The 1940s (pronounced "nineteen-forties" and commonly abbreviated as "the 40s" or "the Forties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1940, and ended on December 31, 1949.. Most of World War II took place in the first half of the decade, which had a profound effect on most countries and people in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere.The consequences of the war lingered …

Places United States. Hollywood District (disambiguation) Hollywood, Alabama, a town in Jackson County; Hollywood, Homewood, Alabama and Hollywood Historic District, a former town and a historic district; Hollywood, Florida, a coastal city in Broward County; Hollywood, Georgia, an unincorporated community in Habersham County, Georgia; Hollywood, Maryland

Title Director Cast Country Subgenre/Notes 1940: 20 Mule Team: Richard Thorpe: Wallace Beery, Anne Baxter, Leo Carrillo: United States: mining Western Adventures of Red Ryder: William Witney

This is a list of sovereign states in the 1940s, giving an overview of states around the world during the period between 1 January 1940 and 31 December 1949.It contains 106 entries, arranged alphabetically, with information on the status and recognition of their sovereignty.It includes 99 widely recognized sovereign states, six entities [which?] which were de facto …

Allis-Chalmers was a U.S. manufacturer of machinery for various industries.Its business lines included agricultural equipment, construction equipment, power generation and power transmission equipment, and machinery for use in industrial settings such as factories, flour mills, sawmills, textile mills, steel mills, refineries, mines, and ore mills.. The first Allis-Chalmers …

Fashion during the 1940s — clothing designed and/or popular in the 1940s. Also fashion designers and clothing companies active during the decade. The main articles for this category are 1930–1945 in Western fashion and 1945–1960 in Western fashion .

Out of the Past (billed in the United Kingdom as Build My Gallows High) is a 1947 film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas.The film was adapted by Daniel Mainwaring (using the pseudonym Geoffrey Homes) from his 1946 novel Build My Gallows High (also written as Homes), with uncredited revisions by Frank …

Pages in category "Films set in the 1940s" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 536 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

In the early 1940s in jazz, bebop emerged, led by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and others. It helped to shift jazz from danceable popular music towards a more challenging "musician's music." Differing greatly from swing, early bebop divorced itself from dance music, establishing itself more as an art form but lessening its potential popular and commercial value.

Gun Crazy (also known as Deadly Is the Female) is a 1950 American crime film noir starring Peggy Cummins and John Dall in a story about the crime-spree of a gun-toting husband and wife. It was directed by Joseph H. Lewis, and produced by Frank and Maurice King.. The screenplay by blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo—credited to Millard Kaufman because of the blacklist—and …

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The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). Since 1948, they have been funded out of general taxation. There are three systems which are referred to using the "NHS" name (NHS England, NHS Scotland and NHS Wales).Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland was created separately …

The show was broadcast for the first time on November 19, 1959, on the ABC television network under the title Rocky and His Friends twice a week, on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, following American Bandstand at 5:30 p.m. ET, where it was the highest-rated daytime network program. The show moved to the NBC network starting September 24, 1961, broadcast in …

A maquiladora (Spanish: [makilaˈðoɾa]), or maquila (IPA: ), is a company that allows factories to be largely duty free and tariff-free.These factories take raw materials and assemble, manufacture, or process them and export the finished product. These factories and systems are present throughout Latin America, including Mexico, Paraguay, Nicaragua, and El Salvador.