The company organization of each camp had a dual-authority supervisory staff: firstly, Department of War personnel or Reserve officers ( until 1 July 1939 ), a " company commander " and junior officer, who were responsible for overall camp operation, logistics, education and training ; and secondly, ten to fourteen technical service civilians, including a camp " superintendent " and " foreman ," employed by either the Departments of Interior or Agriculture, responsible for the particular field work.

One result was the creation by the American company MGM of an English studio MGM-British in Hertfordshire, which produced some very successful films, including A Yank at Oxford ( 1938 ) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips ( 1939 ), before World War II intervened.

Martin Goodman founded the company later known as Marvel Comics under the name Timely Publications in 1939, publishing comic books under the imprint Timely Comics.

In 1939, the company was given a production study by the government to draw plans and develop standard raw material sizes for building M1911A1 pistols.

The company's name was changed to Blackburn Aircraft Limited in 1939, and the company amalgamated with General Aircraft Limited in 1949 as Blackburn and General Aircraft Limited, reverting to Blackburn Aircraft Limited by 1958.

In 1939 the company reorganized as Coronado Corp., an oil company with Geophysical Service Inc ( GSI ), now as a subsidiary.

The City of Memphis bought the private company in 1939 to form MLGW, which was an early customer of electricity from the Tennessee Valley Authority.

The company of ICI Nobel, at Ardeer, was asked in 1939 to construct and operate six factories in southern Scotland.

The merger in 1939 of Shibaura Seisakusho and Tokyo Denki created a new company called Tokyo Shibaura Denki ( Tokyo Shibaura Electric ) ().

The films produced were not successful enough, and the company was saved from bankruptcy only when RKO Pictures offered Laughton the title role ( Quasimodo ) in The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1939 ), with Jamaica Inn co-star O ' Hara.

On May 19, 1945, DuMont opened experimental W3XWT in Washington, D. C. A minority shareholder in DuMont Laboratories was Paramount Pictures, which had advanced $ 400, 000 in 1939 for a 40 % share in the company.

Its permanent and current home, now renovated, designed in the International Style by the modernist architects Philip Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone, opened to the public on May 10, 1939, attended by an illustrious company of 6, 000 people, and with an opening address via radio from the White House by President Franklin D. Roosevelt ..

The company was taken over as one of the divisions in the new Farnsworth Radio and Television Company in 1939.

Other former cases at international courts between Belgium and other countries are — in chronological order — the Oscar Chinn Case of 1934 ( with the United Kingdom, the Borghgrave Case of ( 1937 ), the cases of the electricity company of Sofia ( with Bulgaria ) and of the " société commerciale de Belgique " ( with Greece ) of 1939, the case concerning the Barcelona Traction Company of 1970 ( with Spain ), the arrest warrant case of 2002 ( with the Democratic Republic of the Congo ) and the case concerning legality of use of force of 2004 ( with Serbia and Montenegro ).

Last civilian ships were built 1939, the merchant ships Neidenfels for the German company D. D. G.

When the company began producing comic books in autumn 1939, Beck was assigned to draw a character created by writer Bill Parker called " Captain Thunder ".

Visits to the theatre in Paris gave Resnais the desire to be an actor, and in 1939 he moved to Paris to become an assistant in Georges Pitoëff's company at the Théâtre des Mathurins.

Cass Forest Products, an employee-owned company, operates a sawmill that has been in operation since 1939, and is one of the largest forest product producers in Minnesota.

Dunbrooke began as a dress shirt company in 1939 in Lexington, Missouri has grown to become one of the nation ’ s premiere logoed apparel manufacturers.

The company ’ s name also underwent several transformations from its original name “ Dunhill ” ( 1939 ) to “ Dunbrooke Shirt Company ” ( 1963 ) to “ Dunbrooke Sportswear ” ( 1971 ) to Dunbrooke Apparel Corp ( 2003 ).

The company has operated a yarn manufacturing plant in the town since 1939.

Eventually by 1939, Cox and the company he later sold out to, Metal Industries Ltd, successfully raised 45 of the 52 scuttled ships.

In 1939 Pleasence started working in repertory theatre as an assistant stage manager with Jersey Repertory, making his acting debut with the company as Hareton in Wuthering Heights.

