By 1933, the party had approximately 3. 5 million members but as a result of the Great Purge party membership was cut down to 1. 9 million by 1939.

By 1939 Nissan's operations had moved to Manchuria, then under Japanese occupation, where its founder and President, Yoshisuke Ayukawa, established the Manchurian Motor Company to manufacture military trucks.

By 1939 her marriage to Pollock was in difficulties, and she began a series of affairs.

By 1939 the population had grown to over 120, 000.

By the outbreak of World War II in autumn 1939, there were six camps housing some 27, 000 inmates.

By 1939 a breed standard had been established and dog shows had been held, but such activities stopped after World War II began.

By 1939, Italy had the highest percentage of state-owned enterprises after the Soviet Union.

By 1939 the Luftwaffe was not much better prepared than its enemies to conduct a strategic bombing campaign, with fatal results during the Battle of Britain.

By the summer of 1939, the Luftwaffe had nine Jagdgeschwader ( fighter wings ) mostly equipped with Messerschmitt Bf 109, four ' Zerstörergeschwader ( destroyer wings ) equipped with the Messerschmitt Bf 110 heavy fighter, 11 Kampfgeschwader ( bomber wings ) equipped with mainly the Heinkel He 111 and the Dornier Do 17Z, and four Sturzkampfgeschwader ( dive bomber wings ).

By 1939, with the exception of Stalin himself, none of the original Bolsheviks of the October Revolution of 1917 remained in the Party.

By early November 1939, Adolf Hitler had decided on forcing a decision in the West by invading Belgium, the Netherlands and France.

By the time production ceased in 1939, several thousand " frying pans " had been produced.

By the time the war began, the number of members rose to 250, 000, and the Waffen-SS was formed in August 1940, expanding the earlier armed SS troops who had fought in Poland and France in 1939 – 40, to serve alongside the Wehrmacht, Germany's regular armed forces.

By 1939 he had improved his theatre projection system to televise a boxing match on a screen by.

By 1939, the idiom was " that a half-dozen monkeys provided with typewriters would, in a few eternities, produce all the books in the British Museum.

By 1939 military expenditures by Britain and France far exceeded what Italy could afford.

By 1939, it took no more than a month by ship to travel from Marseille to Saigon and around five days by airplane from Paris to Saigon.

By 1939, industrial production had exceeded agricultural production in Taiwan.

By 1939 the station's short platforms had become unsuitable for the longer trains that had come to be used for mainline services.

By 1939, Franco owed these and other companies more than $ 100, 000, 000.

By 23 January 1939 the British government received information to the effect that Germany intended to invade the Netherlands in February 1939 with the aim of using Dutch air-fields to launch strategic bombing offensive intended to achieve a " knock-out " blow against Britain by razing British cities to the ground.

By 1939, 95 % of the coastal Chukchis were collectivized, but only 11 % of the reindeer nomads.

By 1939, at the beginning of World War II, he had finished 66.

By next spring I shall probably be ... quite alone "; and in Ninotchka ( 1939 ) emissaries from Russia ask her, " Do you want to be alone, comrade "?

By contrast, even experienced linguists commonly know no more of the range of possibilities in tone systems than the over-simple distinction between register and contour languages.

By December, 1958, when ' Abdallah Ibrahim became President of the Council, elections had even greater importance.

By 1926, when the mighty Yanks were at their mightiest, only a few of these were left but they still shone brightest, even beside able and agile rookies like Tony Lazzeri ( who managed never to have one of his epileptic fits on the field ), Mark Koenig, Lou Gehrig, George Pipgras, and gray-thatched Earl Combs.

By 1840 there were still only ten colonial bishops for the Church of England ; but even this small beginning greatly facilitated the growth of Anglicanism around the world.

By this consideration atomic physics provides the underlying theory in plasma physics and atmospheric physics, even though both deal with very large numbers of atoms.

By a probably euphonic inversion the translator of Irenaeus and the other Latin authors have Abraxas, which is found in the magical papyri, and even, though most sparingly, on engraved stones.

By painting the Roman-Christian relations in this light, Luke hopes to persuade Rome that Christians are not enemies of the government and should not be looked upon with suspicion or even fear.

* By intensifying the will-forces through exercises such as a chronologically reversed review of the day's events, the meditant can achieve a further stage of inner independence from sensory experience, leading to direct contact, and even union, with spiritual beings (" Intuition ") without loss of individual awareness.

By the 1930s boats built of all steel from frames to plating were seen replacing wooden boats in many industrial uses, even the fishing fleets.

By the end of 1971, 29 barricades were in place to prevent access to what was known as Free Derry, 16 of them impassable even to the British Army's one-ton armoured vehicles.

By turns, they smeared it with dirt, licorice, tobacco juice ; it was deliberately scuffed, sandpapered, scarred, cut, even spiked.

By contrast, a person who had been acquitted of a lesser offence could not be tried for an aggravated form even if new evidence became available.

By this time Vertov had been using his newsreel series as a pedestal to vilify dramatic fiction for several years ; he continued his criticisms even after the warm reception of Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin in 1925.

" By the later segments of Kino-Pravda, Vertov was experimenting heavily, looking to abandon what he considered film clichés ( and receiving criticism for it ); his experimentation was even more pronounced and dramatic by the time of Man with a Movie Camera, which was filmed in Ukraine.

By substituting these three verbs, even without clarifying morality ( ought, shall, should, must ) or the actor ( s ) who do or did something, becomes / remains / equals makes clear what time frame of relationship is asserted, and disallows assuming one stable past / present / future timeline-known as single scenario planning or blind linearity and considered a grave error in risk analysis.

By 1910, the French film companies were starting to make films as long as two, or even three reels, though most were still one reel long.

By the spring of 1794, forced collection of food was not sufficient to feed even Paris and the days of the Committee were numbered.

By 1798, the Council of Ancients had discussed the " inevitable " change from the problematic image of Hercules, and Hercules was eventually phased out in favor of an even more docile image.

By the mid-17th century fireworks were used for entertainment on an unprecedented scale in Europe, being popular even at resorts and public gardens.

" By 1980, Carangi began having violent temper tantrums, walking out of photo shoots, and even falling asleep in front of the camera.

By 1932, power had shifted to such an extent that the German President, Paul von Hindenburg, was able to dismiss a chancellor and select his own person for the job, even though the outgoing chancellor possessed the confidence of the Reichstag while the new chancellor did not.

By 1997, the federal government had already cut tariffs to 22. 5 percent from 57. 5 percent ten years earlier, and by 2000 were planning to reduce this even further down to 15 percent.

By the 18th century, the Kirk of Scotland no longer recognized marriages formed by mutual consent and subsequent sexual intercourse, even though the Scottish civil authorities did.

By the Tudor period, the Irish culture and language had regained most of the territory initially lost to the colonists: even in the Pale, ‘ all the common folk … for the most part are of Irish birth, Irish habit and of Irish language ’.

By June 1921, Collins ' assessment was that the IRA was within weeks, possibly even days, of collapse.