Pg… 29 Contents: This Great Moment: A Statement by the Editor of LIFE

Pg… 31 The Week's Events: U.S. Industry Hustles to Meet Nation's Need for Speed

Pg… 36 The Week's Events: LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World

Pg… 37 The Week's Events: A Canadian Child Says Goodby to His Father

Pg… 38 The Week's Events: Adolf Hitler Does a Victory Jig

Pg… 40 The Week's Events: Automobile Designers Sketch Fashions to Match Cars

Pg… 42 The Week's Events: Children's Lifeboat Lasts Out Eight Days of Disaster

Pg… 51 The Week's Events: Story of a London Firefighter

Pg… 102 The Week's Events: Roosevelt Preferred: By Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia

Pg… 108 The Week's Events: Cartoonists Tear into Both Candidates

Pg… 112 The Week's Events: Strange Sights of War in Bomb–stricken London

Pg… 119 The Week's Events: Juanita Rios Is New Stork Club Hit

Pg… 69 Photographic Essays: Texas Ranch: The Old West Lives on at Matador

Pg… 91 Photographic Essays: The 1940 Elections

Pg… 45 Medicine: U.S. Donors Give Blood Plasma for Britain

Pg… 57 Defense: Soldier of 1940 is 15 lb. Heavier, 2 in. Taller

Pg… 62 Modern Living: Sweater Season Opens

Pg… 79 Art: Sculptors Thrive in California

Pg… 85 Movies: Deanna Durbin Makes Her Eighth Straight Hit

Pg… 116 Natural History: Audubon's Animal Paintings

Pg… 2 Other Departments: Letters to the Editors

Pg… 10 Other Departments: Speaking of Pictures: Camouflage

Pg… 14 Other Departments: From LIFE's Correspondents

Pg… 24 Other Departments: LIFE's Pictures: An Index

Pg… 122 Other Departments: LIFE Goes to the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn.

Pg… 129 Other Departments: Pictures to the Editors