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* 1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
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" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).
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* 1940 – Childe Wills, early associate of Henry Ford, one of the first employees of the Ford Motor Company, and a contributor to the design of the Model T ( b. 1878 )
In an autobiographical piece that Orwell sent to the editors of Twentieth Century Authors in 1940, he wrote: " The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence.
AT & T used the coaxial link to transmit the Republican national convention in June 1940 from Philadelphia to New York City, where it was televised to a few hundred receivers over the NBC station.
The platoon leader was 1st Lieutenant William T. Ryder, who made the first paratroop jump for the US Military on August 13, 1940 at Lawson Field, Fort Benning, GA from a B-18 Bomber.
* T. H. Harris, pioneer educator and state education superintendent from 1908 to 1940, was born in the Arizona community in Claiborne Parish in 1869, the son of a Baptist minister.
* T. H. Harris, state superintendent of education ( 1908 – 1940 ), educated at the former Homer College in the late 19th century
In the late 19th century Lisbon was the location of the former Lisbon Academy, attended for a brief time by T. H. Harris, state superintendent of education from 1908 to 1940.
The longest-serving sheriff of Concordia Parish was Eugene T. Campbell, who served from 1908 until his death in February 1940.
* T. H. Harris, state education superintendent from 1908 – 1940, was principal of St. Landry High School in Opelousas prior to 1900.
Named for Carolyn T. Douglas who was a teacher and principal in the Acton schools from 1940 to 1967.
By 1940, seeing that the Chinese Air Force had collapsed, because of ill-trained Chinese pilots and shortage of equipment, Chiang Kai-shek sent Chennault to the United States to meet with Dr. T. V. Soong in Washington DC, with the following directed purpose: to get as many fighter planes, bombers, and transports as possible, plus all the supplies needed to maintain them and the pilots to fly the aircraft.
How to obtain the shopping list of aircraft, aviation supplies, volunteers and funds for the Bank of China were discussed in a meeting held at the home of Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. Saturday afternoon, December 21, 1940, with Captain Chennault, Dr. T. V. Soong, and General Pang-Tsu Mow.
Santangelo and Levy opened a printing plant in Waterbury the following year, and in 1940 founded the T. W. O.
1940, Arthedain, then under Araval's son Araphant ( r. 1891 – 1964 ), formed an alliance with Gondor, but in the end neither Kingdom was able to provide military assistance to the other ; the Witch-king began to attack Arthedain even more vigorously, while Gondor barely survived a massive Wainrider invasion ( T. A.
This was called the “ vulnerable period ” by Wiggers and Wegria in 1940, who brought to attention the concept of the danger of premature ventricular beats occurring on a T wave.
* T. H. Harris, the Louisiana state education superintendent from 1908 – 1940, studied at NSU but received his bachelor's degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
A March 1940 meeting at the University of California at Berkeley concerning the planned 184-inch cyclotron ( seen on the blackboard ), from left to right: Ernest O. Lawrence, Arthur H. Compton, Vannevar Bush, James B. Conant, Karl T. Compton and Loomis
* E. T. Whittaker and G. N. Watson A Course of Modern Analysis, ( 1940, 1996 ) Cambridge University Press.
In 1940, Hispano-Suiza, together with the Spanish bank Banco Urquijo and a group of Spanish industrial companies, founded the ' Sociedad Ibérica de Automóviles de Turismo ' ( S. I. A. T .).
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