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LIFE

Front Cover
1 Apr 1940
96 pages
Vol. 8, No. 14
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 are kodachromes
10
Color photography
Quezon on the spot
14
Manuel Luis Quezon; 1878-1944, Philippines (Politics and government)
Deficit in Monaco
17
Monaco
Bertrand Russell rides out collegiate cyclone
23
Bertrand Russell (British philosopher.); 1872-1970, University of California, Los Angeles
France tries a new premier
28
Paul Reynaud; 1878-1966, France Cabinet
Stevens tech gives aptitude tests
54
Aptitude tests, STEVENS institute of technologyHuman engineering laboratory
Colonel-General von Brauchitsch commands the Nazi German army
58
Walther von Brauchitsch; 1881-1948
PWA has changed face of U.S.
61
Public buildings, Public works, PUBLIC works administration
World's longest tunnel is free of worst industrial disease
68
Silicosis
Silicosis: world's longest tunnel is free of worst industrial disease
68
Tunnels, Silicosis

Welles ends talks with war's little statesmen
30
Sumner Welles (American diplomat.); 1892-1961
Famed ghost town of the Comstock lode wakens for premiere of Virginia City
32
Virginia City (Nev.)
Soviet army's new weapons
34
Armaments, Soviet Union (Army)
250-year-old turtles at Bronx zoo
45
Animals (Photographs), Tortoises
Rookie treks from Crabapple to N.Y. giants' training camp
50
John Joel RUCKER, Baseball players
June Preisser makes tumbling an art
70
June PREISSER, Acrobats and acrobatism
Beaux-arts ball
86
Balls (Parties)
Lovers in marble are carved by leading American sculptor
90
William Zorach (American sculptor and painter.); 1887-1966
Swiss family Lester
94
Herbert S. LESTER

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