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LIFE

Front Cover
15 Apr 1940
112 pages
Vol. 8, No. 16
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

Models for some famous patents
14
Patent models
America's no. 1 traveling salesman goes on road with new political line
23
James Aloysius Farley (American political leader.); 1888-1976, Presidential campaigns (1940)
Tom Dewey proves himself great vote-getter after whirlwind campaign through Wisconsin
28
Thomas Edmund Dewey; 1902-1971
Winning the battle of the river Plate
32
World War, 1939-1945 (Naval operations)
Touchy judge finds the St Louis post-dispatch in contempt of court
36
St. Louis post-dispatch (Newspaper), Freedom of the press
Black spot
59
Douglas Llewellyn OLIVER, Anthropology, Polynesians, Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea)
Kids swarm to Olneyville boys club pool in Providence, R.I.
71
Boys' clubs, Swimming, Providence (R.I.)
Government and youth
77
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.), United States National Youth Administration
Iron ore flows at Narvik port
84
World War, 1939-1945 (Norway), Germany (Commerce), Narvik (Norway)
Dr Rhine and E.S.P.
86
Joseph Bank Rhine; 1895-1980, Perception, Telepathy

U.S. army tries out its newest howitzer and AA gun
39
Guns (Ordnance), Howitzers
Higher and higher
42
Musicals, revues, etc (Reviews, Single works)
Some scenes from the economic war front of Parisian fashions
48
Clothing industry (France), Paris (France) (Industries)
Old eyelet embroidery is new
52
Embroidery
Strange case of Murder Inc
96
William O'Dwyer; 1890-1964, New York (N.Y.) (Crime)
Life goes to a country carnival
100
Carnivals
Grand old man of sculpture
106
Aristide Maillol; 1861-1944

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