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Nevada Senator pinch hits for V.P. Garner in signing last minute bills. Washington, D.C., June 20. When Vice President Garner made his hasty departure from the Capitol shortly before Congress adjourned last week, he delegated Senator Key Pittman, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and President Pro Tem, to sign the last minute bills. The Nevada legislator is pictured at his desk today, 6/20/38

Nevada Senator pinch hits for V.P. Garner in signing last minute bills...

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Larry Gibson holding microphone for James Weekley who is demonstrating what could happen when a downpour hits a reclaimed mountain

Larry Gibson holding microphone for James Weekley who is demonstrating...

Medley of Broadway hits record label

Medley of Broadway hits record label

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Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. The powerful airship slides down the gangplank, hits the water, and the launching is completed. This is the Kingfisher Service type plane, technically termed the OS2-U3

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. The powerful airship slides dow...

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American editor is greatly surprised at Japanese sharp-shooter as he hits Kiulencheng [sic], Hoojo, Kuichow, Motienluig, Haicheng, & next Liaoyang

American editor is greatly surprised at Japanese sharp-shooter as he h...

Print shows an American journalist amazed at the marksmenship of a Japanese soldier at a shooting gallery. Signed on block by artist in lower left, includes chop. Descriptive information compiled by Nichibunke... More

Freak hail storm hits Capitol. Washington, D.C., April 29. A freak rain storm, bringing down pellets of hail as large as moth balls, descended on the Capitol today. The hail pellets pierced cloth auto tops as if they were made of paper-mache. Rep. Pat Boland of Pennsylvania, House Whip, is pictured as he dodged the hail stones on Capitol Hill, 4/29/38

Freak hail storm hits Capitol. Washington, D.C., April 29. A freak rai...

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Christmas 'spirits' rush hits Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Washington, D.C., Nov. 8. In anticipation of an unusual Christmas 'spirits' rush, the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing is now turning out 9,870,000 liquor stamps every day. Miss Florence Benland, Bureau employee, is pictured with the batch of liquor revenue stamps printed during her first hour of duty

Christmas 'spirits' rush hits Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Washin...

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Bureau of Standards designs mechanical batter to determine liveliness of baseballs. Washington, D.C., Feb. 21. Using a newly designed apparatus, the U.S. Bureau of Standards today began experiments to determine the relative home-run qualities of American, National and International baseballs. In conducting the tests a scientist pulls the trigger of an air gun loaded with a wooden projectile representing the slugger's bat. The projectile strikes a baseball causing it to fly toward a ballistic pendulum. After each of such hits the scientist takes a reading on the pendulum. It tells him how hard the ball hit the pendulum, or whether it was a homerun, a double, [...]st a pop fly. Dr. H.L. Dryden, Chief [...]e Division of Mechanics and Sound, Designed the machine and is supervising the tests. He is [...] right while on the left is Edward B. Eynon, Secretary of the Washington Baseball Club, 2/21/38

Bureau of Standards designs mechanical batter to determine liveliness ...

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Fort Benning. Bomber planes. An American bombardier in training at Fort Benning, Georgia makes accurate hits with practice bombs that will later be exchanged for the real "eggs for war."

Fort Benning. Bomber planes. An American bombardier in training at For...

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Harpoon hits humpback whale. The humpback whale has just been hit by the harpoon, and the bomb on the harpoon head has exploded. The gunner who fired the shot is shown in the foreground. The twisting of six-inch manila line attached to harpoon indicates the force of the impact

Harpoon hits humpback whale. The humpback whale has just been hit by t...

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Smoke shrouds the Signa Bridge. Another target for "Operation Strangle," the Signa Bridge, west of Florence, was smashed by direct hits from Mediterranean Allied Air Force bombers

Smoke shrouds the Signa Bridge. Another target for "Operation Strangle...

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Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. At the drinking foutain, the shop, on every bulletin board, the reminder to do something about seeking other transportation hits Don's eye

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. At the drinking foutain, the shop, on ev...

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Pearl Harbor bombing. After the fire. Battered by aerial torpedoes and bomb hits, the 31,800 ton USS West Virginia (nearest ship) rests on the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Fire following the explosions as well as oil flames from the nearby sunken USS Arizona added extensively to the damage. Noted the wrecked scout plane topside of gun turret at right and the overturned plane in the right hand corner. The battleship USS Tennessee is in the background

Pearl Harbor bombing. After the fire. Battered by aerial torpedoes and...

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Sea jeeps. This amphibian car hits the water with a splash during a try-out at the Ford Motor Company's Rouge plant. All of the cars are water-tested in this slip before they are turned over to the government for use on various war fronts

Sea jeeps. This amphibian car hits the water with a splash during a tr...

