A portrait of Broadway in the early part of the 20th century and " The Great White Way " late at night appeared in " Artist In Manhattan "( 1940 ) written by the painter-writer Jerome Myers:

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

A New York writer sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma in late 1940 / early 1941 noted an "... Oklahoma version of shag done to the Western Swing music of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys at the Cain's Dancing Academy in Tulsa.

In June 1940, during the early stages of World War II, France fell and the colony was then ruled by the pro-Axis Vichy ( French ) government.

* 1940 – Childe Wills, early associate of Henry Ford, one of the first employees of the Ford Motor Company, and a contributor to the design of the Model T ( b. 1878 )

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.

In late 1939 he brought the Duke of Windsor back from self-impodsed exile in France and in early May 1940, Mountbatten led a British convoy in through the fog to evacuate the Allied forces participating in the Namsos Campaign during the Norwegian Campaign.

These included Things to Come ( 1936 ), Rembrandt ( 1936 ) and Knight Without Armour ( 1937 ), as well as the early Technicolor films The Drum ( 1938 ), The Four Feathers ( 1939 ) and The Thief of Bagdad ( 1940 ).

Movies of his such as 20, 000 Years in Sing Sing ( 1932 ) and Private Detective 62 ( 1933 ) are among the early Hollywood sound films arguably classifiable as noir — scholar Marc Vernet offers the latter as evidence that dating the initiation of film noir to 1940 or any other year is " arbitrary ".

In 1933 Wells predicted in The Shape of Things to Come that the world war he feared would begin January 1940, a prediction which ultimately came true just four months early, when the Second World War broke out in September 1939.

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.

There he repeated in a different form all that he had already said, for all the world as if he had a gramophone fixed in his brain ... When I took leave, he subjected me to an interminable handshake, meanwhile fixing his cold blue eyes on mine, and repeating almost word for word what he said to me on arrival ... I felt I should never be able to establish any human contact with this man " In early June 1940, when Mussolini informed Hitler that he at long last would enter the war on 10 June 1940, Hitler was most dismissive, in private calling Mussolini a cowardly opportunist who broke the terms of the Pact of Steel in September 1939 when the going looked rough, and was only entering the war in June 1940 after it was clear that France was beaten and it appeared that Britain would soon make peace.

An early 6 kW version, built in England by the General Electric Company Research Laboratories, Wembley, London ( not to be confused with the similarly named American company General Electric ), was given to the US government in September 1940.

In 1963, Bally developed the first fully electromechanical slot machine called Money Honey, although earlier machines such as the High Hand draw poker machine by Bally had exhibited the basics of electromechanical construction as early as 1940.

The German claim would be invalid because early in 1940 the Nazi government sold salvaging rights to the vessel to a Uruguayan businessman who was acting on behalf of the British government.

In 1940, during the early days of World War II, Pujol decided that he must make a contribution " for the good of humanity " ( and to oppose the Franco regime ) by helping Britain – which, with its Empire, was Germany's only adversary at the time.

early forms of the argument appeared as early as 1940.

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.

He was considered the early favorite for the nomination, but his support ebbed in the late spring of 1940, as World War II suddenly became much more dangerous for America.

Milk bars were known in the United States at least as early as 1940 as evidenced by contemporary radio recordings.

In a message sent to all officers in early 1940, Raeder exclaimed: " The great aim of the Führer has set forth for the German nation requires the utmost exertion in all places ... A navy which undertakes daring actions against the enemy and suffers losses through this will be reborn on an even larger scale.

The blooms of Ribes and of the willow and sloe are the places where large numbers of our early insects will assemble: honeybees, bumblebees, and other wild bees, and also various kinds of flies.

There was a garage and a modern barn in the rear, all of it standing between two large flat fields planted in early potatoes.

Some fragmentary walls of large, well-dressed blocks near this latter town indicate the early prosperity of Ambracia.

Between the restoration of London and the resumption of large scale Danish attacks in the early 890s, Alfred ’ s reign was rather uneventful.

Litters are born in the early summer and the parents raise the young in a large den.

It acquired its distinctive large crack sometime in the early 19th century — a widespread story claims it cracked while ringing after the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835.

Following Schubert's early death in 1828, Diabelli purchased a large portion of the composer's massive musical estate from Schubert's brother Ferdinand.

An early season in which Roma made a large mark was the 1930 – 31 championship, the club finished as runners-up behind Juventus.

They found the baptistry of the 6th century cathedral and large amounts of pottery dated to the 6th and 7th centuries AD ; in other words, the early Christian town.

Cuyp ( 1594 – 1651 / 52 ), he is especially known for his large views of the Dutch countryside in early morning or late afternoon light.

A large injection of external investment from both private and public sources has alleviated the economic difficulties of the early 1990s caused by global recession and persistently low commodity prices ( although the latter continues to affect the economy ).

The Makgadikgadi has been established as an early habitation area for primitive man ; This large seasonal wetland is composed of several large component pans, the largest being Nwetwe Pan, Sua Pan and Nxai Pan.

A period of large trade deficits and improper real estate investment hit Bulgaria hard during the late-2000s recession, resulting in a 5. 5 % GDP decline in that period, a rise in unemployment, and spending at least five quarters in its worst recession since the early 1980s.

The core ideas of the Big Bang — the expansion, the early hot state, the formation of helium, and the formation of galaxies — are derived from many observations that are independent from any cosmological model ; these include the abundance of light elements, the cosmic microwave background, large scale structure, and the Hubble diagram for Type Ia supernovae.

This meant the idea of one early large scale offensive could not bring about a knockout blow.

It is also significant that Germany ’ s position in the centre of Europe to a large extent obviated the need to make a clear distinction between bombers suitable only for ’ tactical ’ and those necessary for strategic purposes in the early stages of a likely future war.

By the early 20th century, Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia had achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire, but large parts of their ethnic populations remained under Ottoman rule.

In the early days of coin collecting — before the development of a large international coin market — extremely precise grades were not needed.

In 2003 a publication in Science received a large amount of press attention when it suggested that early humans may have practiced extensive cannibalism.

Phytoplankton recovery in the early Paleocene provided the food source to support large benthic foraminiferal assemblages, which are mainly detritus-feeding.

The early personages most cited for propounding composting within farming are for the German-speaking world Rudolf Steiner, founder of a farming method called biodynamics, and Annie Francé-Harrar, who was appointed on behalf of the government in Mexico and supported the country 1950 – 1958 to set up a large humus organization in the fight against erosion and soil degradation.

In early 2009 the company attracted further criticism for continuing plans to build the 162 in China while laying off large numbers of workers in the USA.

Some early sources refer to pall mall being played over a large distance ( as in golf ), however an image in Strutt's 1801 book clearly shows a croquet-like ground billiards game ( balls on ground, hoop, bats and peg ) being played over a, garden-sized distance.

In the US the first large scale use of cement was Rosendale cement a natural cement mined from a massive deposit of a large dolostone rock deposit discovered in the early 19th century near Rosendale, New York.