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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 pictures prove facts in Grapes of wrath
10
Migrant labor
Taft stumps Florida for presidential nomination
17
Robert A. Taft; 1917-1993, Presidential campaigns (1940)
Welles goes in search of peace
22
Sumner Welles (American diplomat.); 1892-1961
Portrait
23
Francis Biddle (American Attorney general.); 1886-1968
British retrieve transport plane down in an African river jungle
24
Airplanes
Parson Weems' fable
32
George Washington (American president.); 1732-1799, Grant Wood (American painter.); 1891-1942
Debutante makes her entrance in a Broadway success
35
Gene Tierney; 1920-1991
Two on an island
42
Elmer Rice; 1892-1967, Theater reviews (Single works)
Joe Falcaro and Ned Day show fundamentals and some tricks
49
Bowling
M.I.T. professor lays old ghosts made by camera lens's reflection
54
C. Hawley CARTWRIGHT, Lenses, Photographic

Worst ice gorges in South's history choke Mississippi almost to Gulf
25
Mississippi River
Multiple births get off to a big start for 1940
26
Multiple birth
U.S. helps the Finns
28
Herbert Hoover; 1874-1964, Relief work (Finland), Economic assistance, American (Finland)
Portrait
28
Taisto MAKI
Portrait
28
Paavo Nurmi; 1897-1973
Ballet dancers at high speed
60
Ballet
My little chickadee
63
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Rumania has oil trouble
66
Romania
King Carol of Rumania, shrewdest Balkan politician
72
Carol II (King of Romania); 1893-1953
Skiing weekend in the White mountains
86
Skiing

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