Throughout the remainder of the 1940s and 1950s, the Bank financed projects seeking to dam rivers, generate electricity, and improve access to water and sanitation.

Following the completion of Kentucky Dam in the 1940s, rumors began that a dam would be built on the lower Cumberland.

Lillooet's economy also boomed in the 1940s and 50s during the construction of the Bridge River Power Project, which includes a dam, canal and powerhouse on the outskirts of town.

All of the dams were constructed by the Lower Colorado River Authority during the 1930s and 1940s, following two unsuccessful attempts to construct a dam upstream from Austin.

Road transport was used when the Claerwen dam was built in the late 1940s and 50s.

Dams continued to be constructed in the 1940s and 1950s on the Yaqui River and its tributaries with the largest reservoir, behind the Oviachic dam, completed in 1952.

Maximum flood frequency was seen to reach a maximum in the early 1900s and declined in the 1940s and 1950s prior to the construction of the dam.

The dam is one of nine dams on the main Tennessee River channel operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in early 1940s to provide flood control and electricity and to help create a continuous navigable channel along the entire length of the river.

The dam is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority ( TVA ), which built the dam in the early 1940s as part of a unified plan to provide electricity and flood control in the Tennessee Valley and create a continuous navigable river channel from Knoxville, Tennessee to Paducah, Kentucky.

Originally constructed as a workers ' settlement during the construction of Warragamba Dam, Sydney's primary water source, in the 1940s the modern town of Warragamba remains on the same site adjacent the dam.

Area irrigation interests conducted their own study later in the 1940s, determining that a larger dam capable of holding would better suit their needs.

The dam is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1940s to accommodate the skyrocketing electricity demands in the Tennessee Valley at the height of World War II.

The region was settled in the 1940s after the construction of the La Angostura dam and 151 members of the government division of irrigation were given land in the Mayo Valley in place of what would have been compensation with cash.

Korzybzki was well received in numerous disciplinary realms, as evidenced by the positive reactions from leading persons in the sciences and humanities in the 1940s and 1950s.

The French critics thought it was characteristic of American films of the 1930s or 1940s ; however, it was mostly characteristic of cheaper American movies, such as Charlie Chan mysteries where people collected in front of a fireplace or at the foot of the stairs in order to explain what happened a few minutes ago.

In the 1940s, Joan appeared on-stage in an Agatha Christie play, Appointment with Death, which was seen by Christie who wrote in a note to her, " I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple ".

It was not until the 1940s that the first general-purpose computers were actually built.

Despite this, Babbage's work fell into historical obscurity and the Analytical Engine was unknown to builders of electro-mechanical and electronic computing machines in the 1930s and 1940s when they began their work, resulting in the need to re-invent many of the architectural innovations Babbage had proposed.

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.

The term " allophone " was coined by Benjamin Lee Whorf in the 1940s.

This replica was discovered in a cave by a Swedish German missionary named Harald von Sicard in the 1940s and eventually found its way to the Museum of Human Science in Harare.

By the 1940s, the term commonly was capitalized, Negro, but by the mid 1960s it was considered disparaging.

By the late 1940s it was known that the properties of atomic nucleus could not be explained by the then-current models ( such as the liquid drop model developed by Niels Bohr amongst others ).

His first major published work was in 1911, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, and was arguably the most prominent US folk music scholar of his time, notably during the beginnings of the folk music revival in the 1930s and early 1940s.

The American folk music revival was a phenomenon in the United States that began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s.

Capp was also involved with the Sister Kenny Foundation, which pioneered new treatments for polio in the 1940s.

For many years, bouldering was commonly viewed as a playful training activity for climbers, although in the 1930s and late 1940s Pierre Allain and his companions enjoyed bouldering for its own sake in Fontainebleau, considered by many to be the Mecca of bouldering.

Six former Oriole franchise radio announcers have received the Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting: Chuck Thompson ( who was also the voice of the old NFL Baltimore Colts ); Jon Miller ( now with the San Francisco Giants ); Ernie Harwell, Herb Carneal ; Bob Murphy and Harry Caray ( as a St. Louis Browns announcer in the 1940s.

