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Motorist Irving Gilbert squeezes every drop he can from the gas pump at a station in New York, May 15, 1942, the first day of gas rationing on the eas...

Firemen help shaken passengers from a derailed elevated car, center, after a freak accident at the south edge of Chicago's Loop, May 13, 1942. The de...

The line to apply for gasoline rationing cards is seen outside of Julia Richmond High School on East 51st Street in New York, May 12, 1942. (AP Photo...

Thousands of automobile owners jammed city elementary schools in Atlanta to register for gasoline rationing cards that will permit them to buy their q...

Plastic products shown here; a set of knives and forks, a small pitcher, an egg slicer and a juicer, are displayed at the Lewis and Conger Ingenuity S...

Kay McIntyre sits on a chair made of glass and exhibits a pillow stuffed with milkweed instead of kapok at the Lewis and Conger

White haired Jo Zach Miller , Jr, one of the Southwest 's Richest Men, has Lent Billion of Dollars in his79 years and never lost a penny of it, but fo...

Rockets roll past during the annual May Day Parade in Moscow's Red Square, May 1, 1942. The display of troops, carriers, tanks and rockets, none of th...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown during an address to the nation in which he asserted that the price of retaining our civilization

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown during an address to the nation in which he asserted that the price of retaining our civilization

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown during an address to the nation in which he asserted that the price of retaining our civilization

On the Eastern front German infantryman is digging a hole in the ground to escape Russian gunfire April 14, 1942. (AP Photo)

Just off the train from winter quarters in Florida, camels and zebras make their west on East 49th Street to Madison Square Garden in New York, April...

Just off the train from winter quarters in Florida, camels cross Fifth Avenue on their way to Madison Square Garden for the season's opening of the Ri...

The windshield sticker bearing the message

New Minister of Poland Miroslaw Arciszewski makes a telephone call after arriving in New York on March 16, 1942. (AP Photo)

Hedy Lamarr tries pigtails for the first time in the leading role of

Private Joe Louis, still the world's heavyweight champ, gets a big hand from fellow soldiers at Camp Dix, N.J. Maroh 10, 1942 after a workout in the...

On a thirty day furloug from Camp Upton, New York, heavyweight champion Joe Louis arrived at Fort Dix, New Jersey, March 4, 1942 to begin training for...

A German soldier inspects the battlefield with dead English soldiers lying on the ground at the bay of the port city St. Nazarie, Normandie, France, A...

Sailors and marines line up at Rockfeller Plaza for a ceremony commemorating the gallant defense of Wake Island against the Japanese and inaugurating...

Attending the dinner of the Cuban Chamber of Commerce in honor of Sumner Welles, Under Secretary of State, at the Waldorf Astoria in New York, Feb. 16...

Frederick E. Hasler, President of The Pan America Society, Sumner Welles (center), Under Secretary of State., Lawrence Berenson, Pres. of the Cuban C...

A street scene is shown in Singapore, Feb. 16, 1942. (AP Photo)

A street scene looking from the Adelphi Hotel and towards the river is shown in Singapore, Feb. 16, 1942. (AP Photo)

A boat rides on a river in Singapore, Feb. 16, 1942. (AP Photo)

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General Lazaro Cardenas at his desk studying maps, Feb. 4, 1942. He commands all the Mexican troops in Baja California. (AP Photo/Frank Filan)

Eighty thousand Puerto Ricans, of the 2,000,00 on the island, are cane cutters, shown here on Feb. 2, 1942. These men, who currently earn $1.51 a day,...

Yet Boon Lung, the Chinese dragon of evil, burns to cinders in the courtyard of China City in Los Angeles, Feb. 2, 1942, during Chinese New Year celeb...

Junior air raid messengers of the Home Thrift Association in the Yorkville section of Manhattan in New York City, gather around as Jerome Bingham, the...

In Rudi's and Maxl's Brau-Haus on East 86th Street in Yorkville, a German neighborhood on New York's Upper East Side, Minnie Erb, who shares ownership...

Many of Singapore's famous buildings are identified in this picture of the city's waterfront, Jan. 15, 1942. The northermost islands of Dutch Rhio Arc...

Manager Lester Patrick, left, of the New York Rangers, consoles defensemen Ott Heller, in the Rangers' dressing room in Madison Square Garden, after H...

A regular Army Sentry, bundled against cold, walks his post in New York, January 7, 1942. (AP Photo)

A bomb-blasted site near St. Paul's Cathedral in London, May 7, 1942. (AP Photo)

Soviet Maxim ambassador to the U.S. Maximovich Litvinov, left, is pictured after arriving in the USA after alighting from a clipper with his wife Ivy...

Soviet ambassador Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, right, sits in front of a Lenin statue as he gives his first press conference after beeing appointed as n...

Soviet ambassador Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, arrives at the White House, Washington D.C., USA for conferences with FDR and Churchill December 27, 1941...

After nearly four years in Japanes hands, Hong Kong, British Crown Colony since 1842, was relleved by a task force from the British Pacific Fleet unde...

Seated side by side behind the president's desk in the White House Executive office, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winst...

Early arrivals waiting outside the army recruiting headquarters at the Federal Building in New York where they filed applications for enlistment Dec....

Soviet ambassador Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, third from left carrying briefcase, arrives at San Francisco's Treasure Island, USA, escorting him up the...

Battle ship Arizona at pearl Harbor, December 1941. The photo was taken shortley after the battleship was bombed and destroyed during the surprise att...

University of Texas' Stanley Mauldin is seen, 1942. (AP Photo)

University of Texas' Stanley Mauldin is seen, 1942. (AP Photo)

University of Texas' Stanley Mauldin is seen, 1942. (AP Photo)

One of the ten vessels the Ford Motor Company's fleet which have been assigned to haul national defense cargo, was launched November 29, 1941. Five...

Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt starts to carve the turkey the Saturday after Thanksgiving, Nov. 29, 1941, at Warm Springs, Ga., at an informal dinner....

A group of pupils at the Bailey-Gatzert School, which is attended mainly by Japanese-American childern, sing