In 1938 Germany annexed Austria and Italy assisted in Germany in resolving the diplomatic crisis between Germany versus Britain and France over claims on Czecholslovakia by arranging the Munich Agreement that gave Germany the Sudetenland and was perceived at the time to have averted a European war, these hopes faded when Hitler violated the Munich Agreement by ordering the invasion and partition of Czechoslovakia between Germany and a client state of Slovakia in 1939.

Francisco León de la Barra ( 1863 – 1939 ), whose interim presidency in 1911 gave Madero's enemies time to organize.

He famously put the point into dramatic relief with his 1939 essay " Proof of an External World ", in which he gave a common sense argument against scepticism by raising his right hand and saying " Here is one hand ," and then raising his left and saying " And here is another ," then concluding that there are at least two external objects in the world, and therefore that he knows ( by this argument ) that an external world exists.

The country secured some boundary revisions from 1938 to 1941: In 1938 the First Vienna Award gave back territory from Czechoslovakia, in 1939 Hungary occupied Carpatho-Ukraine.

In July 1939, Forrest J. Ackerman gave nineteen year old Ray Bradbury the money to head to New York for the First World Science Fiction Convention in New York City, and funded Ray Bradbury's fanzine, titled Futuria Fantasia.

The metamorphosis of the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ) into the Soviet – American Cold War ( 1945 – 91 ) gave impetus to spy novelists.

An earlier military Enigma machine had been captured by Polish Intelligence in 1928 ; Polish intelligence broke the Enigma code in 1932 and gave their findings to Britain and France in 1939, just before the German invasion of Poland.

Her testament of June 6, 1939 states, " I beg the Lord to take my life and my death … for all concerns of the sacred hearts of Jesus and Mary and the holy church, especially for the preservation of our holy order, in particular the Carmelite monasteries of Cologne and Echt, as atonement for the unbelief of the Jewish People and that the Lord will be received by his own people and his kingdom shall come in glory, for the salvation of Germany and the peace of the world, at last for my loved ones, living or dead, and for all God gave to me: that none of them shall go astray.

World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ) gave a boost to the Jewish nationalism, as the Holocaust reaffirmed their call for a Jewish homeland.

Amendments made by the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 gave the Department of the Interior, among other things, the authority to amend repayment contracts and to extend repayment for not more than 40 years.

Davis in the trailer for Dark Victory ( 1939 ), in which she gave one of her ten Oscar-nominated performances

According to J. Bowyer Bell, in the Secret Army, " With the possible exception of Tom Maguire, who went along, the Dáil members felt that the IRA request gave them the moral recognition so long denied by all factions and that their conditional devolution of power would in turn give the IRA the moral basis for the impending campaign " of 1939 – 45.

Adolf Hitler gave Joseph Stalin free rein over these countries and he made immediate use of this to set up Soviet military bases in Estonia and Latvia in late 1939.

In October 1936 he gave his first lieder recital, and he made his opera début at the Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen, in Mozart's Così fan tutte in 1939.

The novelist L. H. Myers anonymously gave £ 300 to enable this and Orwell went with his wife to North Africa where he stayed, in French Morocco, mainly in Marrakesh, from September 1938 to March 1939.

The census in 1939 gave Pelican a count of 48.

As he disagreed with some of the developments within the Confessing Church, he withdrew from the church leadership in 1939, but continued as an elder in his parish, in which capacity he gave legal advice to persecuted fellow Christians and helped Jews who had gone into hiding by providing them with food.

Liddell Hart, whose position as Military Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph and The Times newspapers ( 1925 – 1939 ) gave him great public influence, was a critic of Douglas Haig and attempted to use the battle to indicate a " new " form of doctrine.

His last large-scale work of the 1930s was his Piano Concerto, composed for the pianist Solomon who gave the world premiere at the World's Fair in New York in June 1939.

She married the journalist Peter Fleming in 1935, and in 1939 gave birth to their first child, a son.

The 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, based on the novel, gave it the name by which it is better known, the Yellow Brick Road ( it is never referenced by that title in the original novel ).

Mayer turned her into a glamorous star, mostly popular among college boys, and gave her the leads in several teen-oriented films in the late 1930s and early 1940s, such as Dramatic School ( 1938 ), These Glamour Girls ( 1939 ) and Dancing Co-Ed ( 1939 ).

The CBC gave him the nickname " The Voice of Canada "; however, his role in delivering distressing war news in sonorous tones following Canada's entry into World War II in 1939 caused many listeners to call him " The Voice of Doom ".