of results developed in the 1940s through 1970 by Robinson, Martin Davis, Hilary Putnam, and Yuri Matiyasevich resolved this problem in the negative ; that is, they showed that no such algorithm can exist.

Using legal challenges, by the 1940s, black attorneys who included notables such as Thurgood Marshall, Oliver W. Hill, William H. Hastie, Spottswood W. Robinson III and Leon A. Ranson were gradually winning civil rights cases based upon federal constitutional issues.

Bergstrom had gained experience at the griddle and in kitchen management in the 1940s while working for John L. " Jack " Robinson during summers at a popular Minnesota State Fair cafeteria.

The Great Bardfield Artists of the 1940s and 1950s were: John Aldridge, Edward Bawden, George Chapman, Stanley Clifford-Smith, Audrey Cruddas, Walter Hoyle, Michael Rothenstein, Eric Ravilious ( who lodged with Bawden at Brick House ), Sheila Robinson and Marianne Straub.

Sherrill David Robinson ( January 1, 1922 – December 7, 2011 ), known as Jerry Robinson, was an American comic book artist known for his work on DC Comics ' Batman line of comics during the 1940s.

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Johnson's work in the 1940s and 1950s demonstrated that the slide trombone could be played in the bebop style.

As a comedian of the 1940s and 1950s he demonstrated his ad-libbing skills in his weekly radio show Ray's A Laugh from 1949 until 1961.

The toy was invented and developed by naval engineer Richard James in the early 1940s and demonstrated at Gimbels department store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in November 1945.

The most common definition is that premature ejaculation occurs if the man ejaculates within two minutes of penetration ; however, a survey by Alfred Kinsey in the 1940s demonstrated that three quarters of men ejaculate within two minutes of penetration in over half of their sexual encounters.

Such was and is the reductio ad absurdum of nationalism in its territorial version, although this was not fully demonstrated until the 1940s.

Although the negative effects of exercise-induced dehydration on exercise performance were clearly demonstrated in the 1940s, athletes continued to believe for years thereafter that fluid intake was not beneficial.

They licensed the process to Ciba AG in the early 1940s and Ciba first demonstrated a product under the tradename

Gale saw a narrative in the sequence of developments from the creation of the new infantry tactics of 1918, through to the tanks and airborne forces of the 1940s, that demonstrated the ' fundamental necessity of mobility on the battlefield ', and the importance of surprise at all levels of warfare.

Among the organizers and leaders of UE Local 107 at the Westinghouse South Philadelphia works were several former members of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ).< ref > Matles, James J. and Higgins, James, < i > Them and Us: Struggles of a Rank-and-File Union </ i >, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1974, hardcover, ISBN 0-13-913079-9 ; paperback reprint ISBN 0-13-913053-5, chapter 12 </ ref > While foes of UE in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s charged the union with " communist domination ," recent studies Stepan-Norris, Judith, and Zeitlin, Maurice, < i > Left Out: Reds and America's Industrial Unions </ i >, Cambridge University Press, 2003, hardcover ISBN 0-521-70212-6 ; paperback ISBN 0-521-79840-X </ ref > have demonstrated that UE was and remains one of the most democratic U. S. labor unions and that its policies differed markedly from those of the US Communist Party on a number of major issues during those decades.

The Jews of Kurdistan were forced to leave and migrate as a result of the Arab-Israeli war, as a result of the increasing hostility and acts of violence against Jews in Iraq and Kurdish towns and villages, and as a result of a new situation that had been built up during the 1940s in Iraq and Kurdistan in which the ability of Jews to live in relative comfort and relative tolerance ( that was erupted from time to time prior to that period ) with their Arab and Muslim neighbors, as they did for many years, practically came to an end.

" His ability to direct a string of classic literary adaptations into huge box-office and critical successes made him one of " Hollywood's most bankable moviemakers " during the 1930s and 1940s.

Ford, the pioneer of ecological genetics, continued throughout the 1930s and 1940s to demonstrate the power of selection due to ecological factors including the ability to maintain genetic diversity through genetic polymorphisms such as human blood types.

A crucial aspect to this, particularly in the 1940s and 1950s, was the ability to place an ' alien ' identity upon Labour by successfully using the term ' Socialist ' to describe the Labour Party.

In searching of a visual style for their act, they remembered the poverty of their childhood and their ability to improvise, and used their experience to assemble a collection of vintage 1940s clothes from thrift shops, that would comprise their costumes and give them the distinctive look they were searching for.

His administrative ability was noticed and he became Leader of the Council in the 1940s.

Margaret H ' Doubler wrote and spoke about kinesthetic learning during the 1940s, defining kinesthetic learning as the human body's ability to express itself through movement and dance.

