Sentences with phrase «world war years»

(The morality argument was effective during the World War years, when minimizing food waste was a big part of government propaganda campaigns.

Major European museums house almost no American art that pre-dates the ascent of American Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art in the post-Second World War years.

The north - west of England seems to have produced a host of oddball painters during the dreary post-second world war years; one thinks first and foremost of Salford's LS Lowry, a painter best known for his depictions of matchstick men in industrial districts, but whose less familiar late seascapes and almost perverse girlie fantasies are now recognised as far from provincial.

Run between the KwaZulu Natal cities of Durban and Pietermaritzburg, the first race started outside the Pietermaritzburg City Hall on 24 May 1921 with 34 runners and has been run every year since then with the exceptions of the 2nd World War years of 1941 — 1945.

Really interesting account of life in the post 2nd world war years in the east end of London.

Not exact matches

Disneyland Shanghai finally opened its gates after years of anticipation, and the Imagineering unit has already revealed glimpses at what park - goers can expect at the promised Star Wars lands coming to Disneyland in Southern California and Walt Disney World in Florida.

The world's largest retailer, for years slow to respond to Amazon.com (amzn) in the digital wars, has been on a tear in recent quarters, helped by the $ 3 billion acquisition of jet.com and overhaul of its marketplace last year, and by better integration of its stores with its digital business.

World War I, which ended 99 years ago on Saturday, took the lives of about 40 million people and is considered by many to be the first total, industrial wWar I, which ended 99 years ago on Saturday, took the lives of about 40 million people and is considered by many to be the first total, industrial warwar.

In a New York Times article last year, Perdue compared Trump to Winston Churchill, the former UK prime minister, saying that like the legendary World War II - era leader, Trump was «nobody's choir boy» and «a historic person of destiny at a time and place in America when we've got to make a right - hand turn here.»

One of the most important social trends since World War II is the percentage of working age women in the workforce, which has doubled in the last 50 years.

Still, to put things in perspective, the U.S. dollar didn't become a global reserve currency until after the Second World War, 150 years after it was created and three decades after the Federal Reserve was formed.

When the news broke the next day, soldiers and civilians around the world heralded Victory in Europe Day — the Soviet Union would mark Victory Day on May 9 — exuberant about the end of nearly six years of war that had destroyed much of Europe.

The pro-Kremlin Night Wolves are commemorating the Soviet advance during the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany 70 years ago in World War II.

Soldiers fighting in World War II were the first patients to receive the flu vaccine when it was approved for military use in 1945 and civilian use was approved the following year.

The report, distilled from a more detailed classified document submitted to Congress last year, warns that America's two authoritarian rivals are actively seeking to «co-opt or replace the free and open order that has enabled global security and prosperity in since World War II.»

WESTFIELD, N.J. (AP)-- A love letter lost in the walls of a New Jersey home has reached a World War II veteran 72 years after it was written.

As a result, almost 40 years later the entire world still freaks out when a new Star Wars come out.

Concessions made in the wake of World War II are «not so appropriate as we get here to this year.»

Seven years on, their collective real debt is the highest recorded since the 1830s — even higher than the peaks reached to finance the first and second World Wars.

Andrew Cherng: I was born in Yangzhou, China, two years after World War II ended.

Last year it was «Call of Duty: WWII,» as seen above — a throwback to the many previous «Call of Duty» games set during the events of World War II.

Airbus plans to assemble 40 - 50 of its single - aisle A-320 family every year beginning in 2018 from the plant, built on the site of a World War II bomber support base.

This «new meteorology», as it was sometimes called, became culturally pervasive in the years following World War I. Not only did it lift the metaphors of trench warfare and place them in the air (the «weather front» taking its name directly from the battle fronts of the war), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies opening, ever anew, onto different futurWar I. Not only did it lift the metaphors of trench warfare and place them in the air (the «weather front» taking its name directly from the battle fronts of the war), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies opening, ever anew, onto different futurwar), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies opening, ever anew, onto different futures.

The first was during the First World War and lasted five years.

