From the mid-1940s the country was subject to Soviet economic control and saw considerable Russification of its peoples, but Latvian culture and infrastructures survived such that, during the period of Soviet liberalisation under Mikhail Gorbachev, Latvia once again took a path towards independence which eventually succeeded in August 1991 and was recognised by Russia the following month.

The production run was stretched somewhat by World War II — the Model 28 was scheduled to replace the Model 15 in the mid-1940s, but Teletype built so many factories to produce the Model 15 during World War II, it was more economical to continue mass production of the Model 15.

He founded his own church in California in the mid-1940s, and he had a daily radio broadcast in California during the 1950s and 1960s.

A timber mill and the town of Shannon were established in the mid-1940s as a result of a timber shortage during World War II.

Per capita use of fresh-market spinach averaged 1 kg during 2004 – 06, the highest since the mid-1940s.

Douglas Browning was the announcer during the mid-1940s.

Paul was a Middleweight who was a main event attraction in Northern California during the mid-1940s, primarily in Oakland.

He is mainly remembered for helping to introduce " welfare state " policies to Canada, by persuading the Canadian government to introduce an Old Age Security programme, and child benefits during the mid-1940s.

After an upsurge of support for the party in the mid-1940s, the party embarked on a long decline during the Cold War.

For Walters, the reports received by the allied intelligence services during the mid-1940s suggest that the appellation " ODESSA " was " little more than a catch-all term use by former Nazis who wished to continue the fight.

While not convinced that her husband was in a current sexual relationship with Ford, Sharon Lee Willing, alleges her husband and Ford had a sexual relationship during their time together on The Hollywood Barn Dance in the mid-1940s ; that Ford had a proprietary interest in her husband, often phoning him in the middle of the night ; and that her husband recommended his own attorney to Ford to handle her divorce, but that the lawyer eventually resigned as Ford was always drunk, often obstinate, indecisive and forgetful about details in their meetings.

Besch was born in Vienna, Austria, the daughter of theater actress Gusti Huber, who starred in German films during World War II and left Austria in the mid-1940s.

During the mid-1940s he and M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar were arrested for suspicion of murder famously known during that time as Lakshmikanthan Kolai Vazhakku ( Lakshmikanthan Murder Case ), both were convicted and later released on appeal to the Privy Council.

She began her acting career in radio drama in 1935, while still in her 20s, and became a mainstay of soap operas during this period, appearing on Arnold Grimm's Daughter ( as the titular daughter Constance in 1938 ), Road of Life ( as Nurse Helen Gowan ), and the radio version of The Guiding Light, as Charlotte Wilson in the mid-1940s.

The circulation of Captain Marvel Adventures continued to soar until it outsold Superman during the mid-1940s.

The club saw similar results during the mid-1940s as well, with two championship final appearances ; defeating SU Agen in the 1943 final at Parc des Princes in Paris and losing the 1944 season final to Perpignan.

The Mad Gasser of Mattoon ( also known as the " Anesthetic Prowler ", the " Mad Anesthetist ", the " Phantom Anesthetist ", the " Mad Gasser of Roanoke ", or simply the " Mad Gasser ") was the name given to the person or people believed to be responsible for a series of apparent gas attacks that occurred in Botetourt County, Virginia, during the early 1930s, and in Mattoon, Illinois, during the mid-1940s.

In the mid-1940s, together with C. Wright Mills, he contributed to Politics, the journal edited during the 1940s by Dwight Macdonald.

The mid-1940s was a lull in Groucho Marx's career.

Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist from the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943.

It was directed by Sam Peckinpah and co-starred Joel McCrea, an actor who had a screen image similar to Scott's and who also from the mid-1940s on devoted his career almost exclusively to Westerns.

The next important event in her entertainment career was a role in In Society with Abbott and Costello in the mid-1940s.

Beck had a prolific career in animation, becoming one of the regular voice actors at Famous Studios in the mid-1940s.

He began his professional career in the mid-1940s as a freelance photographer, working frequently for the publisher Åhlen & Åkerlund of Stockholm.

Her career began to fade by the mid-1940s.

Talk radio as a listener-participation format has existed since at least the mid-1940s.