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An embryo fighter. Little Joseph B. Bovello, Jr., 3 years of age, is being taught the manly art of self defense by his father. He lives at 925 Farragut Street, Washington, D.C. His muscles are well developed and he hits with a stiff punch

An embryo fighter. Little Joseph B. Bovello, Jr., 3 years of age, is b...

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Hayes office General Counsel protests Neely Bill to regulate movie sales. Washington, D.C., April 3. Charles C. Pettijohn, general counsel for the Hayes office, movieland's self-censoring group, was on of the first witnesses before the Senate Interstate Commerce Subcommittee which heard actor Robert Montgomery this morning. Gesturing wildly, he eloquently pleaded against passage of Senator Neely's bill to prohibit 'block booking' and 'blind selling', movie trade practices which remove theater owner's choice in selecting his movie bill. He offered to bring Walt Disney before the Committee to prove the disastrous effects of the bill if made law, saying that the biggest hits are seldom expected by either producers or theater managers. General Hollywood expert opinion was that 'Snow white and the Seven Dwarfs' would never sell, he said. 4-3-39

Hayes office General Counsel protests Neely Bill to regulate movie sal...

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The deadly marksmanship of the United States Army Air Force bombers is graphically illustrated in this picture just received from North Africa. It shows direct hits on harbor warehouses and terminals and a pierhead at Sousse, the important Axis-held Mediterranean seaport in Tunisia

The deadly marksmanship of the United States Army Air Force bombers is...

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Two North American B-25's churn the water with hits and near misses on a Japanese frigate in the March 29, 1945 attack which cost the Japs nine ships, South China Sea

Two North American B-25's churn the water with hits and near misses on...

Photograph by U.S. Army A.A.F. No. 58062 AC. Title transcribed from item. Ira Clarence Eaker Collection.

[Page of advertisements, with cartoon "winning and wearing", showing man asking to buy a Copperhead badge, from shopkeeper, who hits him]

[Page of advertisements, with cartoon "winning and wearing", showing m...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1863 May 23, p. 144. Caption: Doubtful citizen- Sir, do you sell Copperhead Badges? I want one. Patriotic storekeeper- This is the only badge you Copperheads des... More

J.H. La Pearl's combination of sure hits the most versatile and high grade artists on earth.

J.H. La Pearl's combination of sure hits the most versatile and high g...

Created and "copyright 1900 by The U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 28819 stamped on front of poster. No. 4770. Poster contains only text. Forms part of: Theatrical poster co... More

J.H. La Pearl's combination of sure hits moral, refined, and up to date.

J.H. La Pearl's combination of sure hits moral, refined, and up to dat...

Created and "copyright 1900 by The U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 28817 stamped on front of poster. No. 4771. Poster contains only text. Forms part of: Theatrical poster co... More

New fathometer used at full speed. Washington, D.C., May 7. Dr. Herbert Grove Dorsey of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey has invented an instrument to secure the precise measurement. The machine sends a sound, pitched so high that it is above audibility, traveling thru the water a known speed, the sound hits the bottom and returns as an echo at 20 times per second. The fathometer is so accurate that a change in depth of three inches can be detected. the indications are made by a flash from a neon tube, viewed thru a rotating disc, the flash of light appearing to stand still and the depth is read as easily as a clock. The instrument indicator is installed in the pilot house (at the top of the machine) and the transceiver (the disc at the right of the machine [?]) is located in the hull of the ship, 5/7/1937

New fathometer used at full speed. Washington, D.C., May 7. Dr. Herber...

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Hits present unemployment insurance. Washington, D.C., March 17. Appearing before the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee today, Herman A. Gray, Chairman of the New York Unemployment Insurance State Advisory Council, declared that American system of unemployment insurance is cumbersome, complex and confused. He added, the benefit provisions are so complicated they are not readily understood even by the expert.,3/17/38

Hits present unemployment insurance. Washington, D.C., March 17. Appea...

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Fort Story coast defense. Target practice at Fort Story, Virginia. This soldier analyzes hits and misses at the control post of one of Uncle Sam's coast artillery batteries..

Fort Story coast defense. Target practice at Fort Story, Virginia. Thi...

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J.H. La Pearl's combination of sure hits

J.H. La Pearl's combination of sure hits

D16727 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Little Ruby La Pearl. Created and "copyright 1900 by The U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 4828. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collect... More

Royal Air Force "Ventura" bombers blitz Den Helder in daylight. "Ventura" aircraft of Royal Air Force bomber command, escorted by fighters, attacked the docks at Den Helder by daylight on February 12, 1943. Their previous visit to the Dutch port was January 23. Action photo taken during the attack shows many bombs bursting across the southern entrance to the naval basin--four of them in the inner haven (Naval). Hits were scored on the torpedo boat establishment and the torpedo workshops east of the entrance. Smoke arises from bombs which burst in a line across the railway in the southwest part of the harbor

Royal Air Force "Ventura" bombers blitz Den Helder in daylight. "Vent...

