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"Spruce Goose," the 200-ton, eight-story-tall flying boat belonging to millionaire Howard Hughes, is shown during the one time it ever flew, Nov. 2, 1...

Actor Larry Parks points out spot for Ring Lardner, Jr., center, recently cited for contempt of Congress, to sign his name on a petition to abolish th...

Millionaire aviator and industrialist Howard Hughes looks over the multi-metered engineer's panel of his huge flying boat at Los Angeles Harbor, Oct....

This picture, showing the manufacture of a gold brooch, was made in the plant of the Shiman Manufacutre Co., Newark, N.J., manufactures of gold jewelr...

Millionaire aviator and industrialist Howard Hughes looks over the multi-metered engineer's panel of his huge flying boat at Los Angeles Harbor, Oct....

Dalton Trumbo, left, Hollywood screenwriter, shouts from the witness stand as he tries to make a statement before the House Un-American Activities Com...

Dalton Trumbo, center, dark suit, Hollywood film writer is escorted from the witness stand by police Sgt. George Kaelber after he refused to tell the...

Dalton Trumbo, center, Hollywood screenwriter, leaves the House Un-American Activities Committee witness stand after refusing to say whether he is or...

John Howard Lawson, screenwriter; presses his face close to the microphone as he lashes out at the House Un-American Activities Committee in Washingto...

John Howard Lawson, right foreground, talks to newsmen after he was excused by the House Un-American Activities Committee and cited for contempt of Co...

This copper-plate engraved card, five by six inches, with the Royal Arms at top, is the official invitation to the November 20 wedding of Princess Eli...

Actor Robert Taylor testifies Oct. 22, 1947 in Washington, D.C., at a House Un -American Activities committee hearing investigating Communist activiti...

Appearing as one of the first witnesses before the Oct 23, 1947 session of the House Committee on Unamerican Activities is Fred Niblo, Jr., Hollywood...

Jack Warner of Warner Brothers Studio, Paul V. McNutt, chief counsel for the movie industry, and Louis B. Mayer of Metro-Goldwyn studio, (left to righ...

H.A. Smith (extreme left) and Rep.J.Parnell Thomas (R-NJ) (right centre) stand with hands upraised Oct, 20, 1947 as Smith, committee investigator, is...

This picture, showing the manufacture of a gold brooch, was made in the plant of the Shiman Manufacture Co., Newark, N.J., manufacturers of gold jewel...

Scaffolding rings the old Vanderbilt mansion at the Northwest corner of 51st Street and Fifth Avenue, as wreckers work indoors to demolish a familiar...

Assistant Security Chief Lawrence Low examines a electric eye cover on October 4, 1947 in Washington, D.C.

OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL: Otto Ambros, former committee member of the managing board of directors of the I.G. Farben Cemical Industries and production...

A man suffering from epileptic fits, one of the 445 passengers aboard the former LCT (landing craft tank)

Surrounded by British soldiers, a jewish youth assists a young girl, one of the 445 passengers aboard the former LCT (landing craft tank)

Frank J. Shea, New York Yankees righthander, throws a practice pitch in New York on Sept. 26, 1947. Shea, one of the outstanding mound rookies of the...

Cleveland Browns coach Paul Brown diagrams one of his pass plays on the blackboard in Cleveland on Sept. 26, 1947. (AP Photo)

Members of the Jewish community in Wroglaw, Poland, the former Breslau, Germany, gather around a newsstand and evince keen interest in the latest news...

The Fort Knox Gold vault, Fort Knox Kentucky, September 15, 1947. (AP Photo)

Image shows one of the three British transport ships docking at a pier in Hamburg, Germany, in the evening September 7, 1947 laden with Jewish emigran...

Image shows the British transport ship Ocean Vigour in the river Elbe delta near Cuxhaven, Germany, in the evening September 6, 1947 laden with Jewish...

Robert Lee

A Jew, right, trying to enter Italy illegally (on the first stage of his journey to Palestine by the

A group of Jewish illegal emigrants, who crossed the border from Austria to Italy (on the first stage of their journey to Palestine by the

A Jew, right, trying to enter Italy illegally (on the first stage of his journey to Palestine by the

A Jew, who gave his name as Anton Braunstein of Bucharest, raises his arms after beeing stopped trying to enter Italy illegally (on the first stage of...

OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL: The defendants of the I.G. Farben process sitting in the front row from left to right are: Carl Krauch, Hermann Schmitz, Geor...

OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL: Recess time during the court case against the officials of the I.G. Farben Cemical Industries. Defendants seen here during t...

OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL: The defendants of the I.G. Farben process sitting in the front row from left to right: Carl Krauch, Hermann Schmitz, Georg vo...

Two villagers in the Greek town of Levkohori, near the Bulgarian border, survey the wreckage after a raid by guerrillas on Aug. 19, 1947. Levkohori ha...

Sen. Harry Cain of Washington, facing camera and standing under propeller of

Sen. Harry Cain of Washington, right, and millionaire Howard Hughes talk underneath Hughes' $25,000,000 flying boat

Sen. Harry Cain of Washington, right, and millionaire Howard Hughes talk underneath Hughes' $25,000,000 flying boat

OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL: Fritz Ter Meer, former committee member of the managing board of directors of the I.G. Farben Cemical Industries pleads

OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL: Ernst Buergin, former committee member of the managing board of directors of the I.G. Farben Cemical Industries pleads

OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL: The defendants of the I.G. Farben process sitting in the front row from left to right are: Carl Krauch, Hermann Schmitz, Geor...

Otto Ambros, former chief of the Chemical Warfare Committee of the German Ministry of Armaments and War Production and defendant in the war crimes tri...

Denise Topp, left, hands three extra dollars to Marriage License Bureau clerk Peter Pitassi in Chicago, Ill., Aug. 13, 1947, at City Hall, after the c...

Argentine golfers Roberto De Vicenzo (left), PGA champion, and Open champ Henry Bertolino (center) watch the drive of Martin Pose, former PGA Open Cha...

Alex Wojciechowicz, center for the Philadelphia Eagles, August 10, 1947.(AP Photo)

Students in front of the mail library on the campus of Northwester University in Chicago, Ill., Aug 1,1947. (AP Photo/Edward Kitch)

Actor Cary Grant sails from New York aboard the Cunard White Star Liner Queen Elizabeth for England to arrange for reproduction there of some pictures...

August 1947 portrait of Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, made in the prison before the start of his trial in Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo)

Only a handful of the 4,500 illegal immigrants deported by three British vessels anchored at Port de Bouc, France, July 29, 1947 from Haifa, Palestin...