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Life Magazine, January 10, 1955 - Greta Garbo

Life Magazine, January 10, 1955 - Greta Garbo

Life Magazine, December 27, 1954 - Brueghel's art

Life Magazine, December 27, 1954 - Brueghel's art

Life Magazine, January 3, 1955 - Food, child in shopping cart

Original Life Magazine from January 3, 1955 - Food, child in shopping cart
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These issues are extremely nice. These are in amazing condition and are great for framing or giving as a cherished gift. Some may have very minor defects and address labels.
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These issues are in pretty good shape. These are great for those who want a complete, original, average condition issue to read and enjoy. They may have some light to moderate flaws like small tears, spots, library stamps etc. but would make a great piece of history for the budget minded to mark any occasion.
Some of the contents in this issue
Special issue - Food, a $93 billion market basket. Charming full page color Cannon towel ad inside front cover, with big stack of lots of different colors and patterns of towels. Ways to cut down kitchen work - basically "buy already prepared foods" and organize your kitchen, a neat look at the kitchen of 1955. Wonderful artistic aerial views of crop lands, including Frederick Schroeder's dairy farm in Wisconsin, photos by the famous Margaret Bourke-White. New York, the biggest appetite (1/12th of all food consumed in the USA), shows warehousing, food-distribution, more. Sockeye salmon in the Fraser River in British Columbia. The Supermarket. Biggest vegetable factory on earth, Seabrook farms, includes cool color photo of vegetables in trays. The farmer and his government, features Fred Bruene and his family farm in Iowa. Traditional American food (dishes) with recipes. Indigestion amid all this plenty - with the great comic drawings of Robert Osborn. Fun article on the Noonday break, lunch, including John Ronayne, Angela Lansbury, John M. Lambert, Mrs. Billie Ryan, chuck Haines, Emil Kantola, and others. World's corniest building, Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota. Lettuce growing. Dr. Samuel Sheppard is convicted of murder. Earthquake in California. How beef gets to a beef-eating nation. Fastest man on the face of the earth - John P. Stapp at 632 Mph in rocket propelled sled.
Triumph and an obligation
2
Food supply

Base of abundance
4
Land

Ways to cut down kitchen work
16
Cooking, Kitchens

Biggest appetite
22
Food consumption, New York (N.Y.) (Food supply, Industries, Markets)

Comeback of the sockeye
32
International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission, Salmon

Shopper's delight
38
Supermarkets

Biggest vegetable factory on earth
40
Seabrook Foods, Inc

Farmer and his government
44
Land tenure, Agriculture (Economic aspects), Farm produce (Prices), Farmers

Mr Benson and Mr Bruene talk it over
58
Ezra Taft Benson; 1899-1994

Traditional dishes that do us proud
61
Cooking, American

U.S. goes out to lunch
67
Lunches, United States (Social life and customs)

Amid all this plenty, ouch!
72
Digestive system (Diseases)

World's corniest building
77
Theater buildings, Mitchell (S.D.)

How beef gets to beef-eating nation
78
Meat industry

Lit-up leviathan for lettuce
80
Vegetables (Harvesting)

Search for a future of plenty
83
Food research

Vote, verdict and a vision
90
Current events

There goes the fastest man on the face of the earth
92
John Paul Stapp; 1910-1999, Aviation (Physiological aspects)