Though the number of people flowing in and out of our metropolitan areas each day has increased tremendously since World War 2,, total annual rail commutation dropped 124 million for 1947 to 1957.

The annual spring meeting has given an impetus in three main directions: more, deeper, and more timely political consultation within the alliance, the use of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( when ratified ) as a method of coordinating aid to the underdeveloped countries, and the need for strengthening conventional forces as well as the maintenance of the nuclear deterrent.

Martin, who has been in office in Washington, D. C., for 13 months spoke at the council's annual meeting at the Multnomah Hotel.

The committee for the annual Central City fashion show has been announced by Mrs. D. W. Moore, chairman.

For 10 years Sponsor has issued an annual survey of the size and characteristics of the Negro market and of successful techniques for reaching this market through radio.

At present the region is home to 14 million people and has 120 million annual visitors.

His successor President Barack Obama has expressed his desire to recognize the Armenian Genocide during the electoral campaigns, but after being elected, has not used the word genocide in his first annual April 24 speech in 2009.

Another Indian annual, A. hypochondriacus ( prince's feather ), has deeply veined lance-shaped leaves, purple on the under face, and deep crimson flowers densely packed on erect spikes.

Founded in 1920 by Crystal Eastman, Roger Baldwin and Walter Nelles, the ACLU has over 500, 000 members and has an annual budget over $ 100 million.

Argentine annual consumption of beef has averaged 100 kg ( 220 lbs ) per capita, approaching 180 kg ( 396 lbs ) per capita during the 19th century ; consumption averaged 67. 7 kg ( 149 lbs ) in 2007.

It is developing as an annual autumn event in his native town of Legnago where a theater has been renamed in his honor.

Due to the blocking presence of successive mountain ranges, the Interior of the province has a semi-arid climate with certain locations receiving less than 250 mm ( 10 ") in annual precipitation.

This fact, together with annual GDP growth of above 5 %, has brought the government indebtedness to 22. 8 % of GDP in 2006 from 67. 3 % five years earlier.

At the same time annual inflation in the economy was variable and during the last five years ( 2003 – 2007 ) has seen a low of 2. 3 % and high of 7. 3 %.

Also in the Twin Cities area, the local chapter of the Alliance Française has hosted an annual event for years at varying locations with a competition for the " Best Baguette of the Twin Cities.

:* St. Louis has annual festivals in both the Soulard neighborhood and the former French village of Carondelet, Missouri which include reenactments of the beheading of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, as well as reconstructed French fur trading posts.

* Narragansett Brewing Co. ( Providence, Rhode Island ) has been making a bock beer since the repeal of Prohibition in the 1930s, and celebrated the start of spring with annual Bock Beer festivals at the brewery until 1977.

Since 2011 the town has also been host to the annual Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival, which was founded to celebrate Chaplin's legacy and to showcase new comic talent.

Cameroon, has an average annual rainfall of.

The government has set targets of annual 5 % growth and 25 % inflation for 2000-2001.

A microthermal climate is one of low annual mean temperatures, generally between and which experiences short summers and has a potential evaporation between and.

The parish council, which has 15 members who are elected for four years, is responsible for local issues, including setting an annual precept ( local rate ) to cover the council ’ s operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny.

, a medieval festival commemorating local history has been held in the village once in every year since 2004, on a July weekend in the summer.

Aberdour has a very popular yearly festival, which runs from late July to early August and features musical events, shows, sporting events and children's events.

In modern Hinduism slaughter according to the rituals permitted in the Vedic scriptures has become less common, though, the world's largest animal sacrifice occurs at Gadhimai, a Hindu festival which takes place every 5 years.

:* Orlando has a boutique Bastille Day street festival that began in 2009 in the Audubon Park Garden District and involves champagne, wine, music, petanque, artists, and street performers.

He performs live DJ sets, occasionally comperes and curates the events, and has broadcast the radio show live from the festival location.

The style of Miyake Taiko has developed as a music for Gozu Tenno Sai — a traditional festival held on July in Miyake-jima since 1820.

The Gröbenbach, which has its source south of Puchheim, runs through town coming from the south and merges into the Amper river at several locations near the festival grounds.

For instance, the second word of the Arabic name of the festival, has the root F-Ṣ-Ḥ, which given the sound laws applicable to Arabic is cognate to Hebrew P-S-Ḥ, with " Ḥ " realized as in Modern Hebrew and in Arabic.

What began as a programme of marginal acts has become the largest arts festival in the world, with 1867 different shows being staged in 2006, in 261 venues.

It is the oldest continually operated experimental film festival in North America and has become one of the premiere film festivals for independent and, primarily, experimental filmmakers to showcase their work.

For a number of years this volunteer led festival has concentrated mostly around film but, starting in the Year of Highland Culture-Highland 2007, its scope was widened, and it dropped the ' film ' from its title.

Since 2010, the country has began hosting a street festival to encourage all generations and people from all walks of life to enjoy and encourage Malaysian street culture.

The Shaw Festival, an annual theater festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada began as an eight week run of Don Juan in Hell ( as the long third act dream sequence of Man And Superman is called when staged alone ) and Candida in 1962, and has grown into an annual festival with over 800 performances a year, dedicated to producing the works of Shaw and his contemporaries.

It has grown since its beginning in 1976 and now is the second largest festival held in the state of Kentucky.

It has served as the foundation for most music in South India, including folk music, festival music and has also extended its influence to film music in the past 100 – 150 years or so.

Incest appears in the commonly accepted version of the birth of Adonis, when his mother, Myrrha has sex with her father Cinyras during a festival, disguised as a prostitute.

It has been suggested that it was originally a pagan festival associated with the goddess Brighid and that it was Christianized as a festival of Saint Brighid, with whom she is said to share many traits.

This has led to some debate about both the timing and origins of the festival.

Marilyn Strauss founded the festival in 1993 and it has gone on ever since.

The annual " Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival ", which attracts top jazz stars nationwide and large out-of-town audiences, has been rated Kansas City's " best festival.

Von Trier has had a number of his films featured at the Cannes Film Festival over the course of his career, and each time has insisted on driving from Denmark to France for the festival and back.