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  • (Original Caption) 11/25/1938-Warm Springs, Georgia- The big thrill of the Thanksgiving dinner at the Warm Springs Foundation for Infantile Paralysis sufferers came when President Roosevelt took up the tools and began to dismember the turkey. Here’s the scene with Mrs. Roosevelt and Robert Rosenberg, of New York, flanking the distinguished carver.Retail

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  • May 04, 1951-During a House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearing, Senator Joseph McCarthy holds up a letter purportedly written by FBI Director Hoover in 1941 warning that a Fort Monmouth employee had a “direct connection with an espionage agent”. How McCarthy came into possession of the letter was not made clear. Attorney Roy Cohn sits beside McCarthy (r).Newsletters

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  • UNIVERSAL COMPRESSION HOLDINGS (HOUSTON BASED)<br /> 5/15/01&#8211;Lino Garza, a contract welder working at Universal Compression, welds some pipeing for a natural gas compressor. In the background is an engine for a natural gas compressor package. HOUCHRON CAPTION (05/20/2001): Lino Garza, a contract welder working at Universal Compression Holdings, welds pipe to be used for a natural gas compressor. The company assembles components into large compressors that move natural gas through pipelines, and provides rental, sales, operations, maintenance and fabrication services. In the background is an engine to power one of its compressor packages. HOUSTON CHRONICLE SPECIAL SECTION: CHRONICLE 100. (Photo by Steve Campbell/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)Newsletters

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  • Women waiting in long queues to get their children vaccinated at a Bill Gates supported clinic. The Microsoft chairman has visited India, on behalf of his &#8220;Computers can wait, health can&#8217;t&#8221; foundation, to support the cause of making vaccines available to children around the country. He has already provided support worth US$ 200 million for India to fight the AIDS epidemic. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF, ten million additional lives could be saved through child and maternal immunization between 2006-2015 at an average annual cost of US $1 billion. The estimated US $2.5 billion current annual spending on immunization in the poorest countries would need to increase to US $3.5 billion by 2010 and US $4 billion by 2015 to reach this goal. | Location: Muradnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India. (Photo by Pallava Bagla/Corbis via Getty Images)Health

    Just 1% of health R&D targets women. The Gates Foundation aims to change that with $2.5 billion push

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  • New IBM CEO Sam Palmisano (L) and Lou Gerstner, former IBM CEO, at a meeting at IBM headquarters. (Photo by James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images)Newsletters

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  • Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates (L), his wife Melinda Gates (C) and US investment guru Warren Buffett (R) pose for photographers during a news conference 26 June 2006 in New York regarding Buffett&#8217;s pledge of 10 million class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway Corporation to the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation. The gift worth USD 31 billion follows Gates&#8217; recent announcement that he would give up his daily duties as head of Microsoft to devote himself full time to his foundation, famous for US education initiatives and work the developing world including on HIV/AIDS. AFP PHOTO/Nicholas ROBERTS (Photo by NICHOLAS ROBERTS / AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS ROBERTS/AFP via Getty Images)Newsletters

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