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MagazineEntry/Object ID
2015.099.0018Scope and Content
Life Magazine, July 5, 1948. One of a series of seven LIFE magazines from a 10 year period from 1947 to 1957. This year the price was raised to 20 cents an issue from 15 cents the previous year.
The cover features a squadron of F-84 Thunderjets which was an American turbojet fighter-bomber aircraft. Originating as a 1944 United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) proposal for a "day fighter". The plane was beset with multiple problems until the design matured only with the definitive F-84G introduced in 1951. The Thunderjet became the USAF's primary strike aircraft during the Korean War and was the first production fighter aircraft to utilize inflight refueling.
Another article describes how Joe Louis redeems himself against 'Jersey Joe' Walcott and leaves the ring to retire undefeated.
Man-Made Landscapes is an article with multiple dramatic full page and full two page photographs of man made changes in the west during the previous few years. Freeways and their overpasses, 'sky scraper' buildings, a large open pit copper mine in Utah, the growth of San Francisco, New Orleans, and the Jerry-build war towns, a photo of numerous oil rigs near Long Beach, and finally the power lines from the newly build dams.
LIFE was an American magazine that ran weekly from 1883 to 1972, published initially as a humor and general interest magazine. Time founder Henry Luce bought the magazine in 1936, solely so that he could acquire the rights to its name, and shifted it to a role as a weekly news magazine with a strong emphasis on photojournalism. LIFE was published weekly until 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, and as a monthly from 1978 to 2002.Collection
Benicia Arsenal Collection
