Passenger service ended in 1938, and the last freight train ran in 1947.

From 1904 to 1935 there was a passenger service on the North Friesland Railway, freight being carried until January 1938.

* 1928 – 1938 PRR electrified its New York – Washington main line, the Chicago – Philadelphia main line between Harrisburg and Paoli, several Philadelphia and New York area commuter lines, and major through freight lines.

The line also carried GWR steam freight trains until 1938, when the links at Ealing Broadway and west of were removed, and the line was fully transferred to London Underground.

Over the years, the 4. 5 ton weight limit proved problematic for the increasing freight industry and in 1938 the original wrought iron chains were replaced with steel ones without the need to close the bridge.

When the connecting Lake Shore Electric abandoned operations in 1938, the resulting loss of essential interline freight business to Cleveland forced the C & LE to abandon operations the next year. p68, p398

Since the CLR was exclusively a passenger service, two extra dedicated tracks for the GWR's freight trains were opened in 1938, but were closed in 1964.

GWR steam freight trains also ran through West Acton until 1938, when the London Underground tracks were segregated further east, through East Acton station, and to the west of North Acton station.

In 1938 the D & H started to act as a bridge line, carrying large amounts of freight between other connecting lines.

The newest freight design was the Q Class 0-6-0 of 1938, the last locomotive designed by Richard Maunsell, built to essentially Victorian era principles ; these had been designed as replacements for many of the older 0-6-0s inherited by the Southern Railway in 1923, and entered service in January 1938, Maunsell having retired at the end of October 1937 to be replaced by Bulleid.

Closures were as follows :- Direct service to Franeker in October 1933 ; Direct service to Harlingen in May 1935 and freight in January 1938 ; All other passenger services ceased in July 1936, but were reopened as far as Tzummarum and Dokkum-Aalsum in May 1940.

First known as Hi-Catoctin, Camp David was originally built as a camp for federal government agents and their families, by the WPA, starting in 1935, opening in 1938.

The first arrests of German agents were made in 1938, and continued throughout World War II.

During the Bukharin trials in 1938, one of the charges was that Gorky was killed by Yagoda's NKVD agents.

" In 1938, the Supreme Court reversed itself in part in Wright v. U. S., ruling that Congress could designate agents on its behalf to receive veto messages when it was not in session, saying that " the Constitution does not define what shall constitute a return of a bill or deny the use of appropriate agencies in effecting the return.

" Another note listed BLIN as one of the New York KGB Station's agents in late 1938.

In response to the outrage of Jewish war veterans, Congress passed a law requiring agents of foreign principals to register with the State Department in 1938.

By 1938 the network expanded to 120 agents, and with time, it grew into one of the largest trucking companies.

The Polish Operation of the NKVD in 1937 – 1938 was a Soviet Great Purge-era mass operation against purported Polish agents in the Soviet Union, explicitly ordered against Polish spies, but interpreted by the NKVD as relating to " absolutely all Poles ".

A Russian Foreign Intelligence Service history quotes his KGB personnel files as stating, “ While working from 1938 through 1944 in the United States, Major Semenov showed himself to be one of the most active workers in the rezidentura and credits him with connecting to 20 agents along the scientific and technical line ".

Drilling of the first oil well began at Jebel Dukhan in October 1938 and, over a year later, the well struck oil in the Upper Jurassic limestone which, unlike the Bahraimi strike, was similar to Saudi Arabia ’ s Dammam field discovered three years before .< ref >" The Qatar Oil Discoveries " by Rasoul Sorkhabi < http :// www. geoexpro. com / history / qatardiscoveries ></ ref > Production was halted between 1942 and 1947 because of World War II and its aftermath.

Davis observed that at Casa Colorada his party “ struck a young desert, an excellent pocket edition of the great African Zahara, over which we journeyed for about four miles .” Through the area north of “ La Hoya ” the sand made travel difficult and the land barren with the exception of “ occasional small patches in some of the valleys close to the river ” ( Davis 1938: 200 ).

None of the businesses destroyed in the 1938 fire were rebuilt, and the business district of the town was again struck by fire on the afternoon of August 16, 1943, when another commercial building was burned.

On 6 February 1938, 5 people drowned and over 250 people were rescued or resuscitated after a series of large waves struck the beach and pulled people back into the sea, a day that became known as " Black Sunday "..

