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February, 1940 |
10th Anniversary Issue – Eagle cover by A. Petruccelli. The USA, Industrialization, The Workers, 30,000 Managers, 32,000,000 Farmers, Great American Salesman, US Culture, Politics, Dispossessed, US Frontier |
G/VG |
$45.00 |
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Same – IN ORIGINAL SHIPPING BOX |
VG |
$55.00 |
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April, 1940 |
Cover by Paolo Garretto. Standard Oil of NJ, The Weather, We the People by Wendell L. Willkie, Allied Purchasing, Pratt & Whitney, Early American Old Spice, Red Hook Houses – 2 copies |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
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Same |
Fair/Good, rolled, edge stain |
$20.00 |
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June, 1940 |
Airport Runway from Plane by Joseph Binder. The |
G/VG, some spine damage |
$35.00 |
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July, 1940 |
Circus Wagon by Allen Saalburg. Great Lakes – Ships and Shore, |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
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Same |
Good |
$30.00 |
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August, 1940 |
Pipeline by Herbert Bayer. Hawaii, North Beach Airport, Airline Mechanic, Lockheed Aircraft Corp, Six Men in Management, Natural Gas, Abbott Laboratories, Synthetic Rubber, Troop Transport. Fortune Survey Insert – 4 copies |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
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Same |
Good |
$30.00 |
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September, 1940 |
Airplane Tail photo cover. Atlas for US Citizens, US Defense: The Armed Forces, Tanks, American Cyanamid, Pan-American Conference, Military Pilots, Howard Johnson, Fruehauf Trailer |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
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Sane |
Good |
$30.00 |
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October, 1940 |
Ship Propeller Blade by John F. Wilson. Nazi Agents in the US, US Defense, US and the World, Safeway Stores, The Candidates – Willkie & Roosevelt, Bausch & Lomb, Mexican Steel, Plastics in 1940 |
Not Available |
NA |
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November, 1940 |
White House by A. Petruccelli. Canada at War, American Steel Foundries, Alliance Ohio – Foundry Town, War and Peace, Hillman’s Labor Program, Future of Fashion, US Defense – The Dollars, War of Nerves – Fascists in the US, Communist Column, Foreign-Language Press, Lever Bros. |
Good |
$30.00 |
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December, 1940 |
Christmas cover by Joep Nicolas. US Foreign Policy, Chrysler Corp., Fleet Base, Friends Service Committee, Power, FAO Schwarz, Benedium Trees, United Artists, Universal Trading Corp. IN ORIGINAL SHIPPING BOX |
G/VG |
$45.00 |
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January, 1941 |
Winter scene photo cover by Otto Hagel. AD 1940, War Department,
Martin-Parry Corp. – War Baby, Bill Stout, American Can Co., First National
Bank in |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
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Same – 2 copies |
Good |
$30.00 |
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February, 1941 |
Submarine Torpedo Tube by George Giusti. Sun Oil, Sun Shipbuilding, The
Capehart Phonograph, Artillery, House of Heinz, Rich Refugees, White Truck, |
Not Available |
NA |
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March, 1941 |
Special Issue: Air Power. (Double retail price per copy - $2.00). Airplane Above Clouds photo cover. British Air Strategy, The New Battlefield, Military Planes Portfolio, U.S. Air Power, How Many Planes When?, United Aircraft, City of the Angels, Half a Million Workers, North American Way, Research and the Air, Wind Tunnels of Langley, Engine and Propeller, Air as a Trade Route, Captain Rickenbacker Looks Ahead, The Airman, The Struggle for the Air Lanes |
Not Available |
NA |
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April, 1941 |
Japanese Soldier & Buddha by Boris Artzybasheff. Bethlehem Steel, Steel Capacity, 77th Congress, Radio Turns South by William S. Paley, The Europeans, Greater East Asia, New China, Atlantic Convoy, Round Table Insert |
Good |
$35.00 |
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June, 1941 |
Union Carbide plant photo cover by Dmitri Kessel. Union Carbide I, How America Can Take the Offensive, US Naval Strategy, The Fighting Ship, Strike Doctors, Compania Textilera Argiuanabo S.A., Censorship, Basic English, US Highway System, Merchandiser of Securities |
Not Available |
NA |
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July, 1941 |
