BSC was a secret organization that operated from the 35th and 36th floors of the International Building, Rockefeller Center, New York during world War IIBritish Security Coordination was a covert organization set up in New York City by the British Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6 ) in May 1940 upon the authorization of Winston Churchill.

Chris Menges BSC, ASC, ( born 15 September 1940 ) is an English cinematographer and film director.

In a series of articles, re-published in The Contempt of Freedom ( 1940 ) and The Logic of Liberty ( 1951 ), Polanyi claimed that co-operation amongst scientists is analogous to the way in which agents co-ordinate themselves within a free market.

The truth was that between September and November 1940 less than twenty five agents arrived in the country ; mostly of Eastern European extraction, badly trained and poorly motivated.

The first agents of the Free French to arrive from Britain landed on the Brittany coast as early as July 1940.

Ronnie Reed, who ran double agents during the Second World War, and was an MI5 officer from 1940 to 1976, lived in Court Lane Gardens from 1960-1995.

There a staff of analysts and cryptographers began their duties and by May 1940 it was clear that RSS's initial mission-to locate enemy agents in the UK-was complete.

The correspondence files of Christie's literary agents, Edmund Cork and Harold Ober, show that Christie's royalty statement for 15 March 1940 states that the secretarial agency hired by Edmund Cork to type up Murder in Retrospect charged £ 19 13s.

She became a British agent months before the SOE was founded in July 1940 and was one of the longest-serving of all Britain's wartime women agents.

The former president of the Catalan Generalitat, Lluís Companys, was arrested by German agents in collaboration with Vichy France, returned to Spain and executed in 1940.

They noted that Joseph Hansen had met FBI agents numerous times over a number of months in 1940 to give them information about Stalinists in the US alleged to have participated in the assassination of Trotsky, and claimed that this was done without the knowledge of the Trotskyist movement.

* The Night Letter by Paul Spike: In 1940, Nazi agents nearly succeed in blackmailing U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt into not running for a third term.

* In July 1940, three German Abwehr agents were arrested outside Skibbereen after landing near Castletownshend, County Cork.

In 1940, the " Deuxième Bureau " ( French military intelligence ) directed three French agents — Captain Muller and Lieutenants Mossé and Knall-Demars — to remove the world ′ s extant supply, of heavy water from the plant in Vemork in then-neutral Norway.

Prior to 1940, iodides were the predominant antithyroid agents.

In the US it is illegal under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to offer Universal Life Insurance as an " investment " to individuals, but it is frequently offered by agents as a tax-advantaged financial vehicle from which they can borrow as needed later without tax penalties.

In May 1940, FBI agents on Long Island set up a shortwave radio station, and established contact with the Abwehr's radio station in Germany, posing as part of Sebold's spy ring.

From the spring of 1940, the Abwehr sent most of its British-based agents and contacts to see Owens.

According to the most common version, Bułak-Bałachowicz, was shot by Gestapo agents on May 10, 1940, in the Warsaw centre, on the intersection between Francuska and Trzeciego Maja streets.

After Browder went to prison in 1940, Golos took over running Browder's agents.

Trade routes to Europe were disrupted following the fall of France in June 1940, presenting opportunities to both Germany and the U. S. At the same time, many agents or affiliates of U. S. firms operating in Latin America were sympathetic to European Axis powers.

In 1940 the company added a new line — fire insurance — allowing independent agents to more fully depend on Erie to fulfill the insurance needs of their customers.

In 1936 and 1940, the Republican Party ran on a platform of repealing the tariff reductions secured under the RTAA.

By the end of the 1940 ′ s however, Rank had ran up an overdraft of £ 16 million ( the equivalent of £ 364. 5 million in 2012 ), mainly due to big budget flops such as the 1946 Caesar and Cleopatra, which was originally budgeted at £ 250, 000., but which eventually cost £ 1, 278, 000 ( the equivalent of £ 33 million ) and many of the studios famous directors being lured away by rival companies who promised greater independence.

In 1940, Mansfield ran an unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic nomination for the U. S. House of Representatives in Montana's 1st congressional district.

In June 1940, Life ran a series of photos under the heading " Signs of Nazi Fifth Column Everywhere ".

* Wendell Willkie claimed residence in and ran his unsuccessful 1940 presidential campaign from Rushville.

Cars were finally allowed on the beach in 1935, hastening the demise of the beach trolley, which last ran in 1940.

He established the syndicated comic strip Mortimer & Charlie, which ran in newspapers from July 1939 to May 1940, illustrated first by Ben Batsford and then by Carl Buettner.

She also completed a stage adaptation of We the Living that ran briefly in early 1940.

They married in 1940 and divorced in June 28, 1948, before Reagan ran for public office.

In 1940, he revived Texas Slim in Texas Slim and Dirty Dalton ( with the companion strip, Buzzy ), which ran for 18 years.

After the attack by Force H on the French fleet at Mers el Kebir in 1940, anti-British feeling ran high among the French.

Countries under the thumb of the Axis powers in Europe in 1940, e. g., Poland, Czechoslovakia, and France, ran their pavilions with a special nationalistic pride.

He recalls how, in 1940, in the London blitz, " some very frightened people came out of their rooms, ran all over the grounds and we had to go and find them.

In 1940, he ran for the United States Senate against Henrik Shipstead, an incumbent senator who defected from the Farmer Labor Party to join the Republicans.

He later ran for governor in 1940 and 1942, losing both times to Harold Stassen.

Jackson successfully ran for Congress as a Democrat in 1940 and took his seat in the House of Representatives with the 77th Congress on January 3, 1941.

With John Hodiak in the title role, the Li ' l Abner radio serial ran weekdays on NBC from Chicago, from November 20, 1939 to December 6, 1940.

After being sworn in on October 14, 1940, Ball stunned his fellow conservatives in his first speech on the Senate floor, calling for the United States to aid Britain as " a barrier between us and whatever designs Hitler and his allies may have on this continent ," Though he was an opponent of the New Deal, he supported FDR's foreign policy, voting in favor of the lend-lease program on March 8, 1941 in spite of letters from his constituents that ran " 25 to 1 against the bill ".

Minton ran for re-election to his Senate seat in 1940.

During World War II, the opposition Conservative Party ran under the name National Government in the 1940 election as a means of promoting their platform of creating a wartime national government coalition ( evocative of the previous war's Union government ).

On 28 April 1940, three weeks after the German invasion of Denmark, Politiken ran an editorial in which Winston Churchill was called ‘ a dangerous man ’.

MacPhail successfully ran for re-election as a United Farmers of Ontario-Labour candidate in the 1935 election but was defeated running under the same banner in 1940.

In the 1940 federal election, Socreds ran with supporters of William Duncan Herridge as New Democracy, but reverted to the Social Credit name in subsequent elections with the Social Credit Association of Canada being officially formed in 1944.