Originally purchased in the 1940s for under $ 10, the piece was assigned an insurance value of $ 60, 000 by the appraiser, Alan Fausel.

In the case of Lloyd's this resulted in the bankruptcy of thousands of individual investors who indemnified ( via RITC ) general liability insurance written from the 1940s to the mid 1970s for companies with exposure to asbestosis claims.

Until the 1940s, sprinklers were installed almost exclusively for the protection of commercial buildings, whose owners were generally able to recoup their expenses with savings in insurance costs.

In the 1940s, Colón was president of the Cervantes Fraternal Society, the Spanish language division of the pro-Communist International Workers Order ( IWO ), a non-profit fraternal organization ( life & health insurance, social and cultural activities, etc.

By the 1940s the company's work included " being wheat and general merchants ; country distribution for Commonwealth Oil Refineries Ltd ; wool, live stock, skin and produce auctioneers ; grain & fruit exporters ; insurance underwriters ; acquiring agents for the wheat pool of W. A.

They were passed in the 1940s in the United States to discourage people from drinking alcoholic beverages and to save insurance companies money from alcohol-related claims.

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.

Advancements in biochemical engineering in the 1940s, for example, found application in the pharmaceutical industry, and allowed for the mass production of various antibiotics, including penicillin and streptomycin.

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.

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.

The discovery of bauxite in the 1940s and the subsequent establishment of the bauxite-alumina industry shifted Jamaica's economy from sugar and bananas.

While serving as prime minister during the 1940s, Didi nationalized the fish export industry.

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 ).

The population grew steadily to support the tourism industry and by the 1940s, real estate speculators and journalists were referring to the area as the " Gold Coast.

The group expanded strongly, both by internal growth and by acquisitions, buying heavy engineering and primary industry firms in the 1940s and 1950s and then spinning off subsidiaries in the 1970s and beyond.

During the 1930s and 1940s, when the film industry spent thousands of dollars building stars and making movies on location, Northridge became a residential magnet for celebrities and horse lovers.

Agriculture, mostly citrus, corn, wheat, apricots, tomatoes and beans, was the main industry in Northridge until the early 1940s.

The creation of Kentucky Lake by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1940s brought tourism and industry to the county with resorts along the lake.

As a farm supply store and poultry production firm, Webb ’ s was influential, especially in the 1940s, in greatly expanding the local broiler industry, thus improving local farm incomes.

Much of Ukiah's early population was supported by the lumber boom of the late 1940s, with the logging of redwood being a major industry.

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.

Manufacturing in Mishawaka peaked in the 1940s and began a slow decline as the economic base shifted to retail services and small industry.

In the 1940s and 1950s, this industry helped pull Billings into a new era and became a lynchpin of the local economy.

The decrease in the population since the 1940s is attributable to the general economic malaise that descended upon the region when the steelmaking industry moved elsewhere.

The City of Alice was known for its large cattle industry until the discovery of oil and petroleum beneath Alice in the 1940s which caused a slight population boom.

Evidence of this industry can still be seen today as the giant smokestack of the Carnation Condensery, a factory which was destroyed by fire in the 1940s, still stands in the middle of what is today a grocery store parking lot at the intersection of Main Street and US Route 2.

A gravel industry that began in Carrollton in 1912 transformed the city, by the late 1940s, to a " grain and gravel " town.

His descendants remained heavily involved in the coal-mining industry until nationalisation in the 1940s.

In the late 1940s Columbia agreed to release animated shorts from United Productions of America ; these new shorts were more sophisticated than Columbia's older cartoons, and many won critical praise and industry awards.

In the early 1940s the JEDEC ( Joint Electron Devices Engineering Council ), an industry committee on standardization, developed a system of designating spectral responses.

His son Richard Fleischer, born in 1916, entered the film industry in the 1940s, and in retirement worked on merchandising Betty Boop.

By the 1940s, writing preferences had shifted towards stiffer nibs that could withstand the greater pressure required for writing through copy paper to create duplicate documents.

As the popular mode of transportation shifted from streetcar line to the automobile in the 1930s and 1940s, highways gave suburban residents access to the city.

In foreign policy he shifted from pro-Soviet in the 1940s to anti-Communist in the 1950s.

In the late 1940s, the company shifted away from automobile engines and into other markets, including marine diesels, fire pumps, and forklift trucks.

However, in the late 1940s the Nadars ' support shifted to Indian National Congress.

Though the West Branch still rises as a blackwater swamp in central Berkeley County, its main headwaters have been seamlessly shifted to Lake Moultrie by the 1940s vintage Tail Race Canal.