Ship at Dock by Robert Yarnall Richie. How Many Ships How Soon?, Ships For This War, Ugly Ducklings Ships, Union Carbide II, Mr. Jones Goes In for Guns, Soviet Industry, Grand Strategy in WWII, Prelude to Total War |
Not Available |
NA |
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August, 1941 |
Aviation Factory Worker Working on Wing Section – photo by Dmitri Kessel. SPECIAL ISSUE: Total War for the U.S. Political Map, Critical Areas in the War Effort, Price Fixing, War Economics, No War Without Labor, Transport, Materials, Civilian Mobilization, Portfolio of Posters, The Consumer, Political Warfare, Food Is Also Power, Economic Warfare, The People’s Army |
G/VG |
$45.00 |
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October, 1941 |
Baskets of Vegetables photo cover by Arthur Gerlach. Revolution in
Agriculture – 5 articles, The Heavy Bomber, Blue Prints for Destruction,
Bomber and Billy Mitchell, A.O. |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
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November, 1941 |
Supplement (only) – 10th Fortune Round Table on Demobilizing the War Economy. 20 pages |
G/VG |
$7.50 |
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March, 1942 |
Factory – Yard photo cover. Give Us Orders!, GE Does It, Will Davis of the War Labor Board, Plywood, 65 Billion Man Hours Needed, Camouflage, Race for Metals, Coming Struggle for Asia, Alaska – Bridge to Asia, One World – One War – Foldout color map insert |
Not Available |
NA |
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April, 1942 |
Woman War Worker – photo cover. India’s Day of Reckoning, Technological High Command, Fats and Oils, Mobilization, Sorensen of the Rouge (Ford), Royal Canadian Air Force, Conversion of Forry Laucks, Hollywood in Uniform, War and Politics, Free Market & the Future |
G/VG |
$40.00 |
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Same |
Good |
$35.00 |
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June, 1942 |
Symbol for Synthetic Rubber. The War of Distances, Who Should Get the Ships?, The Negro’s War, Atlantic Arena, They’re Crowding the Rails, Popguns on the Southern Front, Rubber: How Do We Stand, America and the FutureThe Greatest Man in Canada – Foldout Map Atlantic Arena |
Good, internal water stain |
$35.00 |
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August, 1942 |
The |
G/VG |
$40.00 |
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September, 1942 |
Services of Supply – Supply Ship cover by Allen Saalburg. Sears’s War, The
S.O.S., Pacific Arena, |
Good |
$35.00 |
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November, 1942 |
The Railroads Learn from War. The Middle East, The Draft, Report on |
Not Available |
NA |
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December, 1942 |
Christmas Front Porch in Wartime by Atherton. War in the East, Turnabout in Russia, Dow Goes Down to the Sea, Main Street Front, Food Rationing, What Became of the Stock Market, Hero: David Farragut, The Biologist Looks at Man by Julian Huxley |
Not Available |
NA |
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January, 1943 |
New AEF (Tank cover) by Bernard Lamotte. Air Navigation for Total War, Whose Manpower?, Second AEF – Portfolio, Chewing Gum at War, Hunger in Europe, Nathanael Greene, School for Statesmen, World Island Insert color map |
Good, very light internal stain, small corner cut back cover |
$35.00 |
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February, 1943 |
Crane Moving War Gun. Prepare To Occupy, The Army Supply Program, The
Margin Now Is Womanpower, |
G/VG, light internal stain |
$40.00 |
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March, 1943 |
Glass illustration. Inflation Can Still Be Checked, |
G/VG |
$40.00 |
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April, 1943 |
Engineering the House. Logic of the Air, |
Not Available |
NA |
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May, 1943 |
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Not Available |
NA |
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June, 1943 |
The War on the Farm. Food Will Win the War, What We Learned in |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
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Same – IN ORIGINAL SHIPPING BOX |
VG |
$45.00 |
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August, 1943 |
Festung Europa by Antonio Petruccelli. West Coast Earth Movers, Festung Europa, A Modern Foreign Policy, Mexico’s Modern Art, Mexico – One Year at War, Butler Manufacturing, Hot Springs Food Conference, Elias Hasket Derby, World Bank Proposals, The Promise of Television – 2 copies |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
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September, 1943 |
