It was the last prewar Grand Prix at Monaco, for in 1938, the demand for ₤ 500 ( about US $ 2450 Rudolf Caracciola

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Away from the professionals, Epitaph for a Spy ( 1938 ), " The Mask of Dimitrios " ( US: A Coffin for Dimitrios, 1939 ), and Journey into Fear ( 1940 ) by Eric Ambler, concern the fortunes of amateurs entangled in espionage.

In 1938, The Christian leader attributed " the religion of Jesus, not a religion about Jesus " to Unitarians, though the phrase was used earlier by Congregationalist Rollin Lynde Hartt in 1924. and earlier still by US President Thomas Jefferson.

Other estimates of Austro-Hungarian casualties are as follows: By Austrian Ministry of Defense in 1938: Military dead 1, 016, 200 By UK War Office in 1922: Dead 1, 200, 00 By US War Dept in 1924: 1, 200, 00 killed and died A study published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1940 estimated civilian 467, 000 deaths " attributable to war ", the primary cause being famine.

After I, Claudius, he and the ex-patriate German film producer Erich Pommer founded the production company Mayflower Pictures in the UK, which produced three films starring Laughton: Vessel of Wrath ( US Title The Beachcomber ) ( 1938 ), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham, in which his wife Elsa Lanchester co-starred ; St. Martin's Lane ( US Title Sidewalks of London ), about London street entertainers, which featured Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison ; and Jamaica Inn, with Maureen O ' Hara and Robert Newton, about Cornish smugglers, based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, and the last film Alfred Hitchcock directed in Britain before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s.

Today, Miró's paintings sell for between US $ 250, 000 and US $ 26 million ; US $ 17 million at a U. S. auction for the La Caresse des étoiles ( 1938 ) on May 6, 2008, at the time the highest amount paid for one of his works.

Following The Invisible Man, Universal Studios tried to typecast him in horror films, but he broke free, starting with the gleefully evil role of Prince John in The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1938 ), then with his Academy Award-nominated performance as the conflicted corrupt US senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), and followed with probably his most famous role, the flexible French police Captain Renault in Casablanca ( 1942 ).

The firm was involved with the distribution of 1938 US $ 100 million of debentures for the United States Steel Corporation as the lead underwriter.

The Overseas Highway from Miami to Key West was completed in 1938, and soon became a southern extension of US 1.

*" Queen Mary & Queen Elizabeth " was a nickname used in 1938 for the US presidential limousines

by John H. P. Marks, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1938 – aka Death on the Installment Plan ( US ), tr.

Among the artists represented in the collection are, from Italy, De Chirico ( The Red Tower, The Nostalgia of the Poet ) and Severini ( Sea Dancer ); from France, Braque ( The Clarinet ), Duchamp ( Sad Young Man on a Train ), Léger ( Study of a Nude ), Picabia ( Very Rare Picture on Earth ); from Spain, Dalí ( Birth of Liquid Desires ), Miró ( Seated Woman II ) and Picasso ( The Poet, On the Beach ); from other European countries, Brâncuşi ( including a sculpture from the Bird in Space series ), Max Ernst ( The Kiss, Attirement of the Bride ), Giacometti ( Woman with Her Throat Cut, Woman Walking ), Gorky ( Untitled ), Kandinsky ( Landscape with Red Spots, No. 2, White Cross ), Klee ( Magic Garden ), Magritte ( Empire of Light ) and Mondrian ( Composition No. 1 with Grey and Red 1938, Composition with Red 1939 ); and from the US, Calder ( Arc of Petals ) and Pollock ( The Moon Woman, Alchemy ).

What is now Route 54 was originally legislated in 1938 to run from US 30 / US 206 in Hammonton south to Main Road in Landis Township ( part of present-day Vineland ).

Route 54 was legislated in 1938 to run from US 30 / Route 43 and US 206 / Route 39 in Hammonton south along Lincoln Avenue to an intersection with Main Road in Landis Township, Cumberland County ( now a part of Vineland ).

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* Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, US federal legislation

Profits dropped from US $ 20 million in 1938, to US $ 6 million in 1939.

* Adrian Cronauer ( born 1938 ), American lawyer and radio speaker

* 1938 – Joe Frank, American radio host

A radio adaptation starring Orson Welles aired in the USA on November 6, 1938, as part of his Mercury Theatre on the Air program.

After the success of Welles's War of the Worlds 1938 Halloween radio broadcast, Welles gained a unique contract with RKO Pictures.

* 1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.

* The War of the Worlds ( radio drama ), the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles

On October 30, 1938, CBS gained a taste of infamy when Orson Welles and the The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds.

* The October 30, 1938, radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds was the cause of much confusion when it was aired, with some people believing an actual Martian invasion was taking place.

A borderline case between fiction and hoax is a 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles describing a Martian invasion of earth.

Perhaps America's most famous radio drama broadcast is Orson Welles's The War of the Worlds, a 1938 version of the H. G. Wells novel, which convinced large numbers of listeners that an actual invasion from Mars was taking place.

