In the 1930s, Fleming ’ s trials occasionally showed more promise, and he continued, until 1940, to try to interest a chemist skilled enough to further refine usable penicillin.

After the team had developed a method of purifying penicillin to an effective first stable form in 1940, several clinical trials ensued, and their amazing success inspired the team to develop methods for mass production and mass distribution in 1945.

He also kept, grew and distributed the original mould for twelve years, and continued until 1940 to try to get help from any chemist who had enough skill to make penicillin.

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.

In 1940, Cornforth and other chemists measured the yield of penicillin in arbitrary units to understand the conditions that favoured penicillin production and activity, and he contributed to the authoring of The Chemistry of Penicillin.

Dawson became the first person in history to stick a needle full of an antibiotic ( penicillin ) into a patient, on October 16, 1940.

The devices were largely removed when the enemy became used to the noise, after the Battle of France in 1940, bombs sometimes having whistles attached instead.

In 1940 " New San Antonio Rose " sold a million records and became the signature song of The Texas Playboys.

Alston became staff artist at the Office of War Information and Public Relations in 1940, creating drawings of notable African Americans.

In 1940 Rogers became professor of clinical psychology at Ohio State University, where he wrote his second book, Counseling and Psychotherapy ( 1942 ).

Arnaz and Ball's marriage ( 1940 ) was turbulent, and convinced that Arnaz was being unfaithful to her, and also because Desi came home drunk several times, Ball filed for divorce in September 1944, but returned to him before the interlocutory decree became final.

The Futurians became less fan-oriented and more professional after 1940.

Despite the official names " National Comics " and " National Periodical Publications ", the line used the logo " Superman-DC " throughout ( the DC logo could be seen on their covers and ads as early as 1940 ), and the company became known colloquially as DC Comics for years before the official adoption of that name in 1977.

Emperor Jimmu became the object of national commemoration in February 1940.

The shipyard was expanded in 1940 and became a branch of the Kiel shipyard ( Deutsche Werke Kiel A. G .).

After emigrating from Germany in 1933, in 1934, Marcuse immigrated to the United States, where he became a citizen in 1940.

After taking around 300, 000 Polish prisoners in 1939 and early 1940, 25, 700 Polish POWs were executed on 5 March 1940, pursuant to a note to Stalin from Lavrenty Beria, in what became known as the Katyn massacre.

After 1940, Hitler made few public appearances, and even his broadcasts became less frequent, so Goebbels increasingly became the face and the voice of the Nazi regime for the German people.

After the armistice of 1940, the family of Simone and Jacques-Yves Cousteau took refuge in Megève, where he became a friend of the Ichac family who also lived there.

In 1940 he became a professor of psychology at the University of Königsberg.

After the Winter War ( 1939 – 1940 ) according to the Moscow Peace Treaty, Ladoga, previously shared with Finland, became an internal basin of the Soviet Union.

In 1940 it was annexed by the Soviet Union, joined to the Moldavian ASSR, and became the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic until the dissolution of the USSR.

In 1940, under the pen-name " Cato " he and two other Beaverbrook journalists ( Frank Owen, editor of the Standard, and Peter Howard of the Daily Express ) published Guilty Men, a Left Book Club book attacking the appeasement policy of the Chamberlain government that became a run-away best-seller.

In 1940, the forms became more abstract, proportions changed.

The Economy Run originated with the Gilmore Oil Company of California in 1936 ( which was purchased by Socony-Vacuum in 1940 ) and later became the Mobilgas Economy Run and still later, the Mobil Economy Run.

Later in the spring of 1940, the Kriegsmarine became even more opposed to invading Britain after its Pyrrhic victory in Norway.

Brazzaville hereby became the capital of the so-called Free French in Africa, ruled in theory by a Conseil de défense de l ' Empire set up by De Gaulle on 27 October 1940.

Because of this and his earlier support for De Gaulle he became Governor General of the Afrique Equatoriale Française ( AEF ) in 1940, the first not white to achieve this position in French colonial history.

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

Few records are available concerning the subject prior to 1940.

Half of the German divisions available in 1940 were combat ready, often being more poorly equipped than the British and French Armies, as well as the German Army of 1914.

Fewer eligible young men were available after conscription commenced in 1940.

* The Mathnawí of Jalálu ' ddín Rúmí, edited from the oldest manuscripts available, with critical notes, translation and commentary by Reynold A. Nicholson, in 8 volumes, London: Messrs Luzac & Co., 1925 – 1940.

Forgetting his and the navy's own prior emphasis on the French ports as the best base for Atlantic operations, and fearful that that the war might end before he could demonstrate to Hitler's satisfaction the great value of a battleship navy, he ordered the two available battleships into operations off the Norwegian coasts in late May and June 1940.

During 1940, the WPA changed policy and began vocational educational training of the unemployed to make them available for factory jobs.

( High Society ( 1956 ) and The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 )) This magnificent wooden sailboat is now available for charter on the Seneca Lake.

Natural gas was made available to the area in 1934, the first water works was built in 1936 and the original sewer system was completed in 1940.

The first Jamestown Bridge opened in the summer of 1940, replacing West Ferry service with a continuously available link to the west.

First, the full manpower of metropolitan France was available for the first time since 1940.

On the fall of France in 1940, Messiaen was made a prisoner of war, during which time he composed his (" Quartet for the end of time ") for the four available instruments — piano, violin, cello and clarinet.

in the limited set of charts available for 1940.

The Germans were supposedly also working on proximity fuses in the 1930s, research and prototype work at Rheinmetal being halted in 1940 to devote available resources to projects deemed more necessary.

Consumer products such as baby alarms have been available at least since 1940.

In the United States, sesame tahini, along with other raw nut butters, was available by 1940 in health food stores.

The wig available for use by the speaker was used by Herbert ' Doc ' Evatt when he was a High Court Justice ( 1930 – 1940 ) and was donated to the Parliament by Evatt when he was elected to the House in 1951.

During the Second World War, although being severely outnumbered, counting only 79 aircraft against the 380 fighters and bombers available to the Italian Regia Aeronautica, RHAF managed to successfully resist the Italian invasion in 1940.

Rise and Fall is based upon captured Third Reich documents, the available diaries of propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, General Franz Halder, and of the Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano, evidence and testimony from the Nuremberg trials, British Foreign Office reports, and the author's recollection of six years reporting on the Third Reich for newspapers, the United Press International ( UPI ), and CBS Radio — terminated by Nazi Party censorship in 1940.

* 1940 Ford Coupe ( no longer available on new cars )

Historically, it was always considered legal and binding for a couple to marry by making public promises, without a formal ceremony but this form has not been available since 1940.

In 1931, the award was made available to members of the Merchant Navy and in 1940 eligibility was further extended to non-naval personnel ( British Army and Royal Air Force ) serving aboard a British vessel.

The U-boats campaign was very successful especially in the two happy periods ( in 1940 and in 1942 ), and was able to reduce the total shipping available to the Allies up to a breakage point until 1943, when the tide of war was turning against Germany.

The British were in the midst of developing their own Stabilized Automatic Bomb Sight ( SABS ), but it would not be available until 1940 at the earliest, and likely later.