In the NBA, Pollard was considered one of the best forwards in the 1940s and 1950s, and was known for his leaping ability ( Pollard would occasionally dunk from the free throw line during warmups ) earning him the nickname " The Kangaroo Kid ".

Varieties bearing this mutation, which have been favored by industry since the 1940s, feature fruits with lower levels of carotenoids and a decreased ability to make sugar within the fruit.

What helped the club succeed in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s were the strict limits imposed on foreign players.

The sexual connotations of the phrase " make out " appear to have developed in the 1930s and 1940s from the phrase's other meanings of " to succeed ".

Jean Carmet began working on stage and then in film in the early 1940s becoming a very popular comedic actor in his native country.

By the 1940s, what had started as a comedic country music genre became known as a form of wry political protest singing.

In the 1940s Spike Jones and his City Slickers parodied popular music in their own way, not by changing lyrics, but adding wild sound effects and comedic stylings to formerly staid old songs.

He remained highly popular as a comedic actor ( and sometime singer ) throughout the 1930s and early 1940s.

From the early 1940s through the end of the ' 50s, the band's field-show format transitioned from corps style to scrambling accompanied by comedic scripts.

Virtually all productions today, however, use the original ending, as do nearly all of the film versions of this play, including Dariush Mehrjui's Sara ( the Argentine version, made in 1943 and starring Delia Garcés, does not ; it also modernizes the story, setting it in the early 1940s ).

" And the song " New York, New York " ( by Betty Comden and Adolph Green from the 1940s musical comedy and film, " On the Town ") explains that " The Bronx is up and the Battery's down.

This form of comedy film was particularly popular during the 1930s and 1940s.

In the United Kingdom, film adaptations of stage farces were popular in the early 1930s, while the music hall tradition strongly influenced film comedy into the 1940s with Will Hay and George Formby among the top comedy stars of the time.

While he continued to be prolific throughout the 1930s and 1940s, he is probably best known for his 1956 film The Ten Commandments ( which is very different from his 1923 film of the same title ).

It is generally regarded that the British film industry enjoyed a ' golden age ' in the 1940s, led by the studios of J. Arthur Rank and Alexander Korda.

Hollywood's classical film noir period is generally regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s.

Film noir similarly embraces a variety of genres, from the gangster film to the police procedural to the gothic romance to the social problem picture — any example of which from the 1940s and 1950s, now seen as noir's classical era, was likely to be described as a " melodrama " at the time.

The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the " classic period " of American film noir.

The 1982 Steve Martin comedy Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was shot in black-and-white as a parody of a 1940s film noir and included footage of actors from the film-noir era such as Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lancaster, and others spliced in with the modern actors.

Universal's horror cycle continued into the 1940s, these included The Wolf Man ( 1941 ), not the first werewolf film, but certainly the most influential, as well as a number of films uniting several of their monsters.

In the mid 1940s, Caprino helped his mother design puppets for a puppet theatre, which inspired him to try making a film using his mother's designs.

Brown was inspired to become an entertainer after watching Louis Jordan, a popular jazz and R & B performer during the 1940s, and Jordan's Tympany Five performing " Caldonia " in a short film.

Like many of his movies, it is richly allusive and generates a lot of its humour and charm out of its references to American film of the 1930s and 1940s.

The film is a parody of B-movie, science fiction and horror films of the late 1940s through early 1970s.

He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for the series of Hollywood film noirs he made in the 1940s.

The screwball comedy is a principally American genre of comedy film that became popular during the Great Depression, originating in the early 1930s and thriving until the early 1940s.

Holm disappeared in the late 1940s, and according to Barer's history of The Saint, Charteris refused to allow Templar a steady girlfriend, or Holm to return ( although according to the Saintly Bible website, Charteris did write a film story that would have seen Templar encountering a son he had with Holm ).

* Vibranium is named on-screen in the feature film Captain America: The First Avenger, and is shown to exist in the 1940s.

By the early 1940s, the British film industry began to combine documentary techniques with fictional stories in films like Noël Coward's In Which We Serve ( 1942 ), Millions Like Us ( 1943 ) and The Way Ahead ( 1944 ).

From the Nazi espionage thrillers of the 1940s to the 007 films of the ' 60s and to the high-tech blockbusters of today, the spy film has always been popular with audiences worldwide.

In 2011, she played " Lenore Case ", the journalist in the remake of the 1940s film The Green Hornet, and was the central lead in the hit comedy Bad Teacher.

" Film critic David Richard Jones adds that Kazan, during the 1940s and 1950s, was one of America's foremost Stanislavskians, and " influenced thousands of contemporaries " in the theatre, film, and the Actors Studio that he helped found.