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 the 20th century, the town was a manufacturing center for vaults and safes, machine tools, cans for veggies, paper, paper making machinery, locomotives, frogs and switches for railroads, steam engines, diesel engines, foundry products, printing presses, automobile parts, war materiel, Liberty ship engines, gun lathes.

By combining the explosives from several mines and placing them in tin cans, the insurgents made them more powerful, but sometimes also easier to detect by Soviet sappers using mine detectors.

By 1943 Girl Scouts also collected fat in cans with Girl Scout labels to aid the war effort and sold War Bonds at no profit.

By the time the US entered World War II, cans had gained only about ten percent of the beverage container market.

By jumping and climbing trash cans, the fence, and clotheslines, the cat can enter various rooms through the open windows.

By 2007, Rockstar was one of the top three energy drink brands in North America, ( having enjoyed a 155 % growth in sales in 2004, reaching $ 48 million ) and had sold over a billion cans.

By 2001 it had acquired 60, 000 completed films of varying lengths and over 30, 000 cans of unedited film.

By 1941, the plant shipped a hundred million cans of soup, vegetables, and juices annually.

By contrast, in the 1780s Russian General Potemkin abhorred the tight uniforms and uncomfortable wigs and powdered coiffures worn by his soldiers and instigated a complete revision of both.

By 1927, he had developed a powdered soft drink mix called Kool-Ade, which he packaged in envelopes and sold in grocery stores.

By the end of the game, the ball would be dark with grass, mud, and tobacco juice, and it would be misshapen and lumpy from contact with the bat.

By the mid 1970s wildebeest and the Cape buffalo populations had recovered, and were increasingly cropping the grass, reducing the amount of fuel available for fires.

By the 19th century, only ten percent of this forest cover remained and the European settlers introduced several new exotic grass, lupin, pine and macrocarpa that gradually supplanted the native vegetation.

By the end of summer in 1872, eighty-five buildings had been constructed where just one year before there had been nothing but a field of prairie grass.

By the end of 1939 a grass airfield surface, internal roads, car parks and electrical power and lighting were set up.

By July 28, the wildfire, fueled by dry grass and winds, reached the edge of Chadron and the college campus.

By 1843 the Sweetwater River valley was a regular wagon trail providing the water, grass and fuel needed on the Oregon, California and Mormon Trails across Wyoming.

Because of these many flows into the bay, its large watershed covers portions of five Florida counties By 2010, measures of sea grass coverage, water clarity, and biodiversity had improved to levels last seen in the 1950s.

By employing a scorched earth strategy, they avoided battles, leaving " earth without grass " by burning the steppe in front of the advancing Persians ( Herodotus ).

By contrast, when feeding on Panicum grass, the drier outer leaves are left alone while they eat the tender, inner shoots and seeds.

By the time they showed up no-one wanted them, as you can't cut grass when it's covered with snow.

By 1881 Lartigue had built a 90 km monorail to transport esparto grass across the Algerian desert, with mules pulling trains of panniers that straddled the elevated rail.

By 1935, the grass runway surfaces had been replaced by murram.

* By the 2013 season, the " Rock M " and grass berm will be moved closer to the north endzone and the northern concourse will be expanded.

By torchlight, Poirot examines the grass outside the study window and finds no trace of footprints, even though it rained earlier in the evening and that means someone in the house is responsible.

By the beginning of the 1960s the school was still bordered with " scrub and swamp " to its north, " scrub and swamp " to its east, a dirt drain ( or creek ) to the south, plus a tangle of ti-trees, stunted growths, and blady grass across the road, to the west

By eating grass, individual grasshoppers deprive their fellow conspecifics of food.

By the summer of 1944 the airfield had evolved from a grass landing area with a few hangars to a four runway airfield with the infrastructure to house and operate three training squadrons using Barracuda torpedo bombers.