The 1940s saw Chaplin face a series of controversies, both in his work and his personal life, which changed his fortunes and severely affected his popularity in America.

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.

The 1930s and 1940s, which saw the rise of totalitarian states and the Second World War, are arguably the " Golden Age of Propaganda ".

The 1940s saw the increased use of blaring horns ( including saxophones ), shouted lyrics and boogie woogie beats in jazz based music.

The 1940s also saw the creation of the National Slingshot Association, headquartered in San Marino, California, which organised slingshot clubs and competitions nationwide.

The 1940s saw huge change in South Asia with the Partition of India in 1947 ( resulting in the establishment of the two new states of India and Pakistan ), and the establishment of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) in 1949.

The 1940s also saw the rise of Bogart.

The 1940s and 1950s saw " action " in the form of war and cowboy movies.

The 1896 Summer Olympics saw the birth of the modern marathon and the event led to the growth of road running competitions through annual events such as the Boston Marathon ( first held in 1897 ) and the Lake Biwa Marathon and Fukuoka Marathons, which were established in the 1940s.

The 1940s saw a rapid expansion of psychosurgery, in spite of the fact that it involved a significant risk of death and severe personality changes.

Up to the 1940s, they created more autogyros, including the A-7-3, the only armed one in the world that saw ( limited ) combat action.

It was first commercialized by the paint company Sherwin-Williams and saw use in the late 1940s.

Paved roads and utilities were brought to the area during the 1940s, which also saw the incorporation of Capitola to the east.

The area saw rapid growth through the 1930s and 1940s, and Roseville incorporated as a village in 1948 to accommodate.

The population saw further growth in the late 1940s and early 1950s due to the expansion of water lines and the development of low-income housing.

Moreover, Taylor was enraged by the decision of the Western powers, which he blamed on the U. S., to re-build and establish the West German state in the late 1940s, which Taylor saw as laying the foundations for a Fourth Reich that would one day plunge the world back into war.

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.

The Scottish Argyll company used its own, much simpler and efficient, single-sleeve system in its cars, a system which, after extensive development, saw substantial use in British aircraft engines of the 1940s, such as the Napier Sabre and Bristol Hercules and Centaurus, only to be supplanted by the jet engine.

The latter half of the 1940s saw Hobson in perhaps her two most memorable roles: as the adult Estella in David Lean's 1946 adaptation of Great Expectations, and as the refined and virtuous Edith D ' Ascoyne in the 1949 black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets.

Despite the disagreements between art critics, Abstract Expressionism marks a turning-point in the history of American art: the 1940s and 1950s saw international attention shift from European ( Parisian ) art, to American ( New York ) art.

Henry Ford had a inline-five engine developed in the late 1930s to early 1940s for a compact economy car design, which never saw production due to lack of demand for small cars in the United States.

Among the Surrealists, André Breton was a significant influence, but Isou was dissatisfied by what he saw as the stagnation and theoretical bankruptcy of the movement as it stood in the 1940s.

The 1940s saw an influx of new names because of the rise of Omdurman Radio and World War II.

The 1940s and 1950s saw average attendances for seasons regularly exceed 40, 000, coinciding with the club's peak on the field.

The 1940s saw a rise in shirtless shots of such handsome stars as Tyrone Power, Guy Madison, Sterling Hayden and Victor Mature ; and in the 1950s movie magazines began running swimsuit shots of actors such as Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter, Jeff Chandler, Robert Conrad and Robert Wagner almost as frequently as they would of actresses.

A poignant sense of nostalgia accompanied the recordings of several gospel and blues singers in the 1940s and 1950s who used the song to remember their grandparents, traditions, and family roots.

For several decades beginning in the 1940s, the largest producer of dynamite in the world was the Republic of South Africa.

DDT is the best-known of several chlorine-containing pesticides used in the 1940s and 1950s.

Arnaz appeared in several movies in the 1940s, notably Bataan ( 1943 ).

Kaye starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940s, and is well known for his roles in films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), On the Riviera ( 1951 ) co-starring Gene Tierney, Knock on Wood ( 1954 ), White Christmas ( 1954, in a role originally intended for Fred Astaire, then Donald O ' Connor ), The Court Jester ( 1956 ), and Merry Andrew ( 1958 ).

In the late 1940s several of his stories were published in magazines, but none of these.

She was introduced anonymously while still a teenager in the third book in the series and plays a larger role in several of the titles of the 1930s and 1940s.

Universal's horror cycle continued into the 1940s, these included The Wolf Man ( 1941 ), not the first werewolf film, but certainly the most influential, as well as a number of films uniting several of their monsters.

There are several conflicting views concerning the US availability of cough preparations containing ethylmorphine ( also called dionine or codethyline )— Feco Syrup and its equivalents were first marketed circa 1895 and still in common use in the 1940s and 1950s, and the main ingredient is treated like codeine under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.

He later used paint pouring as one of several techniques on canvases of the early 1940s, such as " Male and Female " and " Composition with Pouring I.

He also suppressed most of his substantial orchestral works of the late 1930s and the war years, either allowing them to remain unpublished or, in several cases, reworking them-or portions of them-into the series of numbered symphonies that he produced in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

After their initial struggles the Giants financial status stabilized, and they led the league in attendance several times in the 1930s and 1940s.

With the exception of several years in the late 1940s when Irna Phillips was in dispute with Procter & Gamble, Guiding Light was heard or seen nearly every weekday since it began, making it the longest story ever told in a broadcast medium.

The logo for the Mud Hens has undergone several updates, " Mortimer " Mud Hen was used in the 1940s and 1950s.

Speed, intended to be roughly comparable to words per minute, was the standard designation introduced by Western Union for a mechanical teleprinter data transmission rate using the 5-bit baudot code that was popular in the 1940s and for several decades thereafter.

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.

Wente Vineyards developed a Chardonnay clone that was used to introduce the grape variety in several Californian vineyards throughout the 1940s.

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

During the 1940s he developed several encoding schemes that were dramatic improvements on existing codes.

* Techniques known since the 1940s and used in military communication systems since the 1950s " spread " a radio signal over a wide frequency range several magnitudes higher than minimum requirement.

In the 1940s and early 1950s there were several films made about the exploits of Allied agents in occupied Europe, which could probably be considered as a sub-genre.

The Portuguese-ruled territory was introduced to several popular European and North American sports disciplines since the early urbanistic and economic booms of the 1920s and 1940s.

The event was briefly revived as the Salem Cherryland Festival for several years in the late 1940s.

In the 1940s he also worked as a graphic artist and produced black-and-white illustrations for several books and over one hundred original lithographs at the Mourlot Studios in Paris.

During the early 1940s, several of Davis's film choices were influenced by the war, such as Watch on the Rhine ( 1943 ), by Lillian Hellman, and Thank Your Lucky Stars ( 1943 ), a lighthearted all-star musical cavalcade, with each of the featured stars donating their fee to the Hollywood Canteen.