By 1944 its factories built a plane every five minutes while its shipyards launched 50 merchant ships a day and eight aircraft carriers a month.
By 1944, the American Cancer Society began to warn about possible ill effects of smoking, although it admitted that "no definite evidence exists" linking smoking and lung cancer.
This poster, produced in 1944 by the U.S. Navy's Industrial Incentive Division, was part of that effort.
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Planting the seeds for this ongoing investment was a letter written in November 1944 by president Franklin D.
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Anne Frank hid with her family in the "secret annex" of an Amsterdam house for two years before she was captured by Nazis in 1944.
The unit was founded in 1944 by neurologist Professor Sir Ludwig Guttmann to treat servicemen who had sustained spinal cord injuries in World War II.
During his convalescence, he was approached in January 1944 by Col.
The clock face, which uses a red second hand resembling a railway signal on a monochrome background, was designed for the SBB in 1944 by engineer and designer Hans Hilfiker while the rest of Europe was focusing on other matters.
Between 1932 and 1944, by contrast, the tax rate on top incomes rose from 25% to 94%.
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This vulnerability was nearly exploited by a pair of Nazi saboteurs in November 1944, but their plot was scuppered by an FBI manhunt.
Introducing free secondary education for all, the 1944 Education Act was by any standards a ground-breaking piece of legislation.
He went on to fight in the Warsaw Polish Uprising, a two-month battle against the Nazis in 1944, undertaken primarily by non-Jewish Poles.
In 1944, Rome was liberated by allied troops with the U.S. General Mark Clark leading the way into the city.
From 1944 to 1973 stability was supplied by the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates.
But he was still alive in late 1943 or early 1944, when he was interrogated by Adolf Eichmann in an attempt to determine if Grynszpan had acted alone when he shot vom Rath.
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Charles de Gaulle in 1941, but snuck back into occupied France on a spying mission in 1944, where he was arrested by the Gestapo and shipped off to the Nazis' Buchenwald concentration camp.
Yet the 1944 wooing of southern belle Sally Talley by an unlikely suitor includes all that and much more.
Who flies what where, how often and at what fare is all governed by a system of bilateral treaties set up in 1944.
The presidency of World Bank has been exclusive to the United States since it was founded in 1944 - and has never been held by a woman.
"We've always said that if someone is going to do 'Appalachian Spring' in black leather, it should be us, " said Ms. Eilber, referring to Graham's dramatic 1944 work of Americana set to music by Aaron Copland.
From 1944 to 1973, its price was pegged by the big central banks.
The bridge was captured by British and Canadian troops, who swooped into enemy territory by glider and parachute on D-Day - 6 June 1944.
When the Soviet army reached Majdanek in July 1944, they found much of it intact despite attempts by the Nazis to destroy the camp before retreating.
This guarantee was made by the Gold Reserve Act of 1934, and reaffirmed under the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement for the post World War II international monetary system.
In 1944, the monastery at Monte Cassino in Italy was bombed by Allied aircraft.
Both were bombed by Allied planes in the weeks before the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, O'Donnell said.
Then, disenchanted by embryonic cold-war politics, he switched his interest to the Balkans and in January 1944 parachuted into Serbia, from where he crossed into Bulgaria.
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