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LIFE

Front Cover
15 Jan 1940
80 pages
Vol. 8, No. 3
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

How smoke blacks out St Louis
8
Smoke, Saint Louis (Mo.) (Air pollution)
Clouds of war and politics hang heavy as 76th Congress convenes
15
United States Congress (76th, 3rd session: 1940)
England drops its war minister
18
Great Britain Cabinet
Most disastrous fire in the history of Minneapolis
22
Fires, Minneapolis (Minn.)
WPA starts measuring 100,000 women to get standard dress sizes
24
Clothing and dress, Standardization
Like an old master, Taubes makes his own paints
38
Frederic Taubes; 1900-1981
Birth of a nation
40
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Contraband control
44
Great Britain Ministry of Economic Warfare, Contraband of war, World War, 1939-1945 (Blockades), Searches and seizures
Inland waterway from New York to Miami on the yacht Do-Ho
53
Intracoastal Waterway
Diamond industry
62
Diamonds

Russian campaign against Finland
26
Russo-Finnish War, 1939-1940
Rebecca
31
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Entente cordiale
36
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Ralph Lincoln Vaughn is best 1940 basketballer
66
Ralph Lincoln VAUGHN, Basketball
Bingo game in Lowell, 3,800 fans play weekly
74
Bingo, Lowell (Mass.)

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