Prior to the increased industrialization and modernization following the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the consumption of meat or animal products was " strikingly low.

Prior to 1949 the fire protection for the valley was provided by the California Department of Forestry at the Avenue A station, which today is the office of County Service Area 63 in Yucaipa.

Prior to 1949, however, the Supreme Court did not constitute the court of last resort ; litigants could appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London.

Prior to 1949, most of the appointees to the Supreme Court of Canada owed their position to political patronage.

Prior to his work with the AEC, Dean was professor of criminal law at the University of Southern California ( 1946 – 1949 ).

Prior to the 1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering, today's Route 179 was composed of three state routes: Route S29, designated in 1949 from the New Hope-Lambertville Bridge into Lambertville, a part of Route 29 from Lambertville to Ringoes that was designated in 1927, and a concurrency of Routes 29 and 30 northeast from Ringoes that was also designated in 1927.

Prior to the 1949 game, the seating capacity was expanded to 36, 058, at which it remained until 1957.

Prior to its going on the air in 1949, its founder Louis Hill outlined his plans to a gathering of San Francisco artists and writers who met in Rexroth's apartment.

Prior to his election, he had served as Costa Rica's ambassador to the United States and as the country's representative to both the United Nations and the Organization of American States ( 1949 – 1950 ).

Prior to the House of Lords Act 1999 the power of the Lords had been diminished by the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 which stripped the Lords of the ability to block, or veto, adoption of most bills ; at most it could delay bills for one year.

Prior to the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, it was a major airline in the Republic of China.

Prior to the 1949 – 50 school year, the school was known as Deerfield-Shields High School.

Prior to 1949, zhezixi, short plays or plays made up of short scenes from longer plays, were often performed.

Prior to becoming the tenth province of Canada in 1949, Newfoundland ( then a separate British Dominion ) used the Forget-me-not as a symbol of remembrance of that nation's war dead.

Prior to this date, some developmental university radio projects had previously produced and aired programs on commercial radio stations, and CJRT-FM, a campus radio station of the instructional type, had been on air since 1949.

Prior to the formation of the Bundesliga, German football was played at an amateur level in a large number of sub-regional leagues until, in 1949, part-time ( semi -) professionalism was introduced and only five regional Oberligen ( Premier Leagues ) remained.

Prior to the 1949 game, the seating capacity was expanded to 36, 058, at which it remained until 1957.

Prior to the 1949 election, Hansford publicly rebuked two members of his caucus ( Wilbert Doneleyko and Beresford Richards ) who had condemned international negotiations for what became the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Prior to 1949 the area was a self governing Dominion ( Dominion of Newfoundland ).

Prior to 1 January 1949, Indians were British subjects under United Kingdom law.

Prior to 1949, Lushan was a frequent training and marshalling area for the nationalist Kuomintang army.

Prior to 1949, all poker games were cash games ; a player could cash out his chips and leave at any time.

Prior to 1949, the Beijing Legation Quarter was the center of diplomatic activity in the capital.

Prior to 1949, most railway bureaus ( under the direction of the Transport Ministry ) had a three-class structure.

Prior to the mid 1990s, WNV disease occurred only sporadically and was considered a minor risk for humans, until an outbreak in Algeria in 1994, with cases of WNV-caused encephalitis, and the first large outbreak in Romania in 1996, with a high number of cases with neuroinvasive disease.

Prior to widespread vaccination, mortality rates in individuals with smallpox were high — up to 35 % in some cases.

Prior to the Code of Canon Law of 1983, the Catholic Church expected in rare cases ( known as excommunication vitandi ) the faithful to shun an excommunicated member in secular matters.

Prior to its creation, cases brought to court were tried in The Dalles, county seat of the vast Wasco County.

Prior to this there had been no records of appeals to the Lords, and a committee had concluded that there was no precedent to give the Lords jurisdiction over equity matters, except when problems and cases were sent directly to Parliament ( as occasionally had been the case ).

Prior to this, the most serious cases were tried in the Court of appeal ( lagmannsrett ).

Prior to that, street vendors used to sell pretzels on street corners in wooden glass-enclosed cases.

Prior to the ruling, the legality of abortion was decided by each state ; it was illegal in 30 states and legal under certain cases in 20 states.

Prior to this, clerks had to personally work with each customer, and take merchandise from cases or shelves to hand to customers.

Prior to abolition the Privy Council heard up to twelve cases from New Zealand a year.

Prior to Loving v. Virginia, there were several cases on the subject of race-mixing.

Prior to this, the only means of escape from an incapacitated aircraft was to jump clear (" bail-out "), and in many cases this was difficult due to injury, the difficulty of egress from a confined space, g forces, the airflow past the aircraft, and other factors.

Prior to adopting red and, later, other color bullet tips, for tracers, US tracers were identified by blackened cartridge cases.

Prior to their First Change, Garou typically live amongst their kinfolk ; in most cases, non-metis Garou are raised unaware of their true nature.

Prior to Rosa Parks ' action, Claudette Colvin and Mary Louise Smith had refused to give up their seats on buses to white women, but their cases were rejected by civil rights lawyers as they were not considered sympathetic enough.

Prior to the enactment of the Hague Service Convention, service of process in civil cases was generally effected by a letter rogatory, a formal request from the court in the country where proceedings were initiated or underway to a court in another country where the defendant resided.

Prior to this, the stations usually used the on-air branding scheme of Thunder Bay Television and then the name of the network to which the channel was affiliated, except in cases when the channel was airing programming that wasn't from the network to which it was affiliated.

Its intended effect was to simplify the official pattern of where and when daylight saving time ( DST ) is applied within the U. S. Prior to this law, each state worked out its own scheme for the dates of beginning and ending DST, and in some cases, which parts of the state should use it.

Prior to The People's Court, popular TV courtroom shows such as Traffic Court ( 1957 ) and People's Court of Small Claims ( 1959 ) only presented recreated or fictional cases ( as did radio before that ).

Prior to that, Assistant United States Attorneys working out of Alaska could be expected to work on both types of cases.

Prior to the start of the Kern County child abuse cases, several local social workers had attended a training seminar that foregrounded satanic ritual abuse as a major element in child sexual abuse, and had used the now-debunked memoir Michelle Remembers as training material.

Prior to 2003, MSCA licensed software was distinguishable from non-MSCA licensed software in that the CDs were not holographic, did not require activation ( for those products which would have otherwise required activation ), and, in some cases, did not require a valid license key.