In June, 1940, Sergeant Helion, with a company of reserve troops waiting to go into battle, was sketching the hills south of the Loire River, when the war suddenly rolled in upon him.

The program was instituted in 1940, and releases are available only from the Recording Laboratory of the Library of Congress, Washington 25, D.C..

He was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger Fund Purchase Prize at the Academy in 1930 ), and elevated to Academicianship in 1940.

" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

One of van Vogt's best-known novels of this period is Slan, which was originally serialised in Astounding Science Fiction ( September-December 1940 ).

The element was first produced by Dale R. Corson, Kenneth Ross MacKenzie, and Emilio Segrè at the University of California, Berkeley in 1940.

* 1940 – Estonia was illegally annexed by the Soviet Union.

It hosted the annual Hall of Fame Game, an exhibition game between two major league teams that was played from 1940 until 2008.

In 1940, ACLU leadership was caught up in the Red Scare, and voted to exclude Communists from its leadership positions.

Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.

Weil returned to France via Sweden and the United Kingdom, and was detained at Le Havre in January 1940.

He was tried on 3 May 1940.

The StuG III was the most-produced German armored fighting vehicle of any type built during the war years, with some 9, 400 examples built from January 1940 through March 1945.

In September 1940 a section of the No. 2 Squadron RAF Regiment Company was detached to General Wavell ’ s ground forces during the first offensive against the Italians in Egypt.

Another was unveiled at St Mildred's Church, Bread St, London, in 1932 ; that church was destroyed in the London Blitz in 1940, but the principal elements of the monument were re-erected in St Mary-le-Bow at the west end of Watling Street, near Saint Paul's Cathedral, in 1968.

The rule was again adopted in 1939, only to be eliminated again in 1940, before being adopted for the last time in 1954.

The award was established in 1940 by the Chicago chapter of the BBWAA, which selected an annual winner from 1940 through 1946.

In July 1940, he was appointed acting lieutenant-general, placed in command of V Corps, responsible for the defence of Hampshire and Dorset, and started a long-running feud with the new commander-in-chief, Southern Command, Claude Auchinleck.

The only direct enemy action that the site experienced was when 3 bombs, thought to have been intended for Bletchley railway station, were dropped on 20 – 21 November 1940.

Boone was served by the narrow gauge East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad ( nicknamed " Tweetsie ") until the flood of 1940.

In 1940, as the European political situation worsened after the outbreak of World War II, Bartók was increasingly tempted to flee Hungary.

Penicillinase was the first β-lactamase to be identified: It was first isolated by Abraham and Chain in 1940 from Gram-negative E. coli even before penicillin entered clinical use, but penicillinase production quickly spread to bacteria that previously did not produce it or produced it only rarely.

( Reed had been invited to join MI5 in 1940 and remained until his retirement in 1976 ).

Tippett was invited in 1940 to become the director of music at Morley College in South London.

Sim was keen to promote and encourage young acting talent, and, having seen a young talent in the making, the Sims invited George Cole to live with them in 1940, when he was 15 years old.

* Toscanini was invited in the year 1940 to visit a movie set at the Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios.

In December 1940, Tuve invited Harry Diamond and Wilbur S. Hinman, Jr, of the United States National Bureau of Standards ( NBS ) to investigate Berkner's improved fuze.

Instead, the Blue Bombers were invited to play the Columbus Bullies of the American Football League of 1940 ; although Columbus won the three-game series, 2 games to 1, the one game Winnipeg won gives them a distinction of being one of only two current CFL teams to have defeated a top-level professional American football team ( the other being the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, who defeated the modern-day Buffalo Bills in a 1961 game ).

In 1940 the Mauser Company was invited to take part in a competition to re-equip the German Army with a semi-automatic rifle, the Gewehr 41.

In 1940, Ruhrstahl was invited to join the development, since they already had experience in the development and production of unguided bombs.

He invited Lindbergh in 1940 to speak at Yale.

In 1940, following the award, he was invited by the Croatian Chemical Association, where he delivered a lecture to an over packed hall of dignitaries.

In June 1940, Wavell invited Emperor Selassie to Sudan so his supporters could rally around him.

In 1939, Dunham's company gave further performances in Chicago and Cincinnati and then went back to New York, where Dunham had been invited to stage a new number for the popular, long-running musical revue Pins and Needles 1940, produced by the International Ladies ' Garment Workers Union.

He served on the front bench but was not invited by Winston Churchill to join the Coalition government in 1940 ; as one of the most senior Labour figures not in office, the responsibilities of running the party were given to him.

