The business of baseball began to prosper along with other entertainments, and performers -- thanks partly to George Herman Ruth's spectacular efforts each season to run his salary higher and higher -- prospered too.

Student leaders began sporadic efforts to negotiate theater integration several months ago.

As Grant continued to wear down Lee's forces, efforts to discuss peace began.

Botany began with early human efforts to identify edible, medicinal and poisonous plants, making it one of the oldest branches of science.

Peace efforts began in Paris in 1989 under the State of Cambodia, culminating two years later in October 1991 in a comprehensive peace settlement.

It appears that copper was not widely exploited at first and that efforts in alloying it with tin and other metals began quite soon, making it difficult to distinguish the distinct Chalcolithic cultures from later periods.

However, it would not be until the early 1970s that courses began to crop up in various places in the Midwest and the East Coast ( some perhaps through Sappenfield's promotion efforts, others probably independently envisioned ).

After that first serious job in films, Capra then began focusing his efforts to finding similar openings in the film industry.

Isaac Singer, who made improvements to an existing model of a sewing machine in the 1850s, began one of the first franchising efforts in the United States, followed later by Coca-Cola, Western Union, etc.

Serious efforts to understand how proteins are encoded began after the structure of DNA was discovered by James Watson and Francis Crick, who used the experimental evidence of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin ( among others ).

The Taft Administration saw the huge Honduran debt, over $ 120 miilion, as a contributing factor to this instability and began efforts to refinance the largely British debt with provisions for a United States customs receivership or some similar arrangement.

20th century efforts to revive the harpsichord began with instruments that used piano technology, with heavy strings and metal frames.

Ismail Khan claims that these efforts began with a botched assassination attempt.

These cats were removed through efforts which began in the mid-1960s and lasted until 1990 when they were completely eradicated.

Despite Ribbentrop's best efforts, Matsuoka was sacked as Foreign Minister later in July 1941, and the Japanese-American talks began.

As a result, Christian armies began to devote their efforts to sacred purposes.

Modern Shinto began as the various ancient animistic traditional spirituality of Japan, which only became an institutionalized spirituality much later as a result of efforts to separate out influences of other religions brought into Japan from abroad.

Despite this, unions were formed and began to acquire political power, eventually resulting in a body of labour law that not only legalized organizing efforts, but codified the relationship between employers and those employees organized into unions.

Weber began his studies of the subject in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, in which he argued that the redefinition of the connection between work and piety in Protestantism and especially in ascetic Protestant denominations, particularly Calvinism, shifted human effort towards rational efforts aimed at achieving economic gain.

The efforts began in earnest again during the Renaissance, which saw a revival of the study of ancient Greek texts.

His efforts began to accrue debt as the Titans ' first two seasons were mediocre with attendance dropping in the team's second year.

Until recently electrical energy has not been converted and stored on a major scale, however new efforts to that effect began in the 21st century.

The taxonomy of the red wolf has been debated since before efforts began in 1973 to save it from extinction.

Formal efforts backed by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service began to save the red wolf from extinction in 1973 when a captive breeding program was established at the Point Defiance Zoological Gardens, Tacoma, Washington.

Since the 1980s, South Korea, now in possession of more modern military technology than in previous generations, has actively began shifting its defense industry's areas of interest more from its previously homeland defense-oriented militarization efforts, to the promotion of military equipments and technology as mainstream products of exportation to boost its international trade.

Domagk received the 1939 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his efforts.

Since the first pioneering efforts of Florey and Chain in 1939, the importance of antibiotics, including antibacterials, to medicine has led to intense research into producing antibacterials at large scales.

Thus, by 1939, both Church ( 1934 ) and Turing ( 1939 ), neither having knowledge of the other's efforts, had individually proposed that their " formal systems " should be definitions of " effective calculability "; neither framed their statements as theses.

First synthesized in 1874 by Othmar Zeidler, DDT's insecticidal properties were not discovered until 1939 by the Swiss scientist Paul Hermann Müller, who was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his efforts.

Ribbentrop's efforts were crowned with success with the signing of the Pact of Steel in May 1939, though this was accomplished only by falsely assuring Mussolini that there would be no war for the next three years.

During the summer of 1939, Ribbentrop sabotaged all efforts at a peaceful solution to the Danzig dispute, leading the American historian Gerhard Weinberg to comment that " perhaps Chamberlain's haggard appearance did him more credit than Ribbentrop's beaming smile " as the countdown to a war that would kill millions inexorably gathered pace.

In May 1939, as part of his efforts to bully Turkey into joining the Axis, Ribbentrop had arranged for the cancellation of the delivery of 60 heavy howitzers from the Škoda Works, which the Turks had paid for in advance.

In 1935, Patel underwent surgery for haemorrhoids, yet guided efforts against plague in Bardoli and again when a drought struck Gujarat in 1939.

By 1939, Allied efforts to avert war had failed, and Germany had signed alliances with both Italy ( Pact of Steel ) and the USSR ( Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact ).

In 1939 it was restored through the efforts of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers and a Parowan-sponsored WPA project.

The 1939 production was one of Twentieth Century Fox's more ambitious efforts, filmed in Technicolor ; the other two were low-budget affairs made by B-movie studios.

In March 1939, Chamberlain foresaw a possible disarmament conference between himself, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini and Joseph Stalin ; his home secretary, Samuel Hoare, said, " These five men, working together in Europe and blessed in their efforts by the President of the United States of America, might make themselves eternal benefactors of the human race.

Jack Herer (; June 18, 1939 – April 15, 2010 ), sometimes called the " Emperor of Hemp ", was an American cannabis activist and the author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes, a book which has been used in efforts to decriminalize cannabis.

Stricter regulations for these new protected areas began in 1939 from Bob Marshall's efforts.

Fred was the son of Sam's younger sister, Manya ( who, despite the best efforts of Sam and his brother Ben in 1939 and 1940, could not be extricated from the Warsaw Ghetto and perished in the Holocaust ).

In November 1939, during the Soviet Union's invasion of Finland, Russian efforts were frustrated following the destruction of two armored divisions by Finnish soldiers on skis.

When concerted efforts to build a reliable picture of British military strength did begin around 1939 – 1940, efforts were first made to infiltrate spies to Britain via Ireland, but these attempts consistently failed ( See Operation Lobster and Operation Seagull ).

Despite efforts to maintain some sort of French presence in Alexandretta, the Franco-Turkish talks were to end in June 1939, with the Turks being given total control over the disputed region.

On 23 March 1939, in another meeting with Lord Halifax, Bonnet mentioned that he had received a series of messages from François-Poncet, claiming that it would create a highly negative impression on Mussolini and would hamper efforts to detach him from his alignment with Germany if Britain and France aligned themselves with only the Soviet Union.

As the Second World War broke out in 1939, Thomas introduced the Pan-Malayan war tax scheme to fund for Britain's war efforts.

* With the rise of Hitler ’ s Nazi regime, JDC supported efforts that enabled 110, 000 Jews to leave Germany prior to 1939.

Albuquerque city leaders began to examine thepossibility of an air base locating on the mesa, and through extensive negotiations with the AAC, succeeded in their efforts when the Army established an air base on the East Mesa in 1939.