By the late 1940s, upheavals in mainland China — the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese Civil War, and the victory of the Communist Party of China — had shifted the centre of Chinese language filmmaking to Hong Kong.

However, beginning in the 1940s, the publication shifted its coverage to campus events.

“ In the 1930s and 1940s, when the overwhelming sentiment in Catholic Spain was pro-Franco, Escrivá ’ s silence was therefore often read to betoken a hidden liberalism ; by the 1960s and 1970s, when Catholic opinion had shifted, that same silence was interpreted as masking a pro-Franco conservatism ,” he writes.

Crest of the former Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich Council, used by Charlton briefly in late 1940s and early 50sCharlton have used a number of crests and badges during their history, although the current design has not been changed since 1968.

The 1990s is often considered the end of Modernity and the dawn of the current Postmodern age, even though the first traces of postmodernity takes place as far back as the 1940s.

In the early 1940s, in an attempt to reduce the memory disturbance and confusion associated with treatment, two modifications were introduced: the use of unilateral electrode placement and the replacement of sinusoidal current with brief pulse.

Although the comic started in the 1940s, it has changed over the years to stay current with the times, said writer and artist Dan Parent.

By the 1940s, Route 35 was designated onto its current alignment between Brielle and Belmar with the former alignment becoming a southern extension of Route 4N.

Among them are Leonard Bernstein ( in the 1950s ), Comedian Michael Ian Black, Daryl Hall ( of Hall & Oates ), Jascha Heifetz ( in the 1940s ), Charles Ives, Hope Lange, film director Barry Levinson ( a current resident ), rock singer Meat Loaf ( Marvin Lee Aday who was Joel Barlow High School softball coach while his daughters attended the school during the 1990s ), actress Jessica Tandy and her husband Hume Cronyn ( in the 1940s and 1950s ) and Mary Travers, of Peter, Paul and Mary.

WLW's superpower transmitter still exists at the station's suburban transmitter site, but it was decommissioned in the early 1940s and no current commercial broadcaster in the U. S. or Canada is authorized for such power levels.

The private resort community created by the Crane Company consisted primarily of summer homes, but the homes began to be winterized in the 1940s and the current membership of 2, 600 families are largely year-round residents.

Hiram House moved its operations from Cleveland to its current site at Harvard Road and State Route 91 in the 1940s.

Emphasizing fiction in the 1940s, it was subtitled The Four-Book Magazine since the first section had one novelette, six or eight short stories, two serials, six to eight articles and eight or nine special features, while the other three sections featured two novels and a digest of current non-fiction books.

A West Country schoolboy playground-rhyme current in the 1940s concerning the pasty went: In 1959 the English singer-songwriter Cyril Tawney wrote a nostalgic song called " The Oggie Man ".

In 1927, the current alignment of Route 79 was designated as a part of Route 4, which was to run from Cape May to the George Washington Bridge, with U. S. Route 9 additionally being designated along the route by the 1940s.

In the later 1930s, US 206 was designated to connect US 30 in Hammonton north to US 6 and US 209 in Milford ; the northern terminus was moved to its current location in the 1940s.

By the 1940s, U. S. Route 9 was moved off this road to follow its current alignment between Lakewood and South Amboy.

By the 1940s, U. S. Route 9 was moved off this portion of Route 35 to follow its current alignment along Route 4 between Lakewood and South Amboy.

Prior to the government housing that replaced much of the original housing beginning in the 1940s, Cabbagetown encompassed the current neighbourhoods of Moss Park, Regent Park, St. Jamestown and Trefann Court.

Wembley Central has the appearance of an underground station due to the elevated position of the High Road ( where the main entrance was until recently located behind a 1940s shopping arcade ) and the enclosed nature of the platforms below the raft upon which Station Square is built ; it is actually generally at or above the local ground level, having been reconstructed in its current form during the 1960s electrification of the West Coast Main Line.

The current facility was built in the 1940s, with the name of Arón Sáenz.

In 1943, the interior frontispiece art was updated to conform to current 1940s style.

The US version of the jerrycan is covered by military specification MIL-C-1283 and has been produced since the early 1940s by a number of US manufacturers, according to a current manufacturer, Blitz.

Additional construction during the 1940s and 1950s was completed and the base reached its current size around 1960.

Period-piece L. A. police detective stories ( set in the 1940s and 1950s ) returned — with a harder edge and a contemporary sensibility that references current issues — in Mulholland Falls ( 1996 ), and L. A.

The modern ETH-specifically the implicit linking of unidentified aircraft and lights in the sky to alien life-took root during the late 1940s and took its current form during the 1950s.

After World War II, during a short period of time, the town was called Rypin Lubuski, whereas since the late 1940s the current form has been used.