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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.
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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 and seeing
By now Curt was seeing clearly again.
By the time he was under the covers he had forgotten about seeing Kate.
When they came to Mr. Jack's photograph, twenty by twelve inches in a curly silver frame, Miss Ada said, `` By rights I ought to leave that, seeing he won't take my clotheshorse ''.
By seeing such varied places, both interesting and beautiful, you will become aware of the many different civilizations Rome has lived through, and in particular, get a feel of Renaissance Rome.
By the time of the French Revolution some, such as the Enragés, began to use the term positively, in opposition to Jacobin centralisation of power, seeing " revolutionary government " as oxymoronic.
By 1970, Agnew was limited to seeing the president only during cabinet meetings or in the occasional and brief one-on-one, with Agnew given no opportunity to discuss much of anything of substance.
By all means it is worth seeing.
Having reached the top of Nittany Mountain, and ".... seeing the prairies and noble forest beneath him, cried out to his attendant, ' By heavens, Thompson, I have discovered an empire!
* By being one of the first historians to present Hitler as an ordinary human being rather than as a " madman ", Taylor helped to open the door to seeing Hitler as a human being, albeit one who held morally repellent beliefs.
By sacrificing the exchange ' just like that ', for certain long term advantages, in positions with disrupted material balance, he discovered latent resources that few were capable of seeing and properly evaluating.
By projecting the two films simultaneously, viewers experience seeing a 3D image on a 2D screen.
By this time one of the leaders of the rebellion, Alemdar Mustafa Pasha arrived with his armed men and upon seeing the dead body of Selim III proclaimed Mahmud as padishah.
Neuronal activity related to the act of seeing lasts for more than 100 ms. A fast reaction, such as swerving to avoid a car crash, takes around 200 ms. By about half-a-second, awareness and reflection of the incident sets in.
By October he realized that the creation of an air force was inevitable and, seeing that he was the obvious candidate to become the new Chief of the Air Staff, he attempted to bring about a scheme whereby he would retain control of the flying units on the Western Front.
By 1960, seeing how well the two Steve Reeves Hercules films were doing at the box office, Italian producers decided to revive the 1920s silent film character Maciste in a new series of color / sound films.
By physically seeing the marsh, people are more likely to take notice and be more aware of the environment around them.
By the time the ball reached Paige, Bell was almost to second and rounded the bag, seeing the third baseman had broken towards home to field the bunt.
By decoupling eye convergence from focusing operations, a viewer is able to trick the brain into seeing a 3D scene.
By the mid 1960s the airport commenced seeing its first domestic pure jet engine aircraft, commencing with a Boeing 727 in 1964, and the Douglas DC-9 in 1967, both types operated by TAA and Ansett ANA.
By seeing themselves as protected by the power of others, they do not have to feel the anxiety attached to their own helplessness and impotence.
By 2000 the Century Black label was discontinued, seeing as more than a few bands under that label either moved on to other labels, changed their musical direction, or became part of the actual " Century Family ".
By that time, historian Lucian Boia notes, he was seeing Europe as a community of nations, and, " in his own way ", was rejecting isolationism or " primitive " xenophobia.
By seeing how the MMPI factors relate to the NEO factors, you could gain insight into what dimensions were common between the tests and how much variance was shared.
By a twist of fate, Hal becomes trapped in an elevator with famous American life coach Tony Robbins, who after talking with Hal, hypnotizes him into only seeing physical manifestations of a person's inner beauty.
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