By 1942, with the war industries booming and the draft in operation, need declined and Congress voted to close the program.

By July 1942, the British and Indian forces in Burma had completed their fighting retreat back into India, and Alexander, having yet again been mentioned in despatches for his Burma service, was recalled to the United Kingdom.

By the end of 1943, the Soviets occupied half of the territory taken by the Germans from 1941 – 1942.

By forging Mathieu as an absolute rationalist, analyzing every situation, and functioning entirely on reason, he removed any strands of authentic content from his character and as a result, Mathieu could " recognize no allegiance except to self " ( Sartre 1942: 13 ), though he realized that without " responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing " ( Sartre 1942: 14 ).

By the end of 1942, 3, 237 Katyusha launchers of all types had been built, and by the end of the war total production reached about 10, 000.

By the winter of 1941 – 1942 just 39 percent of the fighter force was operational and possessed just 60 more combat aircraft than it did in June 1941 despite its increased commitments.

By spring 1942, he was considering involvement in war work.

By 1942, with his power waning, Göring fell out of favor and was replaced in the Nazi hierarchy by Himmler.

By June 1942, just enough US penicillin was available to treat ten patients.

By Executive Order 9277, dated December 3, 1942, the decoration was extended to be applicable to all services and the order required that regulations of the Services be uniform in application as far as practicable.

By mid 1942 these corps were being grouped together into Tank Armies whose strength by the end of the war could be up to 700 tanks and 50, 000 men.

By 1942, all activities of the SS were managed through twelve main offices of the Allgemeine-SS.

By early 1942, the latter had made considerable progress into decrypting Japanese naval messages.

By 9 February 1942, Peenemünde engineer de Beek had documented the radio interference area of a V-2 as 10, 000 meters around the “ Firing Point ”, and the first successful A-4 flight on 3 October 1943, used radio control for Brennschluss.

By the early 1940s, the British film industry began to combine documentary techniques with fictional stories in films like Noël Coward's In Which We Serve ( 1942 ), Millions Like Us ( 1943 ) and The Way Ahead ( 1944 ).

By 1942, the military was pressing King hard to send conscripts to Europe.

By 1942, the Schlesinger studio had surpassed Walt Disney Studios as the most successful producer of animated shorts in the United States.

By 1942 Rockefeller had become increasingly impatient that his purchased property might never be added to the park, and wrote to the Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes that he was considering selling the land to another party.

By early 1942, Raeder and Dönitz were openly feuding with each other, with Dönitz mocking Raeder's obsession with " dinosaurs ", as Dönitz called battleships, and Raeder complaining of Dönitz's massive ego and his tendency to run the U-boat arm as it were his own private navy.

By 1942, Dönitz had emerged as Hitler's favourite admiral ( whom Hitler liked so much that he eventually named him as his successor ), and that to sack Dönitz would probably lead Hitler to sack him in turn.

Among the most notable are Jumbo ( 1935 ), On Your Toes ( 1936, which included the ballet " Slaughter on Tenth Avenue ", choreographed by George Balanchine ), Babes in Arms ( 1937 ), I Married an Angel ( 1938 ), The Boys from Syracuse ( 1938 ), Pal Joey ( 1940 ), and their last original work, By Jupiter ( 1942 ).

* By Jupiter ( 1942 )

By January 12, 1942, the British Admiralty's intelligence community had noted a " heavy concentration " of U-boats off the " North American seaboard from New York to Cape Race " and passed along this fact to the United States Navy.

The album's title song received some pop radio airplay and crossed over to No. 96 on the Billboard Hot 100, and " 1974 ( We Were Young )" and " Saved By Love " also charted as Adult Contemporary songs.

By contrast, the album had limited success in the US, only reaching number 83 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart.

By the second half of 1992 Ten had become a breakthrough success, being certified gold and reaching number two on the Billboard charts.

By the end of the year, she was the first female to have four consecutive Billboard Hot 100 Top Five hits from one album.

By March 1975, Swan Song had four albums ( Bad Company, Silk Torpedo, Physical Graffiti, and Suicide Sal ) in the Billboard Top 200 chart.

By the end of October, the Kingsmen's version was listed in Billboard as a regional breakout and a " bubbling under " entry for the national chart.

By early 1976, " Love to Love You Baby " had reached 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100, while the parent album of the same name sold over a million copies.

The first single from that album, a duet with Collins called " Easy Lover ", sold over a million copies, rose to number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 on the UK Singles Chart respectively, and was Grammy-nominated for Best Pop Vocal Performance By A Duo or Group.

By April 4, 1964, The Beatles held the top 5 positions on the Billboard singles chart, the only time to date that any act has accomplished such a feat.

By the end of 1989, Hangin ' Tough had climbed to number one on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart and had gone eight-times platinum.

By the end of the year Billboard magazine listed Loretta Lynn as the No. 4 Most Promising Country Female Artist.

" By March 1959, Billboard noted that the popularity of the film and of Mandel's and Mulligan's albums " prompted a rush of jazz film scores ", and cited the signing of Duke Ellington to do the score for that year's Anatomy of a Murder, the release of The Five Pennies ( a biopic about the jazz band leader Red Nichols ), and a 1960 documentary Jazz on a Summer's Day,.

Their second single " Passin ' Me By " became a minor Billboard hit, peaking at No. 52 on the Hot 100.

By the time Billboard instituted the first of its " race music " charts in October 1942, Broonzy's recordings were less popular and none appeared in the charts.

By the time the band's debut album was released in 1993, anticipation surrounding the project was enough to briefly drive the album to the No. 3 position on the Billboard top 200 list.

By 1988, some college rock artists had begun to gain mainstream recognition with several having singles reach Top 40 portion of the Billboard Hot 100.

By doing this, many of Page's singles also made the Billboard Country Chart.

The Hooters ' 1985 Columbia Records debut album, Nervous Night, achieved platinum status around the world, selling in excess of 2 million copies and included Billboard Top 40 hits " Day By Day " ( No. 18 ), " And We Danced " ( No. 21 ) and " Where Do The Children Go " that featured accompanying vocals from Patty Smyth ( No. 38 ).

* A Crossover Artist Who Feels None the Worse for the Trip — By Billboard

By 1976, the club boasted a membership of 100, 000 people, and in 1978, was voted the world's number one discotheque by Billboard Magazine.

By the spring of 1994, it had sold over 200, 000 units, peaking at # 196 on the Billboard 200 and was Matador's most successful release so far.

Among the Blue Notes ' most important and successful recordings are love songs such as 1972's " If You Don't Know Me By Now " (# 1 Billboard R & B, # 3 pop ), their breakout single, " I Miss You " (# 7 R & B, # 58 pop ), " The Love I Lost " (# 1 R & B, # 7 pop, 1973 ) and socially conscious songs such as " Wake Up Everybody " (# 1 R & B, # 12 pop ) and " Bad Luck " (# 4 R & B, # 15 pop ), both in 1975.

Detroit underground hip hop label Reel Life Productions had its highest charting success with the Dayton Family member Bootleg's solo release Hated By Many Loved By Few, which peaked at # 174 on the Billboard 200, # 6 on Independent Albums, and # 38 on Top R & B / Hip-Hop Albums and Esham's Tongues, which peaked at # 195 on the Billboard 200, # 7 on Independent Albums, # 46 on Top R & B / Hip-Hop Albums and # 14 on Top Heatseekers.