A leading advocate for collaboration following France's defeat by Germany in World War II, in July 1940 Brinon was invited by Pierre Laval, Vice-Premier of the new Vichy regime, to act as its representative to the German High Command in occupied Paris.

The framing scenes, on the other hand, both take place in the late Spring of 1940, just at the moment of the defeat of France in the second great world conflict.

During the Battle of France in 1940, De Gaulle's 4th Armoured Division and elements of the British Expeditionary Force's 1st Army Tank Brigade both made probing attacks on the German flank, actually pushing into the rear of the advancing armoured columns at times.

It has been argued by John Mosier that, while the French soldiers in 1940 were better trained than German soldiers, as were the Americans later, and the German army was the least mechanised of the major armies, its leadership cadres were both larger and superior and their high standards of leadership were the primary reason for the successes of the German army in World War Two as it had been in World War One.

Recognising the need for an even larger craft capable of landing both tanks and infantry onto a hostile shore, the Navy began development of the 220-ton Marinefährprahm ( MFP ) but these too were unavailable in time for a landing on English soil in 1940, the first of them not being commissioned until April 1941.

In 1940, Romania lost territory in both east and west: In June 1940, after receiving an ultimatum from the Soviet Union, Romania ceded Bessarabia and northern Bukovina ( see Soviet occupation of Bessarabia ).

Their two daughters, Laurence ( 1864 – 1940 ) and Anna ( 1867 – 1943 ), both had artistic leanings: the former in literature, the latter in art.

Food prices were stabilised in December 1939, initially as temporary measure, but made permanent in August 1940, while both milk and meals were provided at subsidised prices, or free in those cases of real need.

Following a July 1940 conference in Kiel, the Abwehr ( German intelligence ) launched an espionage campaign against Britain involving both intelligence gathering and sabotage.

By 1940, the procedure was introduced to both England and the US.

Since in early July 1940 it was believed by both Hitler and Raeder that Britain would soon surrender, the decision to resume the Z Plan, which meant spending hundreds of millions of Reichsmarks building warships that would take at least five years to finish, reflected plans for an ultimate war with the United States.

In a series of reports Raeder submitted to Hitler starting in June 1940, he called for Germany to permanently occupy France and to annex Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, and all of the British, French and Belgian colonies in sub-Saharan Africa plus South Africa in order that Germany would become the dominant naval power in both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

After George Washington Slept Here ( 1940 ), Kaufman and Hart called it quits, although throughout the 1930s, Hart worked both with and without Kaufman on several musicals and revues, including: Face the Music ( 1932 ); As Thousands Cheer ( 1933 ), with songs by Irving Berlin ; Jubilee ( musical ) ( 1935 ), with songs by Cole Porter ; and I'd Rather Be Right ( 1937 ), with songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.

Other examples include The Philadelphia Story and His Girl Friday, both released in 1940 and both starring Grant, and the Noël Coward play and film Private Lives.

He is best known for having produced Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ) and Rebecca ( 1940 ), both of which earned him an Oscar for Best Picture.

Die schweigsame Frau ( 1934 ), was composed with Stefan Zweig as librettist ; Friedenstag ( 1935 – 6 ) and Daphne ( 1937 ) both had a libretto by Joseph Gregor and Stefan Zweig ; and Die Liebe der Danae ( 1940 ) was with Joseph Gregor.

She specialised in character roles, notably that of Queen Elizabeth I in both Fire Over England ( 1937 ) and The Sea Hawk ( 1940 ).

His parents, George Philip Gein ( 1873 – 1940 ) and Augusta Wilhelmine ( Lehrke ) Gein ( 1878 – 1945 ), both natives of Wisconsin, had two sons: Henry George Gein ( 1901 – 1944 ), and his younger brother, Edward Theodore Gein.

Up until 1940 the count for both names was near enough to equal, with in some cases companies carrying both spelling variations in successive years.

Gento has two younger brothers called Julio ( born in 1939 ) and Antonio ( born in 1940 ) that also are former footballers and both played for Real Madrid but they were not as successful as their older brother Francisco.

Paul Klee (; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940 ) was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered both a German and a Swiss painter.

Zarraonandía debuted with the Athletic Club on September 29, 1940, in a league match against Valencia CF The game concluded in a draw, with Zarraonandía scoring both goals for his team ( including his first goal in the league, scored 17 minutes into the game ).

Clear definitions for both terms are offered by Walter Bacon in a patent application filed in 1940 assigned to Bell Telephone Laboratories: "...