For almost twenty years, in the nineteen thirties and forties, Fred Allen had a radio show called "Allen's Alley."

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Jordan had recorded a song called "Caldonia" and other popular songs in the late nineteen forties and nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

In the nineteen forties, she was the first black woman to sign a long-term agreement with a major Hollywood movie studio.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

The famous Finnish American building designer, Eero Saarinen,designed the Gateway Arch during a national competition in the late nineteen forties.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

Most of the songs about this season were written in the nineteen thirties and forties by famous modern composers.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

As a result, they used the frogs in fast-acting, low-cost pregnancy tests for women during the nineteen-forties and fifties.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

In the nineteen forties the French artist Jean Dubuffet discovered Mister Wolfli's works and other artists like him.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

In the eighteen forties, iron ore was discovered in the Marquette Mountains in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

In the nineteen forties, Lena Horne was the first African-American in Hollywood to sign a long-term contract with a major movie studio.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

But this was not the kind of thing young women growing up in the nineteen forties usually did.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

In the nineteen forties, he began preparing students for the Scholastic Aptitude Test, now just called the SAT.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

Centuries later, a British doctor became an activist for better care for the dying in the nineteen forties.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

By the nineteen forties, "Grand Ole Opry" had become the most important country music radio show in America.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

Centuries later,a British doctor became an activist for better care for the dying in the nineteen forties.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

He brought attention to singers like Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger in the nineteen thirties and forties.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

They made many funny movies in the nineteen thirties and nineteen forties that are still popular today.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

He became an officer in the Army during America's war with Mexico in the late eighteen forties.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

The four band members continued to work together after leaving Dizzy's group in the late nineteen forties.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

He collected thousands of songs in the nineteen twenties, thirties and forties to save for future generations.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

In the nineteen forties and fifties, the publisher and songwriter equally shared income from record sales.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

In the nineteen thirties and nineteen forties, Louis B.Mayer was the most powerful businessman in Hollywood.

VOA: special.2009.05.31

In the middle of the eighteen forties, the United States offered to buy California from Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

In the nineteen-forties, Marjory Stoneman Douglas wrote a book called, "The Everglades: River of Grass."

VOA: special.2010.09.21

In the nineteen forties the wealthy John D.Rockefeller bought a great amount of land nearby.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

But the story began in the nineteen forties with the X series of experimental aircraft.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

During the nineteen-forties, several American scientists developed methods for making snow in other areas.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

During the nineteen thirties and forties in Havana, Celia heard many kinds of music.

VOA: special.2009.04.19