In the mid-1940s radio observations revealed a radio corona around the Sun.

Most familiar today is the television opening, which copied the radio opening from 1945 onward ( save for ".. and the American Way " line, which was an even later addition ) but the most oft heard radio opening through the mid-1940s was:

In the mid-1940s Hull returned to radio announcing, appearing with frequency on such programs as The Hit Parade and Vox Pop.

Burrows also wrote for Danny Kaye's short-lived mid-1940s radio comedy show, helping head writer Goodman Ace fashion material for Kaye and co-stars Eve Arden and Lionel Stander.

Three examples, William argues, show how the UAW use of working class nationalism functioned as a counter subversive tradition within American liberalism: the UAW campaign at the Ford plant in Dearborn, Michigan, in the late 1930s, the 1942 conflict in Detroit over the black occupancy of the Sojourner Truth housing project, and the responses of the UAW under the conservative leadership of Reuther to the demands of black workers for representation in UAW leadership between the mid-1940s and the 1960s.

The Katherine Dunham Company toured throughout North America in the mid-1940s, even performing in the then-segregated South, where Dunham once refused to hold a show after finding out that the city's black residents had not been allowed to buy tickets for the performance.

The station is also symbolic as being one of the last in Moscow to be fully built to the stalinist style which dominated the Metro Architecture since the mid-1940s, afterwards the station designs show evidence of more vivid decorations that were meant to be installed yet designs were simplified ( examples include the station VDNKh and Alexeyevskaya ).

Wrangler Jeans were first made by Blue Bell, who acquired the brand when they took over Casey Jones in the mid-1940s.

I Love to Singa was reissued with " Blue Ribbon " opening titles in the mid-1940s ; it was this version that was released to VHS in the 1980s.

Walt Disney had long wanted to make a film based on the Uncle Remus storybook, but it wasn't until the mid-1940s that he had found a way to give the stories an adequate film equivalent, in scope and fidelity.

While lauded for her achievements, Davis and her films were sometimes derided ; Pauline Kael described Now, Voyager ( 1942 ) as a " shlock classic ", and by the mid-1940s her sometimes mannered and histrionic performances had become the subject of caricature.

By the mid-1940s, it had become an extremely popular name for newborn American girls, remaining a top 10 name for most of the decade, peaking at # 8 in both 1943 and 1945.

By the mid-1940s the community had 150 to 200 residents, but began to decline after the end of World War II.

For this series, Woody's appearance was redesigned to look more like his mid-1940s look instead of the classic look he had sported for years afterward.

Princess Antoinette had a long-term liaison with Alexandre-Athenase Noghès, a Monegasque-born attorney and international tennis champion, in the mid-1940s.

Many of Slim's recordings and performances until the mid-1940s were with guitarist and singer Broonzy, who had recruited Slim to be his piano player after Joshua Altheimer's death in 1940.

By the mid-1940s, the cigar store had been replaced with a Walgreens drug store.

The village had two mosques, and an elementary school, founded after 1938, which had an enrollment of 120 students in the mid-1940s.

Catholic missionaries, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, who passed by in those years set up a small mission on one of Savage Islands, but never had great success and withdrew, when the activities of Hudson's Bay Company ended by mid-1940s and the Inuit had migrated into communities.

At its height in the mid-1940s, the party had fourteen sitting elected officials at the federal, provincial and municipal level.

He often played eccentric, insane or diabolical characters, especially in the horror genre with which he had become identified as a " star " by the mid-1940s.

From the mid-1940s Republic films often featured Vera Hruba Ralston, a former ice-skater from Czechoslovakia who had won the heart of studio boss Yates, becoming the second Mrs. Yates in 1949.

In the mid-1940s while still at Maryland, Mills had begun contributing ' journalistic sociology ' and opinion pieces to intellectual journals such as The New Republic, The New Leader, and Politics, the journal established by Mills friend Dwight Macdonald in 1944.

By the mid-1940s, the series had developed a quicker, more energetic ( and violent ) tone, due to the inspiration from the work of their colleague in the MGM cartoon studio, Tex Avery, who joined the studio in 1942.

( By the mid-1940s, deer were so numerous in the area that crop farmers had to patrol their fields by night.