By September 1940 the Suite had developed into a collection of six songs, `` four spirituals, a dream, and a lullaby ''.

By 1940 the Third Reich had occupied many of the Alpine countries.

By the end of 1940 all of the Indian cavalry had been mechanised, receiving light tanks, armoured cars or 15cwt trucks.

By 1940 the CCC was no longer wholly a relief agency, rapidly losing its non-military character, and becoming a system for work-training as its ranks had become increasingly younger, with life-inexperienced enrollees.

By the late 1930s and the 1940s, Italian Fascism completely denounced capitalism as an obsolete and oppressive system, Mussolini in 1940 at the entry of Italy into World War II, said:

By the summer of 1940 Belgium had fallen to Germany along with most of Western Continental Europe.

By 1940, the institute had outgrown itself as more than just a small institute and was virtually functioning as an independent university.

By 1970, the city had a total area of approximately, more than five times its size in 1940.

By the end of 1940 the Luftwaffe had suffered heavy losses and needed to regroup.

By August 1940, the War Office produced training instructions for the creation and use of Molotov cocktails.

By 1940, the Navy had ordered seven more aircraft carriers and four cruisers.

By autumn 1940, after conquering its portion of Poland, the Third Reich shared an extensive border with USSR, with whom it remained neutrally bound by their non-aggression pact and trade agreements.

By 1940, Stalin began to relent, restoring approximately one-third of previously dismissed officers to duty.

By late 1940, German armies had swept through most of Western Europe.

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 1940, the Villaggio Duca degli Abruzzi ( Jowhar ) had a population of 12, 000 people, of whom nearly 3, 000 were Italian Somalians, and enjoyed a notable level of development with a small manufacturing area with agricultural industries ( sugar mills, etc.

By 1940 Schipol had four asphalt runways at 45-degree angles, all 1020 meters or less.

By February 1945, 73 % of children received milk in school, compared with 50 % in July 1940.

By 1945, roughly 33 % of all children ate at school compared with one in thirty in 1940, while those taking milk increased from about 50 % to roughly 75 %.

By 1940 Germany had threatened to break of diplomatic relations with Uruguay.

By 1940 multisection tubes had become commonplace.

Other estimates of Austro-Hungarian casualties are as follows: By Austrian Ministry of Defense in 1938: Military dead 1, 016, 200 By UK War Office in 1922: Dead 1, 200, 00 By US War Dept in 1924: 1, 200, 00 killed and died A study published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1940 estimated civilian 467, 000 deaths " attributable to war ", the primary cause being famine.

By 1940, only 3200 farmers had arrived to Ethiopia, less than ten percent of the Fascist regime's goal.

By December 1981, however, the U. S. had already begun to support armed opponents of the Sandinista regime.

By the 1530s, cimarrón bands had become so numerous that in rural areas the Spaniards could only safely travel outside their plantations in large armed groups.

By contrast, Ahmad Jibril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command ( PFLP-GC ), which split away from Habash's organization in 1968, wanted to focus more on the tactical implementation of armed struggle.

By the time of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, TBDs were " large, swift, and powerfully armed torpedo boats designed to destroy other torpedo boats.

By the late 1970s, the EPLF had become the dominant armed Eritrean group fighting against the Ethiopian Government, and Isaias Afewerki had emerged as its leader.

By World War II, most fighters were all-metal monoplanes armed with batteries of machine guns or cannons and some were capable of speeds approaching 400 mph.

By contrast with hoplites, other contemporary infantry ( e. g. Persian ) tended to wear relatively light armour, use wicker shields, and were armed with shorter spears, javelins, and bows.

By 1938, however, the oppression had become so extensive that it was damaging the infrastructure, economy and even the armed forces of the Soviet state, prompting Stalin to wind the purge down.

By the end of World War II, the Soviet Union had fielded the largest number of submachine guns, such as the PPSh-41, with whole infantry battalions being armed with little else.

By 10 P. M., about 1, 500 white men, some of whom were armed, gathered at the intersection of Sixth and Boulder, adjacent to the courthouse.

By the time the war ended, $ 20 million in war bonds were purchased through the studio, the Red Cross collected 5, 200 pints of plasma from studio employees, and 763 of the studio's employees served in the armed forces, including Harry Warner's son-in-law Milton Sperling and Jack's son Jack Warner Jr.

By the 1770s, the Green Mountain Boys had become an armed military force and de facto government that prevented New York from exercising its authority in the northeast portion of the Province of New York.

By the late 16th century, the Mongols proved to be successful armed protectors of the Yellow Hat Dalai Lama after their increasing presence in the Amdo region, culminating in Güshi Khan's ( 1582 – 1655 ) conquest of Tibet in 1642.

By 1821, when armed hostilities broke out with their Hudson's Bay Company rivals, the North West Company was pressured by the British government to merge with the Hudson's Bay Company.

By then all were fully armed with captured Union weapons.

By far the most destructive method is to weld the weapon shut by inserting one or more armed thermite grenades into the breech and then quickly closing it.

By noon that day, Ike, drinking again and armed, told others he was looking for Holliday or an Earp.

By the instructions of Athena, he sowed the dragon's teeth in the ground, from which there sprang a race of fierce armed men, called the Spartoí (" sown ").

By late 1943, the label was back in business recording musicians and supplying records to the armed forces.

By 1935, Long's most recent consolidation of personal power led to talk of armed opposition from his enemies.

By a series of negotiations, Vergennes sought to secure the armed neutrality of the Northern European states, which was eventually achieved by Catherine II of Russia.

By the time the United States entered World War II, Skeezix was a fully-grown adult, courting girls and serving in the armed forces.