Seal of the |
Not Available |
NA |
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October, 1943 |
Matter. Soldiers, Jobs, and the Peace, A Modern Foreign Policy, Big Butter-and-Egg Man, Quality Control, To One-Millionth of an Inch, Troop Carrier Command, Into the Jungle, The Earth Movers III, Henry J. Kaiser, China’s Postwar Plans |
G/VG |
$40.00 |
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November, 1943 |
Traffic in the Air. Britain’s Balance Sheet, Engineering the Airways, State of the Nation, The Boom in Books, A Yaleman and a Communist, Road To Russia: A Portfolio, Hero: Thomas Jefferson, World Food Plans, Agenda for Philosophers, City Planning, The U. S. in the New World: Our Form of Government |
G/VG |
$40.00 |
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December, 1943 |
Approaches to |
G/VG |
$40.00 |
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January, 1944 |
Transition to Peace 194?, Overhauling the Cabinet, Oil Shortage, Jack & Heintz, House of Tata, First Canadian Army, Artist Travels the Oregon Trail in 1837, Planning a City. IN ORIGINAL MAILING BOX |
G/VG |
$40.00 |
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Same |
Good, ½ of one page removed |
$25.00 |
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Same |
Fair/Good, cover wear |
$15.00 |
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February, 1944 |
Plane on Compass – Army Air Training cover. Caribbean Laboratory, Nitrogen,
Why Should |
Good |
$30.00 |
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March, 1944 |
Bomb Exploding – Invasion Tactics photo cover. The Year of Invasion,
Retreat From the Pentagon, One War Boom Is Over, Peter Cooper, Army
Orientation, |
Good |
$35.00 |
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April, 1944 |
Special Issue devoted to |
Not Available |
NA |
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May, 1944 |
Trade, US and World Communications, Puerto Rico, Avondale Mills, Baron Keynes of Tilton, Quicksilver Bonanza, Henry David Thoreau, Buldings on the Farm, Andover School |
Not Available |
NA |
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June, 1944 |
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G/VG |
$40.00 |
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July, 1944 |
War Bonds cover. US & British Wartime Collaboration, Rubber on the
Rebound, Doctors of Management, Paul Bunyan, Security in the |
Not Available |
NA |
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August, 1944 |
Reconversion in Typewriters. Liberation Agenda, M. Jean Monnet of |
G/VG |
$40.00 |
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September, 1944 |
Surplus Disposal. The Explosive Middle East, Greyhound Bus, Report from |
Not Available |
NA |
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October, 1944 |
Colonial Policy. What Price Glory, If the War Ends Now, Commercial
Solvents, Parker Pen Company, Freight-Rate |
G/VG |
$30.00 |
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December, 1944 |
Taxes After the War, What Follows Liberation?, Rise of the Washington Post, Rock Island Revisited, US Medicine in Transition, Merchant Marine part 2, How Much in the Railroads?, Checks by the Million – 5 copies |
G/VG |
$30.00 |
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January, 1945 |
War of the Bombers, Freeing |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
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Same |
Good, back cover stains |
$20.00 |
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February, 1945 |
The Western States. Special Issue on the |
G/VG |
$30.00 |
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March, 1945 |
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G/VG |
$30.00 |
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April, 1945 |
Air Transport. US Meets USSR in Manchuria, War – Cash & Corporations,
The Pentagon, Loading and Supply, TWA, Americans Fly Everywhere – Paintings
by Tom Lea, Biggest Airport, Kent Copper, Cancer – Notes of Hope, |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
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May, 1945 |
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G/VG |
$35.00 |
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June, 1945 |
WWII Supply cover. One War to Go (Japan), US Meat in This War, Philips of Endhoven, New Transport Planes, Commander McDonald of Zenith Corp, Medals, Military Police, Battle for the Philippines – 3 copies |
G/VG |
$30.00 |
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July, 1945 |
Aircraft Carrier photo cover (USS Yorktown). State of Missouri, Bernard Gimbel – Top Merchant, Houghtons of Corning, Report from Manila, New Transport Planes, Building of Nicaro, US Navy – Carrier Notebook & The Pacific Sweep |
