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.

Eckert's publication of Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation in 1940, described punch card techniques sufficiently advanced to solve some differential equations or perform multiplication and division using floating point representations, all on punched cards and unit record machines.

An isolated population in the Laptev Sea is considered by some authorities, including many Russian biologists and the canonical Mammal Species of the World, to be a third subspecies, O. r. laptevi ( Chapskii, 1940 ), and is managed as such in Russia.

NBC had earlier demonstrated an inter-city television broadcast on February 1, 1940, from its station in New York City to another in Schenectady, New York by General Electric relay antennas, and began transmitting some programs on an irregular basis to Philadelphia and Schenectady in 1941.

The supposed cause for murdering Jews was that in 1940 some Jews welcomed the Soviet takeover as liberation.

Although the detail of this story is disputed by some historians, Jung himself discussed an Oxford Group member, who may have been the same person, in talks given around 1940.

Despite Finnish resistance, a peace treaty was signed in March 1940, wherein Finland ceded some key territory to the Soviet Union, including the Karelian Isthmus, containing Finland's second-largest city, Viipuri, and the critical defensive structure of the Mannerheim Line.

As planned, the exposition left behind a fairground and numerous public buildings and public works ; some credit it with revitalizing Seattle's economic and cultural life ( see History of Seattle since 1940 ).

In September 1940 the German Reichskommissar Josef Terboven formed a cabinet with himself presiding, and with most ministers recruited among members of Quisling's Nazi party, plus some independent collaborators.

The story was first published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1940, before any nuclear reactors had ever been built, and for its appearance in the 1946 anthology The Best of Science Fiction, Heinlein made some modifications to reflect how a reactor actually worked.

Some of the impressive sea-battle footage was taken from The Sea Hawk ( 1924 ) ( not to be confused with Flynn's 1940 film of the same name, though some of the footage was also reused in the initial sea battle scene ).

Sławomir Rawicz claimed in his book The Long Walk, published in 1956, that as he and some others were crossing the Himalayas in the winter of 1940, their path was blocked for hours by two bipedal animals that were doing seemingly nothing but shuffling around in the snow.

RWH had been providing a mixed ( some cryptic clues ) puzzle since 1940.

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.

At some point, the studio wanted Brian Aherne for the male lead, and Joel McCrea, Madeleine Carroll and Paulette Goddard were under consideration as of July 1940, but in August 1940 Fred MacMurray and Madeleine Carroll were announced as co-stars.

Amid growing discontent from the Algerian population, the Third Republic ( 1871 – 1940 ) acknowledged some demands, and the Popular Front initiated the Blum-Viollette proposal in 1936 which was supposed to enlighten the Indigenous Code by giving French citizenship to a small number of Muslims.

The majority of the Polish soldiers and some Polish civilians who failed to evacuate from France after the German victory in 1940 as well as one Polish pilot shot down over France, one of many Polish pilots flying for RAF, did join the French Résistance.

In 1940 due to general Soviet policy, a Cyrillic alphabet eventually became common and has remained so to this day, though some Kyrgyz still use the Arabic alphabet.

When Kyrgyzstan became independent following the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, there was a popular idea among some Kyrgyz people to make transition to the Latin alphabet ( taking in mind a version closer to the Turkish alphabet, not the original alphabet of 1928 – 1940 ), but the plan was never implemented.

Between 26 May and 4 June 1940, some 330, 000 Allied troops escaped from the Germans at Dunkirk.

Between 1940 and 1944, the Germans executed some one hundred French resistance fighters there.

They are believed to have died around this time, though some sources claim they survived until 1940, living in seclusion in Italy.

Her first solo exhibition, " What a Farm Wife Painted ", opened October 1940 at Otto Kallir's New York City gallery Galerie St. Etienne, followed by a meet-and-greet with the artist and an exhibition of 50 paintings at Gimbel's Department Store November 15, followed by a third solo show in as many months, at the Whyte Gallery, Washington, D. C. " Gimbels had supplemented Moses ' art display with a table beneath the paintings spread samples of Grandma's culinary talents — homebaked bread, rolls and cake, plus some of the preserves which won her prizes at the county fair.

When it became apparent that a return to London was possible, the School returned to the city and was temporarily housed for some months in 1940 – 41 in eleven rooms at Broadway Court, 8 Broadway, London SW1.

