And they were part of this very exciting groundbreaking work in the nineteen tens, twenties,thirties, into the forties and beyond, of showing the United States what it was,what it had in terms of grassroots cultural heritage.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

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

Since the nineteen forties, the traditional place for political speech by American unions and companies has been through political action committees.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

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

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

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

VOA: special.2010.03.15

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 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

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, 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

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

VOA: special.2009.11.18

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