AP Historical Hard Drive 2002

U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt addresses the evening joint session of House and Senate in the House of Chamber during a radio broadcast of his Stat...

Mao Tse-tung, leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is shown in the northern Shaanxi, or Shensi, province of China in 1936. (AP Photo)

A drawing of the original Thomas Edison tin foil phonograph, invented in 1877, is shown in 1936. The first records were made on strips of tinfoil wra...

Burlington's new Denver Zephyr number 9907 passenger train is shown in the Electro-Motive plant near Chicago, Ill., in 1936. The first and second car...

The New York Yankees, American league champions, pose at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, N.Y., in 1936. Seated in first row, from left, are, Bill Dickey...

Dancer-actors Buddy Ebsen, left, and his sister Vilma pose in character in the

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Rose Veronica Coyle of Philadelphia, Miss America 1936, poses in a bathing suit at an unknown seaside location. (AP Photo)

Vere Gordon Childe, professor of prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, is shown in 1936. (AP Photo)

Her majesty Queen Elizabeth plays a contest of darts with the King as factory workers and clerks watch during their visit to the Slough Social Centre...

Tommy Armour of Chicago, Ill., drives off the ninth tee on his way to a 70 in 18 holes of the $10,000 Miami-Biltmore Open in Coral Gables, Fla., Dec....

Newlyweds Marjorie Post and Joseph E. Davies leave her penthouse apartment after their marriage in New York City, Dec. 15, 1935. Post, heiress and ph...

An unfrequented segment of the Grand Canyon is seen in the late evening from the waters of Boulder Lake in Arizona., Dec. 2, 1935. (AP Photo)

A Pan American Airways Martin M-130 flying boat, the China Clipper, leaves San Francisco Bay for Manila carrying the first United States trans-Pacific...

This general view shows a wooden farmhouse near Braidwood, Australia, Nov. 8, 1935. (AP Photo)

Bridge workers stand on steel beams during construction of the Triborough Bridge over the East River between Ward's Island and Manhattan on Nov. 2, 19...

The Pan American China Clipper speeds out from San Francisco Bay in a test flight over the Pacific Ocean before starting its regular transpacific serv...

G.K. Chesterton, critic, novelist and poet, takes a stroll in Brighton, southern England, Oct. 30, 1935. (AP Photo)

The new 25-ton Pan American China Clipper flies over Miami, Fla., on completion of its first distance flight, 1,200 miles from Baltimore, Md., on Oct....

Johnny Revolta, left, receives the PGA Championship trophy from George Jacobus, president of the American Golfers Association, at the Twin Hills Count...

Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt III, 62, reads his morning paper aboard his yacht Winchester in Miami, Fla., Oct. 18, 1935. (AP Photo)

This is a general view of a windrow of oat hay being dried on farm land in Alaska's Matanuska River Valley, Sept. 28, 1935 during the Depression era....

Announcer Arthur Belleau holds up the fist of Joe Louis as victor in the 15-round scheduled boxing bout with Max Baer at Yankee Stadium in New York Ci...

Lawson Little, center, of San Francisco, receives the National Amateur Golf trophy from Prescott S. Bush, right, president of the American Golf Associ...

Howard Hughes sits on his H-1 speed plane after he made a forced landing in a beet field near Santa Ana, Ca., Sept. 13, 1935. The propeller, fuselage...

Miss Pittsburgh Henriette Leaver, 19, wears her crown and holds her trophy after winning the 1935 Miss American title at the Miss America Pageant in A...

Composer George Gershwin, left, goes over the score of his first opera,

British automobile racer Sir Malcolm Campbell speeds across the salt bed in his Bluebird and sets a world record of 301.337 miles per hour on the Bonn...

Will Rogers, humorist and actor, is shown in this studio portrait in Hollywood, Ca., Aug. 16, 1935. (AP Photo)

Plebes of the United States Military Academy take their first hike carrying bayonets and 60-pound backpacks during training for the U.S. Army at West...

Pat Hemmer, a Matanuska Project Colonist, formerly of Minnesota, mows wild hay near his farm to be used during the coming winter to feed livestock in...

Special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey holds up his right hand as he is sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Philip J. McCook in New York City, July 29, 1935...

Movie producer Samuel Goldwyn, left, Charles Chaplin, center, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., and actress Mary Pickford are shown at a meeting of the board of...

Sam Parks Jr., right, U.S. Open golf champion, and Jimmy Thomson, are shown before their exhibition game at the country club in Ridgewood, N.J., on Ju...

Alfred Perry of Surrey, right, receives the cup from Captain Hall Blythe after winning the British Open Golf Championship in Muirfield, Scotland, July...

American thoroughbred racehorse Omaha is shown with jockey W. Wright on June 24, 1935. The location is not known. (AP Photo)

Jesse Owens, Ohio State University, is shown jumping over the hurdle in the 220-yard low hurdles race at Berkeley, Ca., June 22, 1935. Owens swept th...

Construction workers apply a coat of protective covering on the huge cable supports of the George Washington Bridge, which spans the Hudson River, in...

Sam Parks Jr., of Pittsburgh, is presented with the trophy cup by Prescott Bush, president of the American Golf Association, after winning the U.S. Op...

Walter Hagen tees off at the first tee in the opening round of the National Open Golf Championship at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pa., June 6, 19...

William Lawson Little Jr. blasts out of a sand trap at the 11th hole during title match with Dr. William Tweddel in the British Amateur Championship a...

Spectators gather to view the luxury French ocean liner Normandie as she is docked in New York City, June 4, 1935. The liner completed her maiden voy...

William Lawson Little Jr., center, is presented with the British Amateur Championship trophy by William Smith at St. Anne's-on-the-Sea, England, June...

The 79,000-ton French liner Normandie streaks her way off Montauk Point, Long Island, N.Y., morning of June 3, 1935, en route to New York harbor to co...

Spectators gather to view the luxury French ocean liner Normandie as she is docked at her pier in New York City, June 3, 1935 after completing her mai...

The luxury French ocean liner Normandie sails up the north river past Manhattan's skyline, in background, on her way to her pier as she completes her...

Kelly Petillo of Los Angeles crosses the finish line to win the annual 500-mile automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Track in Indianapol...

Jesse Owens of Ohio State University crosses the finish line in the 220-yard dash with a record speed of 20.3 seconds at the Big Ten Western Conferenc...

American aviatrix Amelia Earhart poses before boarding a TWA airplane at Newark Airport, N.J., May 22, 1935. Earhart is en route to Chicago, Ill., to...

Omaha, with jockey Willie Saunders on, is shown after winning the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Md., May 11, 1935. (AP Photo)