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1939 was a busy year, as he opened the 1939 New York World's Fair at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, opened New York Municipal Airport No. 2 in Queens ( later renamed Fiorello H. LaGuardia Field ), and had the city buy out the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, thus completing the public takeover of the subway system.
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Under the 1939 Code this item was permitted to survive a tax-free reorganization in the Stanton Brewery case, but only over the dissent of Judge Learned Hand, who wrote the majority opinion in the Sansome case, a leading case requiring carryover of earnings and profits in a non-taxable reorganization.
Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.
In 1950 it was combined with " War of Nerves " ( 1950 ), " Discord in Scarlet " ( 1939 ) and " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ) to form the novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle ( 1950 ).
It was successively renamed Annales d ' histoire sociale ( 1939 – 1942, 1945 ), Mélanges d ' histoire sociale ( 1942 – 1944 ), Annales.
A grant application to build a proof of concept prototype was submitted in March 1939 to the Agronomy department which was also interested in speeding up computation for economic and research analysis.
The ABC was built by Dr. Atanasoff and graduate student Clifford Berry in the basement of the physics building at Iowa State College during 1939 – 42.
The initial funds were released in September, and the 11-tube prototype was first demonstrated in October, 1939.
The Abadan Institute of Technology was established in Abadan in 1939.
The highest maximum temperature recorded in the ACT was 42. 8 ° C ( 109. 0 ° F ) at Acton on 11 January 1939.
Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for Oświęcim, the town by and around which the camps were located ; the name " Auschwitz " was made the official name again by the Germans after they invaded Poland in September 1939.
Weil was in Finland when World War II broke out ; he had been traveling in Scandinavia since April 1939.
In 1939 Grothendieck went to France and lived in various camps for displaced persons with his mother, first at the Camp de Rieucros, and subsequently lived for the remainder of the war in the village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, where he was sheltered and hidden in local boarding-houses or pensions.
With five national championships ( 1931, 1932, 1934, 1937, 1939 ), Ajax was the most successful Dutch team of the nineteen thirties.
Until 1939 iron ore was mined on the Braunenberg hill.
Alicante was the last city loyal to the Republican government to be occupied by dictator Franco's troops on 1 April 1939, and its harbour saw the last Republican government officials fleeing the country.
Nin left Paris in the late summer of 1939, when residents from overseas were urged to leave France due to the upcoming war and returned to New York City with Guiler ( who was, on his own wish, all but edited out of her diaries published in her lifetime and whose role in her life is therefore difficult to gauge ).
On 1 September 1939 this unit was one of the many that participated in the attack on Poland that started the war.
The Stadium was the scene Lou Gehrig's Farewell Speech in 1939, Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, Roger Maris ' record breaking 61st home run in 1961, and Reggie Jackson's 3 home runs to clinch Game 6 of the 1977 World Series.
He was also deeply influenced by Sapir's death in early 1939.
The rule was again adopted in 1939, only to be eliminated again in 1940, before being adopted for the last time in 1954.
The Beowulf manuscript was transcribed from an original by two scribes, one of whom wrote the first 1939 lines and a second who wrote the remainder, so the poem up to line 1939 is in one handwriting, whilst the rest of the poem is in another.
The city was a Republican stronghold during the Spanish Civil War, and the fall of the city on 26 January 1939 caused a mass exodus of civilians who fled to the French border.
The String Quartet No. 5 was composed in 1934, and the sixth and last string quartet in 1939.
1939 and busy
She had a busy official role from 1932 to 1939 and, following her husband's death, stood for Parliament herself, becoming Australia's first female Member of the House of Representatives, and later first woman in Cabinet, joining the Menzies Cabinet in 1951.
The drafting office only kept Tanaka busy for two years: he was drafted into the army in 1939 and sent to Manchuria, where he served as a clerk in the Morioka Cavalry.
In 1939 and subsequent years, demise of the signs was foreshadowed, as busy roadways approaching larger cities featured shortened versions of the slogans on one, two, or three signs — the exact count is not recorded.
" Kingsway South " does not enjoy popular usage owing to confusion with the South Kingsway, a busy street located east of the Humber River and extending south from Bloor Street. Advertising for Residential Development by Robert Home Smith & Co., 1939
By the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 it was a very busy residential area with good road connections to West Bromwich, Walsall and Birmingham.
The Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin is a Grade I-listed Anglo-Saxon and Norman church, separated from the centre of the village since 1939 by the busy A27 road.
1939 and year
1939, a major year for American cinema, brought such films as The Wizard of Oz and Gone with The Wind.
It has held the annual World Science Fiction Convention since 1939, along with many other events each year, and has created its own jargon, sometimes called " fanspeak ".
In 1939 Greenberg was voted to the All-Star Team for the third year in a row.
After the 1939 season ended, Greenberg was asked by general manager Jack Zeller to take a salary cut of $ 5, 000 ($ today ) as a result of his off year in power and run production.
In April 1939, when Ribbentrop announced at a secret meeting of the Foreign Office's senior staff that Germany was ending talks with the Poles and was instead going to destroy Poland in an operation late that year, the news was greeted joyfully by those present.
The historic drink can be served in an ice-frosted silver julep cup, but most Churchill Downs patrons sip theirs from souvenir glasses ( first offered in 1939 and available in revised form each year since ) printed with all previous Derby winners.
In 1939 the S-Bahn followed, its North-South Link between Unter den Linden and Yorckstraße opening in stages during the year, the Potsdamer Platz S-Bahn station itself opening on 15 April.
In July 1939, Forrest J. Ackerman gave nineteen year old Ray Bradbury the money to head to New York for the First World Science Fiction Convention in New York City, and funded Ray Bradbury's fanzine, titled Futuria Fantasia.
Worldcon, or more formally The World Science Fiction Convention, is a science fiction convention held each year since 1939 ( except for the years 1942 to 1945, during World War II ).
Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX ) was a common year starting on Sunday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar.
As 1939 wound down, Bill Paley announced that 1940 would " be the greatest year in the history of radio in the United States.
In 1936, he spent a year as a reporter in New Orleans before securing a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University's Merton College, from which he graduated in 1939.
On August 20, 1939, in Gdynia, Józef Ulam, along with his brother Szymon, put his two sons, Stanislaw and 17 year old Adam, on a ship headed for America.
In the face of energetic German attempts to Nazify the international body, Jung resigned from its presidency in 1939, the year the Second World War started.
After a period of alliance with France, Belgium tried to return to neutrality in the 1930s but by September 1939 war broke out in Europe and Germany invaded the Low Countries within the year.
In 1939 he enlisted in the army and the following year he volunteered for the Commandos.
Wright married Valencia Barnes Meadman, a modern-dance teacher of Russian Jewish ancestry, in 1939, but the two divorced a year later.
He was absent from screens for almost a year before returning to Twentieth Century-Fox and appearing as Henry M. Stanley in Stanley and Livingstone, his only film of 1939.
This was followed by the title role in Young Mr. Lincoln ( 1939 ), his first collaboration with director John Ford, and that year he played Frank James in Jesse James ( 1939 ).
Britain did this by issuing the 1939 white paper which officially allowed a further 75, 000 Jews to move over five years ( 10, 000 a year plus an additional 25, 000 ) which was to be followed by Arab majority independence.
Thus it was not until 1939 that the Music Department showed its first profitable year.
The Declaration of Christmas Peace has been a tradition in Finland from the Middle Ages every year, except in 1939 due to the Winter War.
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