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| 1938 |
| | | Finnish designer Alvar Aalto develops a bent plywood three-legged stool, specifically designed for stacking | |
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| 1938 |
| | | Mexico, newly rich from oil, nationalizes the holdings of the foreign oil companies | |
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| 1938 |
| | | Leading British artists Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson marry | |
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| 1938 |
| | | The House Un-American Activities Committee is formed by US congressmen to investigate politically subversive groups | |
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| 1938 |
| | | The Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira wins success with the first exhibition of his watercolours | |
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| 1938 |
| | | Gloucestershire batsman Wally Hammond becomes captain of the England Test team | |
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| 1938 |
| | | Thornton Wilder's play Our Town opens on Broadway | |
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| 1938 |
| | | The first shipload of oil is exported from Saudi Arabia to the USA after the discovery of commercially viable resources in Dhahran | |
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| 1938 |
| | | British author Evelyn Waugh publishes a classic Fleet Street novel, Scoop, introducing Lord Copper, proprietor of The Beast | |
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| 1938 |
| | | The Du Pont Corporation begins manufacture of a new synthetic silk yarn, subsequently known as nylon | |
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