During the 1940s Haley was considered one of the top cowboy yodelers in America as " Silver Yodeling Bill Haley ".

Following two minor heart attacks he had to undergo an emergency quadruple heart bypass in 1983, after which he was extremely weak, but he still managed to attend a 1988 Congressional hearing with old colleagues such as Jimmy Stewart and Ginger Rogers to protest media magnate Ted Turner's plan to colorize various black-and-white films from the 1930s and 1940s.

His mother, Rikkat Uyanık, was a famous singer in early 1940s.

Another precursor was the early development of the theory of computation and the digital computer in the 1940s and 1950s.

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

She described in her memoir, Harsh Route ( or Steep Route ), of a case which she was directly involved in during the late 1940s, after she had been moved to the prisoners ' hospital.

After the industrial scale production of cadmium started in the 1930s and 1940s, the major application of cadmium was the coating of iron and steel to prevent corrosion ; in 1944, 62 % and in 1956, 59 % of the cadmium in the United States was for coating.

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

Hugh Le Caine, John Hanert, Raymond Scott, composer Percy Grainger ( with Burnett Cross ), and others built a variety of automated electronic-music controllers during the late 1940s and 1950s.

The Crest Theatre is now listed in the NSW State Heritage Register as being of " State significance ", being one of the few cinemas built in Australia in the 1940s.

Later its growth continued from flight operations at the Keflavík International Airport which was built by the US during the 1940s.

A 114 km railway between Mogadishu and Jawhar, built by the Italians in the 1910s, was dismantled by the British in the 1940s.

Starting in the 1940s, skis built up from a number of different types of wood glued together became common.

From the 1830s until the 1940s, mechanical calculating machines such as adders and multipliers were built and improved, but they could not perform an " if / goto " and therefore are not true computers.

* 2. 288 Mm — Length of the official Alaska Highway when it was built in the 1940s

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.

The Pattern playback was built by Dr. Franklin S. Cooper and his colleagues at Haskins Laboratories in the late 1940s and completed in 1950.

With the continuous growth of the city's population and its expanding economy centered on the seaport, from the 1940s, Portugal's administration built a network of primary and secondary schools, industrial and commercial schools as well as the first university in the region-the University of Lourenço Marques opened in 1962.

The city consists of a central district built in Soviet 1940s and 1950s-style architecture, surrounded by and mingled with residential concrete towerblocks and large yurt quarters.

* The Olympia, a glider built in numbers in the 1940s in the United Kingdom

This was initially intended to be an L-head engine, and 8 experimental units were built and extensively tested by the end of the 1940s.

With a spirit of rebellion Catawbans split with Lincoln County ; a spirited people united and fought a major polio epidemic in the 1940s ; an entrepreneurial spirit built a thriving economy ; a patriotic spirit resulted in the oldest continuing patriotic celebration in the US — the annual Soldier's Reunion in Newton ; an artistic spirit is reflected in our furniture artisans, music, quilting, pottery, etc.

The Lesney die cast model factory was built in the 1940s on the Homerton side of the Lee Navigation, just north of Homerton Road, producing for many years their Matchbox brand.

Soon, those who had stocked largemouth bass on their farm ponds began to pursue them on a burgeoning number of new reservoirs and impoundments built in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s.

Some of these trees were used to act as fire lookout towers built during the 1930s and 1940s.

It was destroyed by a hurricane in the 1940s and the Church standing today was built in 1947.

The operation was purchased by the United States government in the 1940s and a slaughterhouse was built in 1945.

The Eklutna Power Project was also built in the 1940s, including tract housing for employees.

With a new city cemetery built elsewhere, the old cemetery stopped accepting new burials in about 1883 ( save for very few exceptions ) and fell into disrepair until the 1940s, when the city began to restore and preserve the graveyard.

New Canaan was an important center of the modern design movement from the late 1940s through roughly the 1960s, when about 80 modern homes were built in town.