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LIFE

Front Cover
21 Oct 1940
132 pages
Vol. 9, No. 17
ISSN 0024-3019
Published by Time Inc
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
  

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Contents

These hide snipers of the British army
10
Camouflage, Snipers
Japan and the Indies
14
Japan (Politics and government)
London's East end
19
World War, 1939-1945 (Great Britain), London (England) (Social conditions)
This great moment
29
Presidential campaigns (1940)
U.S. industry hustles to meet the nation's need for speed, speed, speed
31
Munitions, World War, 1939-1945 (United States)
Chicago's machine runs on gratitude
94
Chicago (Ill.) (Politics and government)
Pennsylvania scion
96
Jay COOKE; 4th
Ohio bets on Burton for Senate
98
Harold Hitz Burton; 1888-1964
Connecticut sees comer in Cornell
98
Paul Lincoln CORNELL
Chadwick is ahead in Washington
99
Stephen Fowler Chadwick

Busy shipyard saddles Bremerton with all the problems of a boom
34
Bremerton (Wash.)
Hitler dances jig for victory
38
Adolf Hitler; 1889-1945
Children's lifeboat lasts out eight days of disaster
42
World War, 1939-1945 (Submarine operations), Life saving
Blood plasma for Britain is given by U.S. donors under Red cross program
45
Blood (Transfusion)
London firefighter
51
World War, 1939-1945 (Great Britain), Fire prevention, London (England) (History, Bombardments, 1939-1945)
American soldiers in 1940 are 2 inches taller, 15 pounds heavier than 1917
57
United States Army, Military training
Sweater season opens with rush to warm bulky wools
62
Sweaters
Texas ranch
69
Cowboys, Ranches
Sculptors thrive in California with all outdoors for a studio
79
Ralph Stackpole; 1885-1974, Sculpture, American
Deanna Durbin, grown to young womanhood, makes her eighth straight hit
85
Deanna Durbin; 1921-.
Spring parade
86
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Elections of 1940: U.S. voters face challenge to democracy
91
Presidential campaigns (1940)
Sedalia is taking campaign calmly
92
Sedalia (Mo.)
Bruce Barton of New York is salesman of a liberal G.O.P.
100
Bruce Barton; 1886-1967
Roosevelt preferred
102
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; 1882-1945, Wendell Lewis Willkie; 1892-1944, United States (Politics and government)
Nation's cartoonists tear into both candidates tooth and claw
108
Caricatures and cartoons
Strange sights of war
112
World War, 1939-1945 (Great Britain)
Audubon's animals
116
John James Audubon; 1785-1851, Animals in art
Juanita Rios is new Stork club hit
119
Juanita RIOS
Life goes calling at the University of the South
122
University of the South
Portrait
132
James BASSETT
Portrait
132
Harold CALLENDER
Portrait
132
William Watts CHAPLIN
Portrait
132
Michael FORSTADT
Portrait
132
Roy Wilson Howard; 1883-1964
Portrait
132
Ansel TALBERT

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