There are any number of theories explaining the sudden drop in crude oil prices after two years of stability: America's increasing supply, the world's faltering demand, an undeclared price war being waged by Saudi Arabia, the rising U.S. dollar.

For instance, Kovel said, robot toys made in Japan after World War II took off in price for a few years, but then interest dropped off.

Prices for crude oil, the world economy's most essential commodity, will need until 2020 to recover from the price war unleashed last year by Saudi Arabia, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday in its annual outlook for the global energy market.

After World War II, which is the only example I know of, it wasn't until like 1950 where they let 10 - year bond rates go.

What started as a three month trip sparked an around - the - world tour that lasted five years, leading Asquith to visit Afghanistan during a war and travel by jeep into Somalia.

«I was just eight years old when my older brother Jesse was killed in World War II.

It's taken two years or more for a correction to occur just six other times since the Second World War, says Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist with S&P Capital IQ.

As the son of a World War II fighter pilot, I grew up an Air Force brat and went to air shows every year.

In the years following World War II, the United States dominated the global business world completely — it was the major source of capital, the home of advanced manufacturing, and the source of most major technological developmWorld War II, the United States dominated the global business world completely — it was the major source of capital, the home of advanced manufacturing, and the source of most major technological developmworld completely — it was the major source of capital, the home of advanced manufacturing, and the source of most major technological developments.

QUALITY has been a central part of organisational strategy for many years, dating back at least to Deming's work in Japan after the Second World War and is a central construct in a long - term research program being undertaken at the University of Western A

In the years before World War II, British economist John Maynard Keynes boldly predicted that by the time his grandchildren were grown, the average person would spend just 15 hours a week at work, thanks to technological innovations.

President Moon Jae - in met with Kim in the Demilitarized Zone in an event that was aired around the world last Friday, when the two leaders agreed to formally end the 68 - year - old Korean War and to work toward the «complete denuclearization» of the peninsula.

Senator Bernie Sanders, a sponsor of the resolution, said the United States, a major provider of weapons to Saudi Arabia and intelligence and logistical support to the Saudis in Yemen, should not be involved in the three - year - old war that has unleashed the worlds worst humanitarian crisis.

The pitfalls of this financial dynamic were not apparent in the early years after World War II, largely because economies emerged with their private sectors free of debt.

As a share of the economy, deficits are currently 3.1 percent of GDP and will reach 5.0 percent of GDP in 2027 and 9.0 percent of GDP within three decades — higher than any time except for 5 years during World War II and the Great Recession.

The apogee of Western democratic capitalism, according to Streeck and Rodrik, occurred in the thirty years following World War II.

Though we don't use the Coppock indicator in its popular form, the 29 signals in this measure since 1900 have been associated, on average, with market returns of 19.6 % over the following year, and only 3 yearly losses among those signals (one because of the entry into World War II, and the others because the signals were driven by the reversal of a very weakly negative reading, as was the case for the latest signal).

Economies emerged from World War II relatively free of debt, but the 60 - year global run - up has run its course.

«While we had an awful lot of up and down days, the percent change between the high for the year and the low for the year was the eighth narrowest since World War II,» Stovall said.

The only time this has happened in history for a three year period or more was during World War II, when we were obviously printing enough money to finance a lot of deficit spending on infrastructure and public programs.

Speakers this year include one gentleman who will explain why Hitler wasn't to blame for World War II, and another who'll describe how dusky, «low - IQ immigrants» are destroying Europe.

The job gain made the fourth quarter the best since 2010 and turned 2016 into a breakout year from some of the slowest hiring since World War II.

Interestingly enough, since World War II, this was the longest period it has taken an investor to recover their original investment in the stock market (5 years and 8 months to be exact).

This chart covers the crash of 1929, the Great Depression, two world wars, the dotcom bust and the latest recession, 128 years and counting.

Personnel departments had their heyday in years following the Second World War, when companies were all about fighting to find the best workers, signing them up for the long term, developing their capabilities and promoting from within.

Hayek's belief that the pre-Fed US system did not restrain credit creation firmly enough is understandable in light of the five financial panics during the fifty years of the federally regulated «National Banking system» that prevailed between the Civil War and the First World War.