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The title was used mainly in developed countries from the 1880s to 1940s during the electrification of industry, but is still used in some developing countries.

The years from approximately 1900 to the late 1940s saw very little in the way of crannog excavation in Scotland, while Ireland did witness some important and highly influential contributions.

As early as the 1940s, scientists in the U. S. had begun expressing concern over possible hazards associated with DDT, and in the 1950s the government began tightening some of the regulations governing its use.

From the 1940s through the Vietnam War, some notable gay servicemembers avoided discharges despite pre-screening efforts, and when personnel shortages occurred, homosexuals were allowed to serve.

Defining a single point in the series as the " first computer " misses many subtleties ( see the table " Defining characteristics of some early digital computers of the 1940s " below ).

Because Banaba was devastated by phosphate mining, the vast majority of Banabans moved to the island of Rabi in the Fiji Islands in the 1940s where they now number some 5, 000 and enjoy full Fijian citizenship.

This is one reason why some of the films from the 1930s and 1940s are considered " stagey " by today's standards.

Remey lived for some time in Washington, D. C., in the 1930s and 1940s.

817 Ukrainian civilians ( out of some 100, 000 ) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s are reburied.

Hollywood was instrumental in producing dozens of classic films during the 1940s, several of which were about the war and some are on most lists of all-time great films.

In particular, in the 1940s there were several test launches of the V-2 rocket, some of which reached altitudes well over 100 km.

The three-tier race structure, which existed well into the 1940s and in some societies beyond, upheld the belief of European racial superiority, although most West Indians are of African descent.

Most of Albania's telephones were obsolete, low-quality East European models, some dating from the 1940s ; workers at a Tirana factory assembled a small number of telephones from Italian parts.

At some point in the 1940s, Turner moved into Clarksdale ’ s Riverside Hotel, run by Mrs. Z. L.

Regional science was founded in the late 1940s when some economists began to become dissatisfied with the low level of regional economic analysis and felt an urge to upgrade it.

Edwards and Sbarbaro formed some bands without other original members in the 1940s and 1950s under the ODJB name.

In some communities where square dancing has survived, the prevailing form of music has become popular songs from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, played on instruments such as saxophones, drums, and electric guitars.

Since the late 1940s with the dissolution of British India and creation of Pakistan, some rigid Pashtun nationalists proposed merging with Afghanistan or creating Pashtunistan as a future sovereign state for the local Pashtun inhabitanits of the area.

He is credited with negotiating some of her more lucrative contracts in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

In the 1940s a group of artists, some able to study under the G. I.

Pete Harrison, a respected journalist, suggested that the Senate pass a bill allowing theater owners to refuse to show films that “ were not in the best interest of our country .” That did not happen, but one of the ways that some senators attempted to retaliate for the damage they felt the film had done to the reputation of their institution was by pushing the passage of the Neely Anti-Block Booking Bill, which eventually led to the breakup of the studio-owned theater chains in the late 1940s.

There were many other recordings, including some taken from radio broadcasts and concerts, during the 1930s and early 1940s.

His very sophisticated — and complicated — way of procuring willing women for his " outfit " can only be understood if one considers the morally repressed society of the late 1940s: Again and again, he assumes the role of John Hanson, a student in some provincial college ( for example in the Midwest ), pretends falling in love with a female student, makes her pregnant, forces her to have an illegal abortion, and then deserts her.

Despite these high-profile reports from Arkansas and Florida and sporadic reports elsewhere in the historic range of the species since the 1940s, there is no conclusive evidence for the continued existence of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker ; i. e., there are no unambiguous photographs, videos, specimens or DNA samples from feathers or feces of the Ivory-billed.

In the 1940s, new interpretations of John's reign began to emerge, based on research into the record evidence of his reign, such as pipe rolls, charters, court documents and similar primary records.

* Philby, Burgess and MacLean – Spy Scandal of the Century, a BBC drama produced for TV in 1977, covers the period of the late 1940s, when British intelligence investigated Kim Philby's colleague Donald Maclean until 1955 when the British government cleared Philby because it did not have enough evidence to convict him.

Leach replied they would not find evidence for that " because it's just not showing up in the cookbooks until really the 1940s in Australia.

These academics made use of a growing amount of archaeological evidence, as the 1940s saw an increasing number of excavations of motte and bailey castles, and the number of castle excavations as a whole went on to double during the 1960s.

Boult had striven to maintain the orchestra's standards and prestige during the war ; as an instance of its prowess in the 1940s Kennedy cites an HMV recording of Elgar's Second Symphony released in January 1945: " a performance that blazed with excitement and passion and is documentary evidence of the excellence of the orchestra in 1944 ".

* Abe " Kid Twist " Reles – Potential witness, who was murdered before he could give evidence against other members of Murder, Inc. in the early 1940s

It included brick structures, some evidence of which could still be seen in the 1940s.

The story begins in the 1940s in a small town called Little Hangleton, describing how the Riddle family was mysteriously killed at supper, and how their groundsman, Frank Bryce, was suspected of the crime, then declared innocent due to lack of evidence.

A standard item of evidence used against them was a record of their arrest in Yan ' an during the Rectification Movement – phony charges from the 1940s appeared twenty years later as “ proof ” of an individual ’ s disloyalty.

The " Notes to the Second Edition " mentions the contradictory evidence in dating the manuscripts, and an alternative date is presented: they may have been written in the 1940s.

There is some evidence that the site was used as a greyhound track in the late 1940s.

However, there is evidence that he was recruited several years earlier and had been spying on the liberal internationalist organizations he had been a member of in the late 1940s.

Despite literature on Dance Therapy dating back to the 1940s, there remains no scientific evidence what so ever for the therapeutic efficacy of DMT.

There is photographic evidence of Smith's large paintings created in the 1940s, however the works themselves were destroyed by Smith himself.

Firm photographic evidence exists in the form of photographs of Parisian singer Mistinguett from the 1940s.

He wrote about several miscarriages of justice in the 1940s and 1950s, such as the hanging of Timothy Evans when it later emerged that serial killer John Christie had murdered Evans's wife and had given perjured evidence at Evans's trial in 1949.

As cases with little or no corroborative evidence were generally excluded from consideration during Ruppelt's tenure with Blue Book, the remaining unknowns arguably constitute some of the best-known, best studied, yet still perplexing UFO reports of the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Other details cited are common knowledge and not evidence of the factual nature of the memories ; subjects asked to provide historical information that would allow checking provided only vague responses that did not allow for verification, and sometimes were unable to provide critical details that would have been common knowledge ( e. g. a subject who was unable to provide the name of the Emperor of Japan during the 1940s despite describing a life of a Japanese fighter pilot during World War II ).

The prosecutors in the internal-security cases of the 1940s did not know they had not been given all, or even the best government evidence, against the Rosenbergs, and others.

It went on to say that at the site there was little evidence of the money that had been spent ; several of the pieces were from the 1940s and 1950s, as opposed to the nineteenth century, which was the time period that was supposedly being preserved ; that some of the better pieces of equipment were actually foreign, Canadian, to be precise ; other museums, already in existence, were already fulfilling the historical mission of Steamtown ; and that other NPS projects like Yosemite and Yellowstone were in desperate need of funding.