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An oil tanker is released from a lock on the Erie Canal, N.Y., Sept. 4, 1947 as a workman at left operates the gates. (AP Photo)

An eastbound tanker, in foreground, prepares to pass a westbound one, background, after being released from a lock in the Erie Canal, N.Y., Sept. 4, 1...

This is an air view of a barge being loaded at the grain elevator in Oswego, N.Y., at the Lake Ontario terminal of the Oswego Canal, Sept. 4, 1947. B...

A general view of the Erie Canal below Little Falls, N. Y., seen Sept. 4, 1947, with boats moving busily both east and westbound. (AP Photo)

A tight fit makes the oil barge look like part of the canal as it is locked through the Erie, Sept. 4, 1947. In the distance, the next lock to be neg...

Flash Sebastian, (right), and Ray Robinson, (left), welterweight boxing champion, shake hands after weighing in at the New York State Athletic Commiss...

Babe Ruth, right, and John Van Hoose proudly display their medals as Sports Father of the Year and Worker Father of the Year, respectively, presented...

Unless fishing or golfing is planned, Babe Ruth spends his afternoons lounging in Miami Beach, Florida as seen here, May 22, 1947. (AP Photo/Earl Shug...

Babe Ruth managed a smile when he arrived in Miami by plane for a two-week stay of rest and fishing, April 8, 1947. With the former Sultan of Swat ar...

Benson Ford, a director of the Ford Motor Co., holds a match to Babe Ruth's cigar at the Astoria Hotel in New York City, April 7, 1947, when the annou...

Marcel Cerdan; left, with Eddie Eagan, boxing commissioner, center, and Harold Green in New York, on March 28, 1947. Fighters are wearing the new...

President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, second from left, shown with two of his cabinet members, two of his sons and his secretary, Louis M. Howe, on t...

Customers buy low-wattage elctric light bulbs in the Woolworth's store in Oxford Street, London, Feb. 11, 1947, in response to the Prime Minister's ap...

Arthur Rodzinsk, the Maestro instructs the orchestra to build up its tone to a higher pitch on Feb. 6, 1947 in New York. (AP Photo)

The battle between the New York Philharmonic-Symphony society and its musical director flared again yesterday ending, for the time being, when the Boa...

This is a general view of the Army's task force Williwaw camp on Alaska's Adak Island, shown Feb. 3, 1947, with Mount Moffett in background. The Quons...

A Siberian husky, Lady, poses for her picture with Cpl. Roland Doncess at the Bivouac area of Task Force Frigid near Fairbanks, Alaska, Jan. 27, 1947....

Radio Commentator Walter Winchell shown in 1947. (AP Photo)

Workers of the Black Diamond Mine at Monongahela, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 18, 1946, wait for a trolley after walking off their jobs, in premature observ...

Soviet ambassador to France, Vyacheslav Molotov, is pictured smoking a cigarette with his wife Madam Bogomolov, at the gala evening given for the peac...

"Give me Liberty or give me death" Patrick Henry's words in Virginia convention March 23, 1775. American Revolution (AP Photo)

Wearing uniform of Army Brigadier General, Juan Domingo Peron (center) takes oath as 29th President of Argentina in Buenos Aires, on June 4, 1946 befo...

Col. Fulgencio Batista, left, former president of Cuba, talks with Dr. Fernando de los Rios, leader of the exiled Spanish Republican government, at Ne...

El Cabildo, the original town hall of Buenos Aires, on March 7, 1946, where the Argentines first discussed separation from the Spanish Crown. (AP Phot...

General view of the Miyako Hotel in Kyoto one of the few big cities in Japan which was unharmed by the air raids, Jan. 26, 1946, Kyoto, Japan. (AP Pho...

Fulgencio Batista, president of Cuba, greets his new bride, Marta Fernandez de Batista, as she arrives at Pennsylvania Station in New York, Dec. 5, 1...

Photo shows Ray Lumpp New York basketball player shown in 1946. (AP Photo)

Bill Pearson, He's the leading jockey at the Hopodromo De Les Americas with 16 winners, four seconds, and two thirds in the first six days of the new...

Some boys play on an unidentifiable object in Poznan, Poland, Oct. 26, 1945. (AP Photo/Larry Allen)

Mayor Fiorella Laguardia (left) assists President Juan Antonio Rios of Chile (behind sign) in inserting a new name plate in a lamp-post bracket during...

President Juan Antonio Rios of Chile (center), places a new sign on a former Sixth Avenue sign-post at W. 41st street in New York City on Oct. 20, 194...

This is part of the Argentine crowd of between 20,000 and 30,000 persons which gathered in front of the Government Palace, Plaza Mayo, in Buenos Aires...

German civilian prisoners captured by the patriots in Warsaw during the uprising are shown, Aug. 13, 1945. (AP Photo)

German prisoners taken after the capture of the Telephone Exchange by the Polish Home Army Aug. 13, 1945 in Warsaw. The Nazis fought bitterly for this...

The base from which India was to have been conquered a year ago feel to British and Indian troops of the 5th Indian corps early in January. After the...

Major General Fulgencio Batista, former president of Cuba, arrived July 27, 1945 in New Orleans. (AP Photo)

Picture taken 15th of July when Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. Supremex Allied commander, South East Asia, paid a flying visit to Rangoon, Burma, on...

At 3. o?clock, Tuesday May 8th 1945, the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, broadcast to the world that the war with Germany has been won. Pho...

In this April 29,1945 file photo Italian dictator Benito Mussolini hung by his heels in at a petrol station in Milan for public viewing and confirmat...

In this April 29,1945 file photo of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini hung by his heels in at a petrol station in Milan for public viewing and confi...

American and Russian officers gather in a tight group on the bank of the Elbe River, Germany, May 3, 1945, following the historic link-up between U.S....

A group of Russian soldiers who met the Americans on the other side of the Elbe, Germany, on April 27, 1945. A burning building can be seen in the bac...

Fred Strozier shows former Cuban President Fulgencio Batista how pictures moves on AP's WirePhoto, April 6, 1945, in Havana. (AP Photo/Murray Becker)

General Fulgencio Batista, former president of Cuba, his wife Marta Fernandez de Batista, and their 11-year-old son Fulgencio, Jr., arrives in New Yor...

Gen. Fulgencio Batista, third from right, former president of Cuba, lays a wreath at Lincoln's tomb in Springfield, Illinois., March 26, 1945. Batist...

Former Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, center, hears the latest news of turmoil in his homeland from an Associated Press dispatch read by Dr. Aurel...

Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, supreme allied commander in Southeast Asia, addresses an audience of men of the British 14th army, somewhere in Burma,...

German stormtrooper units listen to an address by Col. Gen. Heinz Guderian, Chief of German general staff, in Poznan, Poland, Jan. 23, 1945, in this p...

This birdseye view of President Roosevelt's unprecedented fourth term inaugural ceremony was made from the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., Ja...

Weary American infantrymen of the Mars Task Force take advantage of a rest period and stretch out prone after a difficult night march behind Japanese...