My Man Godfrey was adapted for radio and broadcast on Lux Radio Theater on 9 May 1938, with David Niven playing the part of Tommy Gray.

The 25th Anniversary of the Lincoln Highway was noted a month later in a July 3, 1938, nationwide radio broadcast on NBC.

In Sideslip by Ted White and Dave van Arnam, a private detective from our New York finds himself in an alternate reality where Earth is under occupation by interstellar humanoids nicknamed " Angels ", who had landed in 1938, taking advantage of the confusion following Orson Welles ' War of the Worlds radio program, and had ruled Earth as a colony ever since.

Earlier work, including Luis Buñuel's 1933 Land Without Bread, Orson Welles's 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, various April Fool's Day news reports, and vérité style film and television during the 1960s and 1970s, served as precursor to the genre.

In 1938, the Swedish public service radio company Sveriges Radio started playing it at the end of transmitting in the evenings, which marked the beginning of the de facto status as national anthem the song has had since.

In 1938, in what has become one of the most famous American radio plays of all time, Orson Welles acted out his The War of the Worlds invasion.

In 1938, they first received national exposure by performing on the Kate Smith Hour radio show, which led to their appearance in a Broadway musical, The Streets of Paris.

The team's first known radio appearance was on The Kate Smith Hour in February 1938.

It was first heard by a national radio audience in March, 1938, when the team were regulars on the Kate Smith radio show.

In February 1938, Abbott and Costello joined the cast of The Kate Smith Hour radio program, and the sketch was first performed for a national radio audience that March.

Kane hosted a weekly national radio program called Famous First Facts from 1938 to 1939 on the Mutual Broadcasting System.

The prototype Ob. 9 had a commander's cupola with DShK 1938 / 46 machine gun, but the production model has a square commander's hatch, opening to the right.

After Japan went to war with China in 1937, passenger car production was restricted, so by 1938, Datsun's Yokohama plant concentrated on building trucks for the Imperial Japanese Army.

Cotten made his film debut in the Welles-directed short Too Much Johnson, a comedy that was intended to complement an aborted 1938 Mercury stage production of William Gillette's 1890 play.

Rumors abounded that Sennett would be returning to film production ( a 1938 publicity release indicated that he would be working with Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy ), but apart from Sennett reissuing a couple of his Bing Crosby two-reelers to theaters, nothing happened.

Agricultural production was 83 % of 1938 levels, industrial production was 88 %, and exports only 59 %.

In 1938, Max Reinhardt directed a Broadway production of The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder had adapted from Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy's Einen Jux will er sich machen ( 1842 ).

This famous production also toured the country in 1938.

Her next picture was Jezebel ( 1938 ), and during production Davis entered a relationship with director William Wyler.

A further batch of 44 VW38 pre-production cars produced in 1938 introduced split rear windows ; both the split window and the dash were retained on production Type 1s until 1953.

After the 1938 invasion of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany, Tatras continued in production, largely because Germans liked the cars.

The Federal Theatre Project of the Works Progress Administration launched several productions of the play in cities across the United States, including a production with marionettes in Los Angeles in 1938.

Drilling commenced at a furious pace and by 1938, the area's oil production was valued at thirty two million dollars annually.

When John Ford ’ s production of Stagecoach pulled into town in 1938 ( a Sedona connection that has eluded historians since the film was made ), it set off three solid decades of A-picture activity — forty-four features through 1973, helped along by the construction of Sedona Lodge, the only permanent boarding and production facility ever built specifically for movie crews on remote location in the United States.

In 1938, Wilder adapted Nestroy's version into an Americanized comedy entitled The Merchant of Yonkers, which attracted the attention of German director Max Reinhardt, who mounted a Broadway production.

Joel Finler has analyzed the average length of feature releases in 1938, indicating the studios ' relative emphasis on B production ( United Artists produced little, focusing on the distribution of prestigious films from independent outfits ; Grand National, active 1936 – 40, occupied an analogous niche on Poverty Row, releasing mostly independent productions ):

Cinnaminson is home to the Burlington County Footlighters, a production company founded in 1938 who perform regularly at a playhouse within the township.

In 1938, the Piper Aircraft Corporation, maker of the Piper Cub and other light aircraft, moved its production plant to Lock Haven.

Claiborne Junior High School in New Tazewell, 1938, with Soldier's Memorial Elementary School to the leftBurley tobacco production in the area provided a cash crop, and warehouses were built in the town for tobacco auctions in the late fall and early winter.

In 1938 he was chosen as head of production at MGM, where he was responsible for the decision to make The Wizard of Oz.

Connie was his leading lady in the Broadway production of What a Life in 1938.

Wolfsburg was founded on 1 July 1938 as the Nazis ' Stadt des KdF-Wagens bei Fallersleben (), a planned town around the village of Fallersleben to house the workers of the new Volkswagen factories, which were built to assemble the Volkswagen Beetle " people's car " and remain there today, although Beetle production there ended in 1978 ( it was transferred to Mexico for the final 25 years ).