Despite the successful rehabilitation of over a half million disabled persons in the first eleven years after 1943, the existing program was still seen to be inadequate to cope with the nation's backlog of an estimated two million disabled.

In 1999 the series came first place in a BBC poll selecting the nation's favourite children's show.

The Araucanians ' valor inspired the Chileans to mythologize them as the nation's first national heroes, a status that did nothing, however, to elevate the wretched living standard of their descendants.

Banknotes are mostly paper, but Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation developed the world's first polymer currency in the 1980s that went into circulation on the nation's bicentenary in 1988.

On January 31, 1912, Hearst introduced the nation's first full daily comic page in his New York Evening Journal.

The Corps Network began during 1985, when the nation's first 24 Corps directors banded together to secure an advocate at the federal level and a repository of information on how best to start and manage a corps.

Hassan Gouled Aptidon, a Somali politician who had campaigned for a yes vote in the referendum of 1958, eventually wound up as the nation's first president ( 1977 – 1999 ).

In March 2008, Japan's Foreign Ministry appointed Doraemon as the nation's first " anime ambassador.

Later known as Elias Boudinot, he was editor of the Cherokee Phoenix, the nation's first newspaper, which was published in Cherokee and English.

Roosevelt was deeply committed to conserving natural resources, and is considered to be the nation's first conservation President.

He also established the first 51 Bird Reserves, four Game Preserves, and 150 National Forests, including Shoshone National Forest, the nation's first.

It was adopted in 1795 as the nation's first anthem.

The development of the banana industry contributed to the beginnings of organized labor movements in Honduras and to the first major strikes in the nation's history.

Charles Curtis, the nation's first Native American Vice President, was from the Kaw tribe in Kansas.

Iowa State is a leader in agriculture, engineering, extension, and home economics, and created the nation's first state veterinary medicine school in 1879.

The Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation concluded in 1888 between Japan and Mexico was the nation's first " equal " treaty with any country ; which overshadows Tokugawa Ieyasu's pre-Edo period initiatives which sought to establish official relations with the New Spain in Mexico.

* 1887 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

Over time, the club has become a symbol of the nation's culture and italianità (" Italianness "), due to their tradition of success, some of which have had a significant impact in Italian society, especially in the 1930s and the first postwar decade ; and the ideological politics and socio-economic origin of the club's sympathisers.

The nation's tourism industry was starting to pick up rapidly for the first time.

Overseeing the nation's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the first President of Ghana and the first Prime Minister of Ghana.

* 2010 – The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand ; 29 people are killed in the nation's worst mining disaster since 1914.

It was the most popular American book of its time ; by 1837 it had sold 15 million copies, and some 60 million by 1890 — reaching the majority of young students in the nation's first century.

In 1926, the government of South Africa designated Kruger National Park as the nation's first national park, although it was an expansion of the earlier Sabie Game Reserve established in 1898 by President Paul Kruger of the old South African Republic, after whom the park was named.

* The establishment of the nation's first on-campus research facility for ethanol fuel production by Paul Middaugh.

Roughly one-third of the students live on-campus and 85 percent of the student body are full-time students. The University is located in the town of Fort Valley in Peach County, the original site of the nation's peach industry.

And in such a scenario, which could yet emerge this year or next, ethanol will not be this nation's salvation.

But the presence of apparently extensive land is misleading because the nation's rugged, mountainous terrain restricts large-scale agricultural production to narrow strips on the coasts and to a few fertile valleys.

The Caroní is capable of producing as much hydroelectric power as any river in Latin America and has contributed significantly to the nation's electric power production.

Venezuelan oil minister Alí Rodríguez Araque's announcement in 1999 that his country would respect OPEC production quotas marked " a historic turnaround from the nation's traditional pro-US oil policy.

MOZAL, a large aluminum smelter that commenced production in mid-2000, has greatly expanded the nation's trade volume.

Its responsibilities include the nation's nuclear weapons program, nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy, energy conservation, energy-related research, radioactive waste disposal, and domestic energy production.

Energy projects on federally managed lands and offshore areas supply about 28 % of the nation's energy production.

Given that the state itself is the # 1 producer of raspberries in the country, with over 87. 8 % of the crop in 2002, this makes Whatcom County responsible for almost 75 % of the nation's raspberry production.

The large share of the Mouride's control over the groundnut production has placed them in the center of the nation's economy.

Mexico was a one-time major source for the nation's fire brick production, so much so, that it adopted the moniker " Fire Brick Capital of the World ".

Located in the nation's former industrial belt, the city's economy focused initially on iron manufacturing but later diversified to include steel and glass production.

When Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward ( 1958 – 1961 ) created an artificial famine, Mao publicly blamed the nation's food shortages on the greed of rich peasants, who were supposedly hiding China's huge surplus production from the government.

One of the nation's largest auto plants in terms of square feet, the Lordstown facility was home to production of the Chevrolet Impala, Vega, and Cavalier.

The Scheme provides approximately 2, 100 gigalitres of water a year to the Basin, providing additional water for an irrigated agriculture industry worth about $ 3 bn per annum., representing more than 40 % of the gross value of the nation's agricultural production.

In 1929, Sarnoff engineered the purchase of the Victor Talking Machine Company, the nation's largest manufacturer of records and phonographs, merging radio-phonograph production at Victor's large manufacturing facility in Camden, New Jersey.

However the depression continued in Jarrow until after the beginning of World War II in September 1939, when industrial production increased due to the nation's need for re-armament.

ARS is charged with extending the nation's scientific knowledge and solving agricultural problems through its four national program areas: nutrition, food safety and quality ; animal production and protection ; natural resources and sustainable agricultural systems ; and crop production and protection.

Between 1939 and 1944 ( the peak of wartime production ), the nation's output almost doubled.

Rajasthan produces the lion's share of India's production, accounting for over 80 % of the nation's total fenugreek output.

Growth of the nation's transportation infrastructure with internal improvements and a confluence of technological innovations before the Civil War facilitated an expansion in organization, coordination, and scale of industrial production.

California has long been one of the nation's most important oil-producing states, and the San Joaquin Valley has long since eclipsed the Los Angeles Basin as the state's primary oil production region.

In the last few decades, with an extensive network of all-weather roads constructed in this once isolated region, cattle and crop production have come to dominate the countryside and a thriving agricultural economy now exists which supplies much of the nation's corn, beans, and fruit and vegetable produce.