AP Historical Hard Drive 2001

This new dining car is one of the first to be delivered for the streamlined Twentieth Century Limited, the New York Central train on the New York-Chic...

U.S. Olympic team member Alice Coachman arrives from London on the U.S.S. Washington into New York City on Aug. 27, 1948. Coachman became the first bl...

Joanne Jutkins demonstrates the Jiffy Java vending machine using the dial to buy a cup of coffee with cream at the first annual All Electrical Exposit...

Elevated railway tracks that encircle the downtown area are surrounded by department store buildings in Chicago, Ill., on Aug. 16, 1948. The L train...

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers sign autographs in character during filming of a studio set in Hollywood, Ca., on Aug. 11, 1948. (AP Photo)

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are shown in character on a studio set in Hollywood, Ca., Aug. 11, 1948. (AP Photo)

Zoe Ann Olsen, of Oakland, Ca., U.S.A., executes a dive during the compulsory dives in the women's springboard championship at Empire pool, Wembley, L...

Mal G. Whitfield, U.S.A., is photographed with his Olympic gold medal after victory in the final of the 800-meter run at the XIV Summer Olympic Games...

Mal Whitfield, U.S.A., leads as runners round the bend in the final men's 800-meter race at the XVI Summer Olympic Games at Wembley Stadium in London,...

Micheline Ostermeyer practices the shot put in this August 2, 1948 unlocated photo. Ostermayer won gold medals in the shot put and discus throw in the...

Fred Astaire is shown in character in the movie

This is an August 1948 photo the first Prime Minister of Israel David Ben Gurion stands up to speak during a session of the new Israeli government. To...

Josephine Baker smiles and waves as she and her husband, French orchestra leader Jo Bouillon, leave the Termini Station in Rome, Italy, on July 18, 19...

South Carolina Governor, Strom Thurmond, raises his hands over his head in response to a tumultuous ovation accorded him by delegates to the Dixiecrat...

A German worker unloads a bag of flour from a U.S. Air Force C-47 at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, Germany, June 28, 1948 during the Berlin Airlift in...

Television comedian-actor Sid Caesar poses in New York City on June 25, 1948. (AP Photo)

President Harry S. Truman gestures as he addresses a crowd of about 2,000 in Columbus, Ohio, on June 17, 1948. Looking on, left, is Columbus Mayor Ja...

Margaret Osborne DuPont, of Wilmington, Del., is shown in action during her match with Jean Bostock, of Britain, at Wimbledon, England, on June 11, 19...

American actress Katharine Hepburn sits on a chair in her cabin shortly before sailing for a European vacation aboard the Nieuw Amsterdam from New Yor...

The men accused of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi listen to testimony in a courtroom during their arraignment in New Delhi, India, on May 27, 194...

George Dasch talks to reporters on May 11, 1948 in Frankfurt, Germany as he tells about his mission of sabotage in the United States. (AP Photo/Gerh...

This general view shows the Hell's Kitchen Art Gallery decorated in bunting for an opening of works by Johann Pogrezba as people wait in line to enter...

The 1949 Lincoln Cosmopolitan sedan is shown on April 8, 1948. (AP Photo)

This interior view shows the new stained glass windows in the House of Lords at the British Houses of Parliament in London, England in April 1948. Th...

Biologist and zoologist Dr. Alfred Charles Kinsey poses in New York City on March 18, 1948. (AP Photo)

Father Edward J. Flanagan, right, founder of Boys Town, Neb., visits Lt. Gen. Geoffrey Keyes, Commander of U.S. Forces in Austria, at Gen. Keyes' head...

New York Fashion designer Norman Norell arrives in New York City on the USS America on Feb. 26, 1948. (AP Photo)

Golfer Sam Snead, of Hot Springs, Va., gives a few pointers to his three-year-old son, Sam Jr., at the New Orleans, La., Open golf tournament, Feb. 19...

Waders and boaters head toward the confluence of the Ganges and Jumna Rivers following the immersion of the ashes of Mahatma Gandhi at Allahabad, Indi...

Gretchen Fraser of Vancouver, Wash., smiles after winning the Olympic women's special slalom event at St. Moritz, Switzerland on Feb. 5, 1948. (AP P...

A barefoot Mahatma Gandhi, wearing his white loin cloth and shawl, is assisted at the Mohammedan Shrine in New Delhi, India, Jan. 27, 1948. Three days...

Ted Williams is shown playing golf in Miami, Fl. on Jan. 24, 1948. (AP Photo)

India's leader Mahatma Gandhi, 78, is carried from his main house to the Garden area after breaking a five-day fast in New Delhi, India on Jan. 21, 19...

Kowloon squatters gather around burnt remaines of once occupied homes in Hong Kong on Jan. 21, 1948. Hong Kong demolition squads tore down the Kowloo...

Norman Norell, American fashion designer, talks with Helena Rubinstein, head of cosmetic firm, aboard the SS America as they sail from New York on Jan...

A soldier points at the damaged brick wall outside Birla House in New Delhi, India, on Jan. 20, 1948. A home-made bomb was set off by a young Hindu r...

Actor Humphrey Bogart, lighting cigarette, actress Lauren Bacall, massaging her husband's head, and cameraman Karl Freund relax on the set of

The East 34th Street station of the Third Avenue Line El is shown looking east in New York City, 1948. (AP Photo/Daniel Grossi)

A customer is seen at the change booth from the Third Avenue Line El platform at the East 53rd Street station in New York City in 1948. (AP Photo/Dan...

This is a 1948 view looking north under the Third Avenue Line El tracks at East 53rd Street in New York City. (AP Phot/Dan Grossi)

This view, taken from the bridge crossing over the East 34th Street station, looks north over the Third Avenue Line El train in New York City in 1948....

A pot belly stove is located inside the entrance of the East 53rd Street station of the Third Avenue El train in New York City in 1948. (AP Photo/Dan...

Soviet soldiers are led by a saber saluting officer in a parade through Red Square in Moscow to celebrate the anniversary of the Red Revolution in 194...

West Berlin children perched on the fence of Tempelhof airport watch the fleets of U.S. airplanes bringing in supplies in 1948 to circumvent the Russi...

Mahatma Gandhi, wrapped in his white shawl, sits before a microphone to deliver a prayer meeting discourse in New Delhi, India, in Jan. 1948. It is G...

The backside of the Nobel Peace Medal of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway, is shown in Dec. 1947. The backside of the medal features thr...

Detective novelist (Samuel) Dashiell Hammett, author of

A woman, wearing a sari, and a young man are seen in the veranda of the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi in Porbandar, in the west coast of Gujarat, India...

Howard Hughes' 800-ton, 210-foot-long flying boat with an eight story-tall tail section, nicknamed the

German-born writer, Berthold Brecht, is shown as he appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in Washington, D.C., on October 30, 194...