Bofors guns used by the Army and Navy are shown lined up at the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. in Akron, Ohio, April 3, 1944. The company completed its 25,000th Bofors gun in two years of mass production. (Photo by AP Photo)





Elizabeth King of London, member of the British tiddlywinks team, lines up her next move in a demonstration following team's arrival at Hoboken, N.J., August 3, 1962. Team will tour the United States. Keeping close watch are teammates Peter J. Freeman, of Malvern; Philip Moore of Wolverhampton; and Dave Willis of Doncaster, Yorkshire, England. Team competes with a New York team on August 4. (Photo by Eddie Adams/AP Photo)





Docked at Pier 88 in Manhattan, New York City, these soldiers aboard the U.S.S. General Harry Taylor are celebrating their homecoming after World War II, on August 18, 1945. (Photo by AP Photo)





Hundreds of people, many of whom have lost their homes through bombing, now use the caves in Hastings, a south-east English town, on December 12, 1940, as their nightly refuge. Thousands of holidaymakers have toured these caves in peace time and legend links them with smugglers, but now they are serving a much more useful purpose. Special sections are reserved for games and recreation, and several people have 'set up house', bringing their own furniture and sleeping on their own beds. The local council are shortly going to install bunks and concrete the floors of the caves. (Photo by AP Photo)





A mechanical cotton picker is shown in use on December 22, 1930. The farm machine was perfected by Cotton Harvester Manufacturing Co., USA. (Photo by AP Photo)





Bobby Meyers of Clifton, N. J. plays with an erector set, February 20, 1961 – one of the most popular inventions of Alfred Carlton Gilbert, head of the A. C. Gilbert Co. (Photo by AP Photo)





Sharecropper Wesley Prickett, his wife and three children pose on the porch of their dilapidated farmhouse in Keysvill, Ga., on December 23, 1936 during the Great Depression. Left to right, Mary Lucille, Wesley, Franklin Delano (Dude), Mary Anne and Mrs. Prickett. (Photo by AP Photo)





Londoners crowd round the window of the Associated Press bureau in Farringdon Street, London, England on February 6, 1952, to read of the death of King George VI. (Photo by AP Photo)





Maj. George McNally, White House signal branch head, sits in front of the multiple control panel in President Truman's new railroad communications car, delivered for service in Washington, February 8, 1952. The panel with its maze of gadgets, controls radio broadcasts, radio photo transmissions, tape recordings of presidential speeches and incoming-outgoing teleprinter copy. Named the General Albert J. Myer, the special car resembles ordinary train cars from the outside. (Photo by Henry Burroughs/AP Photo)





Actor Mike Lane, standing six feet 10 inches in his stocking feet, makes a perfect monster as he carries actress Nancy Knox down the stairs into Frankenstein's dungeon, February 28, 1958. They have featured parts in the upcoming Boris Karloff movie “Frankenstein 1970”. (Photo by David F. Smith/AP Photo)





Sharecroppers preparing a simple meal on a kitchen stove on public highway near Sikeston, Missouri on January 10, 1939. Estimated by the state highway patrol to number 1,000, sharecroppers who reported they had been evicted from their homes encamped on public highways to call attention to their plight. (Photo by AP Photo)





First Lieut. Clark Gable, former movie actor now an aerial gunner in the Army Air Forces, wears a double shoulder sling of .50 caliber machine gun bullets in taking off on a practice firing mission at Tyndall Field in Panama City, Florida on January 20, 1943. (Photo by AP Photo)





Salome Cervantes, wife of a cotton picker, hand washes the family laundry in front of their window-less shack at a camp for migratory farmworkers near Fresno, Ca., March 22, 1950. (Photo by AP Photo)





The Apollo 17 command module America makes a perfect splashdown in the Pacific south of Pago Pago Tuesday December 19, 1972, at the end of the final lunar mission of the Apollo series. (Photo by AP Photo/PL)





Seven of the crew of the damaged airship R33 (R-33) which managed to struggle back to its arifield after being 28 hours in the air, 17th April 1925. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)





Bertha Gilbert, 22, is led away by police after she tried to enter a segregated lunch counter in Nashville, Tenn., on May 6, 1964. She is arrested on a disorderly conduct charge. (Photo by AP Photo)





Women sorting paper for the London & South West Railway's scheme to clear out and recycle waste paper, 16th April 1917. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)





A woman cries next to a dead body, 17 April 1975 in Phnom Penh, after the Khmer Rouge enter the Cambodian capital and establish government of Democratic Kampuchea (DK). (Photo by Claude Juvenal/AFP Photo)





American actress Shirley MacLaine displays that “great to be alive” feeling as she meets the press, Sunday, May 9, 1976 in London, shortly after she arrived in town to play a three-week season at the London Palladium. Shirley has been signed to CBS records worldwide for a live recording of her stage show. She is also scheduled to visit Australia in September, touring most major cities. (Photo by AP Photo)





Movie star Debbie Reynolds entertaining at 8th Army headquarters in Seoul, South Korea on Monday, May 23, 1955. (Photo by AP Photo)