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Lou Meyer, the first three-time winner of the Indy 500, is shown on May 16, 1938. Meyer won the Indianapolis 500 race in 1938, 1933 and 1936. (AP Ph...

This is a general view and skyline of Philadelphia, Pa., May 13, 1938. The building at left foreground is the Philadelphia Museum of Art overlooking...

Dr. James Franck, appointed professor of physical chemistry at the University of Chicago, is shown on May 11, 1938. Franck shared the 1925 Nobel Priz...

Herbert M. Woolf, left, of Kansas City poses with his prize-winning three-year-old Lawrin, with jockey Eddie Arcaro on, after a victory in the Kentuck...

The French Line luxury steamer

Theatrical producer Jed Harris is shown in New York City on May 3, 1938. Harris is producer of the 1938 Pulitzer prizewinning play

Henry Ford, left, stands with Orville Wright in front of the transported bicycle shop in which Wright and his brother constructed the heavier-than-air...

A new fence separates Broadway from Seventh Ave. between 43rd and 45th Streets at Times Square in midtown Manhattan, April 14, 1938. The New York Cit...

A squadron of German warplanes fly in formation over South Germany during maneuvers in April 1938. The low-wing Junkers, marked with the Nazi swastik...

With tractor and grader, workers tear into a hummock of sand built on farm land affected by the Dust Bowl in Colorado, March 25, 1938. Leveling off t...

After announcing the

A formation of German Police is seen entering the Austrian city of Imst on March 12, 1938, as Austria is incorporated into Germany as part of the Thir...

This March 7, 1938 photo shows a general view on the intersection of Western Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)

Water fills the city of Venice after a five-day flood in southern California on March 5, 1938. The overpasses, lower left, and bridges, right center,...

A British Royal Air Force (RAF) Hawker hurricane monoplane is shown during formation practice at Northolt, Middlesex, England, on March 4, 1938. (AP...

The extensive oil field in Ventura, Calif., is deep under rushing water after Ventura River went over its bank during the height of the floods on Marc...

British Navy battle cruiser HMS Repulse, in foreground, and HMS Hood, background, are shown in manoeuvres in March 1938. (AP Photo)

Visitors paddle in canoes on the flooded Cypress Gardens near Charleston, N.C., to view rare flowers and marine life in March 1938. Once a year the w...

A Red Cross Emergency Relief Station set up at Fulton, Ark., distributes rations to scores of refugees from the lowlands hit by a record Red River flo...

This aerial view shows the bridge at San Joaquin City over the San Joaquin River on Feb. 14, 1938. Crumbling levees on the Stanislaus River permitted...

Workers fill bags with sand to repair levees along the river near Sacramento, Ca., Feb. 11, 1938. Levees were broken when high gales swept northern C...

A formation of Swordfish Torpedo bombers from RAF Gosport fly over the Royal Navy's warship HMS Manchester near Spithead, England, in Feb. 1938. (AP...

This is a general view of a house bombed and ruined during Gen. Francisco Franco's Nationalist air force air raid in Barcelona, Spain, Jan. 30, 1938....

The new Edison Tower of light stands where Thomas Edison invented the incandescent lamp more than 50 years ago in Menlo Park, N.J., Jan. 7, 1938. The...

Prof. Julian Huxley holds a flying opposum for his students during a lecture on rare animals and the disappearance of wildlife at the Royal Institutio...

This is a general view of spectators watching a boxing match in the crowded Hollywood Legion Stadium in Los Angeles, Ca., in 1938. (AP Photo)

Marlene Dietrich is shown in Jan. 1938. The location is not known. (AP Photo)

Finnish composer Jean Sibelius is shown in Finland in Jan. 1938. (AP Photo)

Recruits in the Works Progress Administration lay a sidewalk in Perth Amboy, N.J., 1938, as part of a nationwide effort to put relief recipients to wo...

German composer and conductor Richard Strauss, 74, is photographed in his garden at his country home at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, in 1938. (AP...

A Sudeten woman is seen as she salutes the triumphant Nazi German dictator Hitler in 1938, after the Sudentenland was ceded to Germany as part of the...

Joseph Goebbels, German propaganda minister, left, is shown with two of his children, Hilde, 3, left, and Helga, 5, and others during a Christmas part...

This is a view of Pittsburgh's low-lying north side section flooded with water as the Allegheny River reached its peak at 27.3 feet and started fallin...

Actress Greta Garbo, sporting a new hairstyle and hair color, is shown during interview with reporters aboard a ship arriving in Gothenburg, Sweden, D...

Josephine Baker, dancer with the Paris Folies-Bergere, wearing a ski suit, dances with her husband, Jean Lion, at a

Japanese soldiers cheer as they hoist their flag from the roof of the central government building after they seized Nanking in the Second Sino Japanes...

English writers W.H. Auden, left, Christopher Isherwood, center, and Cecil Day Lewis pose at the Sunday Times book exhibition of

Newlyweds Betty Grable and Jackie Coogan cut their wedding cake in Los Angeles, Ca., Nov. 20, 1937. (AP Photo)

Members of the United States Supreme Court of Justice pose in their robes in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 18, 1937. Seated, from left, are, Justice Geor...

Anti-Nazi picketers stand in front of the New York office of Mike Jacobs, promoter of the upcoming fight of German Max Schmeling, on Nov. 17, 1937. (...

Chinese soldiers are forced to flee as Japanese troops invade Nantao near Shanghai, China, Nov. 11, 1937. The Chinese made their way through to safe...

Chinese soldiers climb the barrier wall of the French Concession to escape capture by the Japanese who invaded Nantao near Shanghai, Nov. 11, 1937, du...

Italian Premier-dictator Benito Mussolini reviews troops before the national Italian monument in honor of the 68th birthday of King Victor Emmanuel in...

Chinese prisoners are roped together and taken to the rear by their Japanese captors at Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Nov. 1937. (AP...

A young Chinese fighter in Chiang Kai Shek's army is shown with a bayonet rifle and hand grenades on his vest in Chapei, China, Nov. 1937 during the S...

A Blackshirt, who lost both hands fighting in Spain, salutes Premier-dictator Benito Mussolini after receiving a medal at the Tomb of the Italian Unkn...

Race car driver Capt. George Eyston is shown after engine trouble prevented him from trying a new record after covering one-way at 309.6 miles-per-hou...

This is a general view of Shanghai, looking towards Chapei, after fleeing Chinese fired at buildings as they retreated when Japanese forces entered Ch...

A Japanese bomb drops on brick houses in Chapei on the edge of the International settlement, along which American and British troops are on defence du...

Kosher butchers picket outside a shop in the heart of a Jewish neighborhood on Orchard Street in New York's Lower East Side, Oct. 4, 1937. They are p...