Category: Retail companies established in 1939

By 1939, Franco owed these and other companies more than $ 100, 000, 000.

* 1939 – Texaco becomes one of the first oil companies to introduce a " Registered Rest Room " program to ensure that restroom facilities at all Texaco stations nationwide maintained a standard level of cleanliness to the motoring public.

Toshiba was founded by the merging of two companies in 1939.

) By 1939, Decca and EMI were the only record companies in the UK.

* Partizánske was established in 1938 – 1939, when Jan Antonín Baťa of Zlín, Czechoslovakia ( now Czech Republic ) and his powerful network of companies built a shoe factory in the cadastral area of Šimonovany municipality.

By April 1939, nearly all Jewish companies had either collapsed under financial pressure and declining profits, or had been persuaded to sell out to the government, further reducing their rights as human beings ; they were, in many ways, effectively separated from the German populace.

In 1939, the population reached 1, 500 as bus companies made connections to Martins Ferry, Steubenville, Cadiz, and Wheeling, luring business from bigger cities.

The companies had been operating together since war was declared on 1 September 1939, when their operations were evacuated from the London area to Bristol.

Founded in 1867 as a Bielefeld sewing machine repair company, AG Dürkoppwerke employed 1, 665 people in 1892 ; it used Waffenamt code " WaA547 " from 1938 to 1939 as the Dürkopp-Werke, and merged with other Bielefeld companies to form Dürkopp Adler AG in 1990.

Adam Osborne ( March 6, 1939 – March 18, 2003 ) was an Indian-born British-American author, book and software publisher, and computer designer who founded several companies in the United States and elsewhere.

Before 1939, most health care had to be paid for through non government organisations – through a vast network of friendly societies, trade unions and other insurance companies which counted the vast majority of the UK working population as members.

From late 1936 to 1939 Trenchard spent much of his time travelling overseas on behalf of the companies who employed him as a director.

In November 1939, IAL was restructured into three separate companies: British European Airways, British Overseas Airways Corporation ( BOAC ), and British South American Airways ( which merged with BOAC in 1949 ), with the change being made official in 1 April 1940.

Category: Publishing companies established in 1939

In 1933 Italian companies were already producing underwater oxygen rebreathers, but the first scuba diving set is generally recognised inside the USA as being invented in 1939 by Christian Lambertsen, who dubbed it the Lambertsen Amphibious Respirator Unit ( LARU ).

" At a time when tobacco companies were major advertisers, Seldes discussed the contents of a study called, " Tobacco Smoking and Longevity ", which he said had been suppressed since 1939.

The Finnish Army consisted of 9 field divisions, 4 brigades and a number of small independent battalions and companies at the beginning of the Winter War in 1939.

In 1939 he moved to Detroit and joined the American Automobile Manufacturers Association, where he served as the chief spokesman for the automobile industry during World War II and headed a cooperative arrangement in which companies could share production improvements.

From 1939 to 1944, his funding requests were turned down by more than twenty companies.

and by 1939, it owned or controlled 29 local transportation companies in 27 different cities in 10 states.

By 1950, there were 152 Equity companies, including the Ogunquit Playhouse and Skowhegan Playhouse in Maine ; the Woodstock Playhouse in upstate New York ; Falmouth Playhouse in Massachusetts ( burned down in 1994 ); Priscilla Beach Theatre in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope ( suburban Philadelphia ), Pennsylvania ( established in 1939 ).

After 1939 its successor companies manufactured monkey wrenches from Coes designs until the mid-1960s, yielding a production run of over 120 years.

He is noted for, during the Depression of the 1930s, buying 100 shares of each NYSE listed company which was then selling for less than $ 1 a share ($ today ) ( 104 companies, in 1939 ), later making many times the money back when USA industry picked up as a result of WWII.

Subsequent formalizations were framed as attempts to define " effective calculability " or " effective method "; those formalizations included the Gödel – Herbrand – Kleene recursive functions of 1930, 1934 and 1935, Alonzo Church's lambda calculus of 1936, Emil Post's " Formulation 1 " of 1936, and Alan Turing's Turing machines of 1936 – 7 and 1939.

The initial funds were released in September, and the 11-tube prototype was first demonstrated in October, 1939.

Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for Oświęcim, the town by and around which the camps were located ; the name " Auschwitz " was made the official name again by the Germans after they invaded Poland in September 1939.

Nin left Paris in the late summer of 1939, when residents from overseas were urged to leave France due to the upcoming war and returned to New York City with Guiler ( who was, on his own wish, all but edited out of her diaries published in her lifetime and whose role in her life is therefore difficult to gauge ).

All staff had to sign the Official Secrets Act ( 1939 ), and were instructed that they should never discuss their work outside their immediate section.

Blitzkrieg operations were very effective during the campaigns of 1939 – 1941.

Despite the term blitzkrieg being coined by journalists during the Invasion of Poland of 1939, historians Mathew Cooper and J. P Harris generally hold that German operations during it were more consistent with more traditional methods.

Many historians now hold the position that blitzkrieg was not a military theory, and the campaigns conducted by the German military in 1939 to circa, 1942 ( with the exception of Operation Barbarossa ) were improvised invasions put together and modified at the last moment and therefore was not a proper military strategy.

The so called " blitzkrieg campaigns " of 1939 – circa 1942, were well within that operational context.

However, in August 1939, due to the imminence of war and the likelihood of air-raids the Parthenon Sculptures along with Museum's most valued collections were dispersed to secure basements, country houses, Aldwych tube station, the National Library of Wales and a quarry.

On a day in 1939, Sprinz had a blimp hover overhead at 800 feet, from which were to be dropped balls for him to catch.

Another myth describes Polish cavalry as being armed with both sabres and lances ; lances were used for peacetime ceremonial purposes only and the primary weapon of the Polish cavalryman in 1939 was a rifle.

In 1939 Muslim leaders Isa Yusuf Alptekin and Ma Fuliang were sent by Chiang to several Middle eastern countries, including Egypt, Turkey, and Syria, to gain support for the Chinese War against Japan, and to express his support for Muslims.

All-Union Population Censuses were carried out in the USSR ( which included RSFSR and the other republics ) in 1920 ( urban only ), 1926, 1937, 1939, 1959, 1970, 1979, and 1989.

Anti-tank guns were also tremendously improved during the war: in 1939, the British used primarily 2 pounder and 6 pounder guns.

There were plans for races at Zandvoort before World War II: the first street race was held on June 3, 1939.

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.

First synthesized in 1874, DDT's insecticidal properties were not discovered until 1939, and it was used with great success in the second half of World War II to control malaria and typhus among civilians and troops.

First synthesized in 1874 by Othmar Zeidler, DDT's insecticidal properties were not discovered until 1939 by the Swiss scientist Paul Hermann Müller, who was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his efforts.

Subsequent studies and collections during the Plantation Era were made in 1885, 1905, 1939, and 1967.

Kaye and his wife, Sylvia, both grew up in Brooklyn, living only a few blocks apart, but they did not meet until they were both working on an off-Broadway show in 1939.

In 1939, diplomatic relations between Egypt and Iran were upgraded to ambassadorial level, and Youssef Zulficar Pasha was appointed as Egypt's first ambassador in Tehran.

The city of Asmara had a population of 98, 000, of which 53, 000 were Italians according to the Italian census of 1939.

After his death, Husserl's manuscripts, amounting to approximately 40, 000 pages of " Gabelsberger " stenography and his complete research library, were in 1939 smuggled to Belgium by the Franciscan priest Herman Van Breda.