In order to enter at a talent competition at University High School, Berry and Torrence helped form a doo-wop group known as " The Barons " ( named after their high school's Hi-Y club, where they were members ), which comprised fellow University High students William " Chuck " Steele ( lead singer ), Arnold P. " Arnie " Ginsburg ( born November 19, 1939 ) ( 1st tenor ), Wallace S. " Wally " Yagi ( born 20 July 1940 ) ( 2nd tenor ), John ' Sagi " Seligman ( 2nd tenor ), with Berry singing bass, and Torrence providing falsetto.

* The Wimsey Papers, published between Nov. 1939 and Jan. 1940 in The Spectator Magazine — a series of mock letters by members of the Wimsey family, being in effect fictionalised commentaries on life in England at the inception of the war.

It was continued in May 1940 when Germany launched AB-Aktion, More than 16, 000 members of the intelligentsia were murdered in Operation Tannenberg alone.

For many party members, he represented an " interim " choice, as Morínigo had been for the Liberals in 1940.

By the time the war began, the number of members rose to 250, 000, and the Waffen-SS was formed in August 1940, expanding the earlier armed SS troops who had fought in Poland and France in 1939 – 40, to serve alongside the Wehrmacht, Germany's regular armed forces.

In the United States, Llewellyn won the National Book Award for favourite novel of 1940, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association.

Thanks in part to its success in organizing labor unions and its early opposition to fascism, the Communist Party of the United States ( CPUSA ) increased its membership through the 1930s, reaching a peak of about 75, 000 members in 1940 – 41.

In the U. S., Llewellyn won the National Book Award for favourite novel of 1940, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association.

Following the Battle of France, General Charles de Gaulle formed the 1ère Compagnie d ’ Infanterie de l ’ Air in September 1940 from members of the Free French forces who had escaped to Britain.

Shachtman and Burnham's tendency resigned from the International in early 1940, alongside almost 40 % of the SWP's members, many of whom became founder members of the Workers Party.

At the beginning of 1940, the Selbstschutz was disbanded and its members transferred to various units of the SS and German police.

In הכהנים והלוים HaKohanim vHaLeviim ( 1940 ), The Priests and the Levites, he stressed that members of these groups exist in the realm between history ( below ) and redemption ( above ), and must act in a unique way to help move others to prayer and action, and help bring an end to suffering.

Memorial to members of the Royal Norwegian Navy, Army and Merchant Marine in Halifax Regional Municipality | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on the flag plaza outside the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. On June 7, 1940 13 ships, five aircraft and 500 men from the Royal Norwegian Navy followed the King to the United Kingdom and continued the fight from bases there until the war ended.

The Grange, which helped sponsor 1976 Bicentennial events, was organized at the Town Hall on July 17, 1940 with 96 members.

In his writings, especially in his book, HaKohanim vHaLeviim, The Priests and the Levites ( New York: 1940 ), he stressed that members of these groups exist in the realm between history ( below ) and redemption ( above ), and were called upon to take leading roles in a call to prayer, repentance, and action that would help bring an end to suffering.

Charles Workman was indicted in New Jersey on March 27, 1940, for the October 23, 1935, murder of Dutch Schultz and three members of his gang.

RCA built just such a system in order to present the first electronically scanned color television demonstration on February 5, 1940, privately shown to members of the US Federal Communications Commission at the RCA plant in Camden, New Jersey.

A number of staff members produced ' genetic and race science certificates of descent ' ( erb-und rassenkundliche Abstammungsgutachten ) for the ' Official Expert for Race Research ' ( Sachverständiger für Rassenforschung ), Achim Gercke, and from March 1935 on for the ' Reich Office for Genealogical Research ( Reichsstelle für Sippenforschung ), renamed in November 1940 to the ' Reich Ancestry Office ' ( Reichssippenamt ) in the Reich Ministry of the Interior.

It was a grand coalition including all major parties, only excluding the pro-Stalinist Communist Party and the pro-Nazi Socialist Party, both parties being members of the parliament as late as 1940.

In May 1940, 800 NSB members and sympathizers were put in custody by the Dutch government, after the German invasion.

The 1940 / 1942 Decca Porgy and Bess recording with members of the original cast was included by the National Recording Preservation Board in the Library of Congress, National Recording Registry in 2003.

After Mohr married in 1937, she was required to resign her position ( the BDM required members to be unmarried and without children in order to remain in leadership positions ), and was succeeded by Dr. Jutta Rüdiger, a doctor of psychology from Düsseldorf, who was a more assertive leader than Mohr but nevertheless a close ally of Schirach, and also of his successor from 1940 as HJ leader, Artur Axmann.

José Manuel Cortina and other members of the Cuban Constitutional Convention of 1940 eliminated the Platt Amendment from the new Cuban Constitution.