Albert ( 1949 ) has concluded that the most active preparations of TSH made during this period, from 1931 to 1945, were probably about 100 to 300 times as potent as the starting material.

Two supplementary meetings were also held during this period: a Commonwealth Statesmen's meeting to discuss peace terms in April 1945, and a Commonwealth Economic Conference in 1952.

During the period of 1945 – 1950, the government adopted policies which were intended to consolidate power.

Amidst the devastation of the Stunde Null year of 1945 cinema attendance was unsurprisingly down to a fraction of its wartime heights, but already by the end of the decade it had reached levels that exceeded the pre-war period.

In the later war years Gainsborough Studios produced a series of critically derided but immensely popular period melodramas including The Man in Grey ( 1943 ) and The Wicked Lady ( 1945 ).

Among the most significant films produced during this period were David Lean's Brief Encounter ( 1945 ) and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's thrillers Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ).

As a consequence of the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 and the onset of the Cold War in 1947, the country was split between the two global blocs in the East and West, a period known as the division of Germany.

Suriname and Indonesia became independent of the Netherlands in the period of decolonization: Suriname in 1975 and Indonesia in 1945 ( it was not until 16 August 2005 that the Dutch government recognized 1945-and not 1949-as the country's year of independence ).

Their three sons, including actor Leslie Vincent, continued as the owners afterwards, except for the period of administration by the U. S. Navy during World War II ( 1940 – 1945 ).

Such processes continued to deepen throughout the early Shōwa period, when State Shinto became a main force of militarism, finally coming to an abrupt end in August 1945 when Japan lost the war in the Pacific.

The city expanded and the population grew during this period from just over 150, 000 in 1945 to almost 600, 000 in the early 1990s.

Leigh was well enough to resume acting in 1946, in a successful London production of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth ; but her films of this period, Caesar and Cleopatra ( 1945 ) and Anna Karenina ( 1948 ), were not great successes.

The library also has an extensive collection of underground political literature ( so-called drugi obieg or samizdat ) from Poland's period of Communist rule between 1945 and 1989.

During this period, his son, future ABC newsman, Jack Smith ( April 25, 1945 — April 7, 2004 ), was serving with the U. S. Army 7th Cavalry Regiment in South Vietnam and fought at the Battle of Ia Drang.

Transport in Albania had been rather undeveloped during the Communist period ( between 1945 and 1990 ), after which the country has had to make significant investment into transport infrastructure.

During the colonial period it was known as " Dutch Timor " and was a centre of Dutch loyalists during the Indonesian National Revolution ( 1945 – 1949 ).

After the Fall of France during World War II, the colony was administered by Vichy France and was under Japanese supervision until a brief period of full Japanese control between March and August of 1945.

During World War II, people who decided to stay and hide in the ruins of the German-occupied city of Warsaw for a period of three winter months, from October to January 1945, when they were rescued by the Red Army, were later called Robinson Crusoes of Warsaw.

It was one of the first four Soviet cities to be awarded the title of " Hero City " in 1945, though some of the Odessans had a more favourable view of the Romanian occupation, in contrast with the Soviet official view that the period was exclusively a time of hardship, deprivation, oppression and suffering – claims embodied in public monuments and disseminated through the media to this day.

* fourth protocol period from 1 July 1944, ( signed 17 April 1945 ), formally ended 12 May 1945 but deliveries continued for the duration of the war with Japan ( which the Soviet Union entered on the 8 August 1945 ) under the " Milepost " agreement until 2 September 1945 when Japan capitulated.

Following the Oct. 1945 Japanese surrender ceremonies in Taipei, the Republic of China, under the Kuomintang ( KMT ) became the governing polity on Taiwan during the period of military occupation.

This time, IBM submitted a candidate which was deemed acceptable — a cipher developed during the period 1973 – 1974 based on an earlier algorithm, Horst Feistel's Lucifer cipher.

Other rock fanzines of this period include Flash, 1972, edited by Mark Shipper, Eurock Magazine ( 1973 – 1993 ) edited by Archie Patterson and Bam Balam, written and published by Brian Hogg in East Lothian, Scotland, beginning in 1974, and in the mid-1970s, Back Door Man and denim delinquent.

In the period 1974 to 1978, an attempt was made to build a road between Rockstone and Kurupung to facilitate the construction of a large hydroelectric station.

In the early 1970s, Oakland won three World Series titles from 1972 – 1974, and after the A's left Kansas City under less than honorable terms, a strong rivalry existed between the two teams during this period.

In 1974, the NHL continued its expansion period by adding teams in Kansas City and Washington, D. C.

Like most of Portuguese Angola, the cosmopolitan city of Luanda was not affected by the Portuguese Colonial War ( 1961 – 1974 ); economic growth and development in the entire region reached record highs during this period.

Over the period from 1961 to 1974, the university campus relocated from the centre of the city to its much larger current site in the suburb of Ilam.

Tilburg-Noord is built in the period 1966 – 1974.

During this period, one of his high-profile film roles was as Agatha Christie's Belgian master detective Hercule Poirot in the 1974 film Murder On The Orient Express.

From the late stages of this notable period of high growth and huge development effort started in the 1950s, was the construction of Cahora Bassa dam by the Portuguese, which started to fill in December 1974 after construction was commenced in 1969.

Films he made during this period included Bluebeard ( 1972 ), Hammersmith Is Out ( 1972 ), The Klansman ( 1974 ), and Exorcist II: The Heretic ( 1977 ).

How much of this was due to his intake of alcohol is impossible to ascertain, according to Bragg, because of Burton's reluctance to be treated for alcohol addiction ; however, in 1974, Burton spent six weeks in a clinic to recuperate from a period during which he had been drinking three bottles of vodka a day.

In 1974, after a period as Information Minister, he was appointed Minister of Defense in the Yitzhak Rabin government, having been Rabin's chief rival for the post of Prime Minister after Golda Meir resigned in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War.

His second term in office began in 1974, when a period of economic crisis was beginning to hit most Western countries ( see 1973 oil crisis, Stagflation, Eurosclerosis ).

* In 1974, during the four-month period between Gerald Ford's succession to the Presidency and the confirmation of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller.

After the conturbed transition period between 1974 and 1975, Portugal became a democratic state.

From the late stages of this notable period of high growth and huge development effort started in the 1950s, was the construction of Cahora Bassa dam by the Portuguese, which started to fill in December 1974 after construction was commenced in 1969.

Shepard served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from November 1963 – July 1969 ( approximately the period of his grounding ), and from June 1971 – August 1, 1974 ( from his last flight, to his retirement ).

The club's glory period of 1974 – 78 featured two consecutive promotions.

In 1975, the WFL changed its overtime to the 15-minute sudden-death period, which the NFL adopted in 1974 and still uses today.

In 1974, the NHL ended its first expansion period by adding teams in Kansas City, Missouri and Washington, D. C.

" They attacked Warren using official FBI statistics that showed violent crime and homicide rates shooting up nationwide ; in New York City, for example, after steady to declining trends until the early 1960s, the homicide rate doubled in the period from 1964-74 from just under 5 per 100, 000 at the beginning of that period to just under 10 per 100, 000 in 1974.

After winning four terms to the Massachusetts House of Representatives between 1962 and 1970 ( and winning the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor in 1970 ), Dukakis was elected governor in 1974, defeating the incumbent Republican Francis Sargent during a period of fiscal crisis.