Until Hurricane Irene in 2011 ( which had weakened to a tropical storm by the time it struck Vermont ), the 1938 hurricane was the only tropical cyclone to make a direct hit on Vermont in its recorded history.

Since 1938 the northeastern United States was struck by the Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944, Hurricane Carol, Hurricane Edna, and Hurricane Hazel in 1954, the flooding remnants of Hurricane Connie, Hurricane Diane, Hurricane Ione in 1955, Hurricane Donna in 1960, Hurricane Gloria in 1985, Hurricane Bob in 1991, and Hurricane Irene in 2011.

However in 1938 he was struck down with an acute neurological condition and had to return to London.

Göring and Himmler struck in January 1938, when on 12 January Blomberg, then 59, married Erna Gruhn ( sometimes referred to as " Eva " or " Margarete "), a 26-year-old typist and secretary.

* The first, Russell ( DD-414 ), was a Sims-class destroyer, launched in 1938 and struck in 1945.

During 1938, Goebbels wrote that on looking at the film that he was " struck by the dullness of its portrayal, the coarseness of its construction, and the inadequacy of its acting.

After appearing with them in a few westerns, he disbanded the group in 1938 and struck out on a solo acting career.

* The 1938 New England Hurricane, a powerful hurricane that struck Long Island and New England in September of that year.

By the end of 1938 reform had been struck down, as no new reform laws were passed.

In 1938, at the insistence of Arturo Toscanini, Steinberg left Germany for the United States, by way of Switzerland.

Never rebuilt, the bridge was strengtened in 1938 by two extra piers, a concrete floor, and a walk-way along the upper side in order to care for modern traffic.

* 1938 – English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia.

In 1938, the first formal men's barbershop organization was formed, known as the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America ( S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A ), and in 2004 rebranded itself and officially changed its public name to the Barbershop Harmony Society ( BHS ).

He was chosen as the substitute for Sapir during his medical leave in 1938.

Starting in 1938, Post Office Telephones laid dedicated cables, for numerous telephone and telegraph circuits, from the nearby repeater station at Fenny Stratford ( on Watling Street, the main road linking London to the north-west, later to be designated the A5 ).

In 1938 Fritz London proposed BEC as a mechanism for superfluidity in < sup > 4 </ sup > He and superconductivity.

The second article, published in 1938, states that launching a swift strategic knockout has great attractions for Germany but appears to accept that such a knockout will be very difficult to achieve by land attack under modern conditions ( especially in view of the existence of systems of fortification like the Maginot Line ) unless an exceptionally high degree of surprise is achieved.

Guderian expressed a hearty contempt for General Ludwig Beck, chief of the General Staff from 1935 to 1938, whom he characterized as hostile to ideas of modern mechanised warfare: quoting Guderian " He was a paralyzing element wherever he appeared .... ignificantly of his way of thought was his much-boosted method of fighting which he called delaying defense ".

Although completed in 1938, it was hit by a bomb in 1940 and remained semi-derelict for 22 years, before reopening in 1962.

Wills ' 1938 recording of " Ida Red " served as a model for Chuck Berry's decades later version of the same song-" Maybellene ".

1938 Cajun woman reaching for strings of garlic suspended from rafters.

Evidence suggests a third release in 1938, consisting of toads being used for human pregnancy tests — many species of toad were found to be effective for this task, and were employed for about 20 years after the discovery was announced in 1948.

The official record with standing room remains 49, 335 for the game against Millwall Dockers, 8 October 1938.

According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

In 1938 the highest attendance to date at the ground was recorded at over 75, 000 for a FA Cup match against Aston Villa.

In 1938 the Rosenwald Fund provided money for Alston to travel to the South, which was his first return there since leaving as a child.

From his first introduction in 1938 to the mid-1980s, " Clark Kent " was seen mostly as a disguise for Superman, enabling him to mix with ordinary people.

Jones became a director ( or " supervisor ", the original title for an animation director in the studio ) himself in 1938 when Frank Tashlin left the studio.

Later, after nuclear fission was discovered in 1938, Szilárd immediately realized the possibility of using neutron-induced fission as the particular nuclear reaction needed for a chain-reaction, so long as fission also produced neutrons.

* Fugitives for a Night, 1938

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.