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Royal Air Force "Ventura" bombers blast Ijuiden steelworks by day. "Ventura" aircraft of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command, escorted by fighters, carried out a daylight attack on the Royal Dutch blast furnaces and steelworks at Ijumuiden, Holland, on February 13, 1943. Action photo taken during the attack shows: Bombs from the Venturas falling across the target area. Hits are seen on the stockyard, unloading wharf, coke oven plant near the mechanical workshops, water tower, and among the foundations for a blast furnace

Royal Air Force "Ventura" bombers blast Ijuiden steelworks by day. "Ve...

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C.I.O. counsel hits A.F. of L. criticism of National Labor Relations board. Washington, D.C., Lee Pressman, C.I.O. counsel, today took issue with the A.F.L. proposals to "safeguard" unions against NLRB "favorism" by providing that the Board's decisions shall not become effective until confirmed by the courts. Testifying before a Senate education and Labor Subcommittee, Pressman asserted that such an amendment to the Wagner Bill guaranteeing collective bargaining under Federal contracts, loans, or grants would eliminate the effectiveness of the board, 3/24/38

C.I.O. counsel hits A.F. of L. criticism of National Labor Relations b...

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Production. C-47 transport planes. Close spacing on the Douglas assembly lines at Long Beach, California, is the order of the day as production of C-47 transports and other warplanes hits a new high. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across the oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport planes. Close spacing on the Douglas assemb...

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Hits Borah-O'Mahoney licensing bill. Washington, D.C., March 22. Edward Clark, Texas Secretary of State, protested before a Senate Judiciary Committee today that the Borah-O'Mahoney liscencing bill was a thinly veiled attempt to control production rather than to regulate interstate commerce. The bill, he said, is but seeking a legal way to do an illegal act, 3/22/38

Hits Borah-O'Mahoney licensing bill. Washington, D.C., March 22. Edwar...

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Wheeler hits sale of guns at peace rally. Washington, D.C., June 8. Condemnation of 'war hysteria' and defense policies was voiced last night by leaders of congressional, labor, student, and women's groups at an antiwar mass meeting. Over 1,100 persons attended. Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana, struck at Administration proposals to sell the Allies supplies of rifles, 75 millimeter guns and ammunition 'officially described as obsolete.' He further stated, ' I want to do everything to help the Allies stamp out the brutal forces which seek to dominate Europe and perhaps the rest of the world, but setting the United States on fire will not help cut out the fire in Europe'

Wheeler hits sale of guns at peace rally. Washington, D.C., June 8. Co...

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Gasoline rationing. A pre-war sign gives unnecessary warning to wartime motorists, when there are any, as weekday traffic on the Pennsylvania turnpike hits new lows

Gasoline rationing. A pre-war sign gives unnecessary warning to wartim...

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No errors, more hits. Expert opticians work on the optical assembly of aiming apparatus for the Army guns, produced at a large eastern arsenal

No errors, more hits. Expert opticians work on the optical assembly of...

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The Norton boys and father on the way home to dinner. Smallest boy Edgar been sweeping 3 months in Saxon Mill, Spartanberg. Makes about 40 cents a day. His brother makes 60 cents. Father works in the spool room . Mother and 3 children at home. Father said Eddie is a hard worker. The mother told me later when I had to see the family record "The bible's here but the record, hits done got torn up." She said the boys were 12 and 13 years old. Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina.

The Norton boys and father on the way home to dinner. Smallest boy Edg...

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Speaker, migratory worker, leader in the cotton strike, at Conference to Aid Agricultural Organization (Steinbeck Committee), Bakersfield, California. Saying: "Brother, 'Hits pick seventy-five cent cotton or starve. Brother, 'hits pick seventy-five cent cotton or else"

Speaker, migratory worker, leader in the cotton strike, at Conference ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Three Thirds of the Nation. Edward Arnold hits punch line on the War Production Board (WPB) radio program "Steel," presented over Blue Network on May 6. In background, director Sam Pierce signals Meredith Wilson to come in with music

Three Thirds of the Nation. Edward Arnold hits punch line on the War P...

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American editor is greatly surprised at Japanese sharp-shooter as he hits Kiulencheng [sic], Hoojo, Kuichow, Motienluig, Haicheng, & next Liaoyang

American editor is greatly surprised at Japanese sharp-shooter as he h...

Print shows an American journalist amazed at the marksmenship of a Japanese soldier at a shooting gallery. Signed on block by artist in lower left, includes chop. Descriptive information compiled by Nichibunke... More