Hounded by debtors, Thomas and his family left Laugharne in July 1940 and moved to the home of critic John Davenport in Marshfield.

That is the time when I left Columbia University, and after a few months of commuting between Chicago and New York, eventually moved to Chicago to keep up the work there, and from then on, with a few notable exceptions, the work at Columbia was concentrated on the isotope separation phase of the atomic energy project, initiated by Booth, Dunning and Urey about 1940 ".

He moved into the Norwegian crown prince's residence at Skaugum in September 1940 and made his headquarters in Stortinget ( the Norwegian parliament buildings ).

On June 14, 1940, the day Paris was declared an open city by the French and occupied by German troops, Riefenstahl wrote to Hitler in a telegram, “ With indescribable joy, deeply moved and filled with burning gratitude, we share with you, my Führer, your and Germany's greatest victory, the entry of German troops into Paris.

Following the occupation of Luxembourg by Germany on the 10 May 1940, recruitment for the Company of Volunteers continued until the 4 December 1940 when they were moved to Weimar in Germany to be trained as German police.

In 1940, the family moved to New York City, where Ono's father was working.

The European services moved permanently into Bush House towards the end of 1940, completing the move in 1941, with the Overseas services joining them in 1958.

In 1940, Antonioni moved to Rome, where he worked for Cinema, the official Fascist film magazine edited by Vittorio Mussolini.

Richter moved from Switzerland to the United States in 1940 and became an American citizen.

He made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and his career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, a 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl.

By 1940, 2. 5 million people had moved out of the Plains states ; of those, 200, 000 moved to California.

He largely moved away from historical parts when he played an Italian vineyard owner in California in They Knew What They Wanted ( 1940 ); a South Seas patriarch in The Tuttles of Tahiti ( 1942 ); and an American admiral during World War II in Stand by for Action ( 1942 ).

The lab moved to its site on the hill above campus in 1940 as its machines ( specifically, the cyclotron ) became too big to house on the university grounds.

He joined the Dutch Diplomatic Service in 1938 and after a two year assignment at the Private Office of the Foreign Minister he was appointed as attaché in Bern ( Switzerland ) in 1940 and in late 1941 he moved to Lisbon ( Portugal ).

Following her parole in 1940, she moved to Parsonsburg, Maryland, where she resided until her death in 1944.

Gumbel then moved to France, where he taught in Paris and Lyon, and then to the United States in 1940.

The Fish and Wildlife Service was finally created in 1940, when the Bureaus of Fisheries and Biological Survey were combined after being moved to the Department of the Interior.

By 1940, he had moved up to the Canadiens senior team in the Quebec league.

Following the end of her marriage to the British actor Jack Hawkins, she moved to New York in 1940, where she met Canadian actor Hume Cronyn.

After two years the school became independent, and, in 1940, moved from St. Margaret's Hall to its present site along the south bank of the Boise River between Capitol Boulevard and Broadway Avenue.

Between 1940 and 1965, 6 million people moved to South Florida: 1, 000 people moved to Miami every week.

In 1940 he moved into the bed-sitting room he would occupy for the next four decades, the first floor apartment at 129 Beaufort Street.

After leaving Universal he began a long collaboration with Samuel Goldwyn for whom he directed such classics as Dodsworth ( 1936 ), These Three ( 1936 ), Dead End ( 1937 ), Wuthering Heights ( 1939 ), The Westerner ( 1940 ), The Little Foxes ( 1941 ) and The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ).

In 1940, Universal signed Abbott and Costello to their first film, One Night in the Tropics.

They were hugely successful, which ultimately led to their appearance in a Broadway play in 1939, " The Streets of Paris ", and signing with Universal Studios in 1940.

In 1940 they were signed by Universal Studios for the film One Night in the Tropics.

Shortly after making this film, Scott portrayed Wyatt Earp in Frontier Marshal ( 1939 ) and, for Universal, starred with Kay Francis in When the Daltons Rode ( 1940 ).

He starred in several popular films at this time, including The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi alongside Betty Grable in 1933 and Search for Beauty ( 1934 ), and in 1936 was Flash Gordon in the very successful Flash Gordon serial, followed by two sequels, released by Universal in 1938 and 1940.

In 1935, the studio was severed from Universal and became Walter Lantz Productions under Lantz's direct control, and in 1940 Lantz managed to gain the copyright for his characters.

A 1940 court decision obligated Sullavan to fulfill her original 1933 agreement with Universal.

** The Green Hornet ( serial ), the 1940 Universal movie serial based on the radio series

As Assistant Secretary of War from 1937 to 1940, Johnson advocated Universal Military education and training, rearmament, and expansion of military aviation.

Unlike Frankenstein and Dracula, and other, later Universal horror films, this film had no sequels, but rather was semi-remade in the 1940's b-film The Mummy's Hand ( 1940 ), and its sequels, The Mummy's Tomb ( 1942 ), The Mummy's Ghost ( 1944 ), The Mummy's Curse ( 1944 ), which were later spoofed in 1950's Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy.

* L. S. Amery, " Days of Fresh Air, Being Reminiscences of Outdoor Life " ( London: Hutchinson Universal Book Club, 1940 ).

The cartoon is noted for being the first appearance of Woody Woodpecker, and was released by Universal Pictures on November 25, 1940.

He was not averse to quitting a job when in conflict with those in charge -- as he did while directing at the Mill Pond Theater in 1940 and writing for Universal in 1943.

A film version was released on August 9, 1940 by Universal Pictures.

In 1940 they moved to Universal Pictures, where they were scheduled to star in The Boys from Syracuse, but were removed from that production and reassigned to make brash B comedies with music.

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.

The rabbit's hyperactive personality and laughing voice provided by Mel Blanc predated the 1940 Walter Lantz / Universal Pictures release Knock Knock which starred Andy Panda and introduced cartoon audiences to Woody Woodpecker which was created for the Lantz studio by Hardaway after his departure from the Leon Schlesinger / Warner Brothers studio.

However, production of a single model came to be preferred and the Universal design appeared in 1940 ; this would be the most widely produced of the Carriers.

My Little Chickadee ( 1940 ) is a Universal comedy / western motion picture starring Mae West and W. C. Fields, with Joseph Calleia, Ruth Donnelly, Margaret Hamilton, Donald Meek, Willard Robertson, Dick Foran, George Moran, William B. Davidson, and Addison Richards.

In 1940, she landed a contract with Universal Studios.

A stand-out role for Reynolds was as the waitress and loyal girlfriend opposite wrongly-accused Richard Cromwell in Universal Pictures's anti-Nazi action drama entitled, Enemy Agent ( 1940 ).

The Invisible Man Returns is a 1940 horror science fiction film from Universal.

The Invisible Woman is a science fiction, comedy film that was released near the end of 1940 by Universal.