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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Emergency Railroad Transportation Act

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The glass-fronted U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters building in Washington, D.C., with flags and a curved entrance facade.

Replicas of the synchronous communications satellites that allowed the 1968 Olympic Games to be televised in Europe and Japan.

Texas dust clouds

Norris Dam stretches across a wide river, with a road running along the top and a power station below, surrounded by forested hills in East Tennessee.

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