Good, spine tear |
$30.00 |
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August, 1945 |
New Locomotives – Train Wheels by Alexander Semenoick. |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
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Same |
Fair/Good |
$20.00 |
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September, 1945 |
The Air War on |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
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October, 1945 |
The Air War on |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
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November, 1945 |
Foreign Trade. Europe Overnight, |
Fair/Good, cover soiled |
$15.00 |
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December, 1945 |
Iron Ore Dilemma, Nurnberg Novelty, Reuther, Marshall Field - The Store, F-hp, Cotton, AG&E, Aftermath of War - Paintings by Ben Shahn, Ballet Boom – 2 copies |
Good |
$30.00 |
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January, 1946 |
Collins of Collinsville, The Veteran in the Valley, Amerada, Louis Marx - Toy King (with color photos), Face of Christ Portfolio, Before the Wars, DDT, American Productivity |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
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Same |
Fair/good, pencil marks on cover, some interior damp-staining |
$15.00 |
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February, 1946 |
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Not Available |
NA |
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March, 1946 |
World Rubber by Fernando Texidor cover. The OSS, Reversal in Rubber, Kaiser-Frazer Plant at Willow Run, War Surplus, Mobile After the Storm, Radio Soap Opera (with illustrations by Saul Steinberg), Japan's Road Back, Alfred Lee Loomis, The Nature of the Atom – 2 copies |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
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April, 1946 |
Housing. Housing Shortage, Bricks Without Straw?, Bill Hutcheson of the Carpenters Union, Where is Prefabrication?, Mr. Blandings Builds His Castle by Eric Hodgins (later renamed “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House” – movie made with Cary Grant & Myrna Loy in 1948), Big Dave Bohannon, Portfolio of American Homes, Fuller’s House |
Fair/Good, stained |
$12.50 |
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May, 1946 |
Food Scandal, Price Control, Aluminum Reborn, Sewell Avery & Montgomery Ward, Physics of the Bomb, Fly Fishing and Trout Flies, Freight by Air, Karl Marx |
Not Available |
NA |
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August, 1946 |
Mexican Group (“The New Rich”) by Antonio Ruiz cover. What’s Wrong with the Airlines, Willys-Overland, Taylor Instruments, Joseph Di Giorgio, Frozen Foods, Prior Beer, Two Frank Lloyd Wright Residences, Detroit Auto Worker, Good Fences Make Good neighbors |
G/VG |
$30.00 |
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Same |
Good, small damage at bottom edge |
$20.00 |
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September, 1946 |
A New Scale of Sky Speeds by Arthur Lidov cover. Revolution in Rayon, The Armed Forces, Flower McCormick, Testament of Henry Simons, Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., Thrust, Jet Propulsion, 57th Street |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
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Same |
Good, back cover stain |
$15.00 |
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October, 1946 |
African Gold Rush. British Coal Industry, Fira Benenson, Traffic Outage – New York’s Traffic Jungle, Rise of Raytheon, Magnetron, Cape Cod Cranberries, Sunroc Refrigeration, Music for the Home – Radio/Phonographs, Return of the West |
Not Available |
NA |
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December, 1946 |
Cover by Albert Lustig. The Boom: A Second Look, The Nurnberg Confusion, Old Age, The Myth of Uncle Sap, The Ruhr, Costume Jewelry, Thompson Products, Bikini (Atomic Test), Erewhon Revisited, Seven Golden Houses, Endless Voyage – Painting by Mitchell Siporin, What Women Want |
Not Available |
NA |
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January, 1947 |
Supreme Court 1947, Housing Mess, Fiberglas, The Watch, Hamilton Watch, Astrophysics, Bing Crosby Inc., Furniture Industry, Wool |
Not Available |
NA |
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March, 1947 |
Coal, Revolt Against Radio, Allied Stores, Cigarette Machine, Chemicals |
Not Available |
NA |
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April, 1947 |
Britain’s Railways, Republicans, Fuel Revolution, Ford Machine Corp, Confucius |
Not Available |
NA |
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May, 1947 |
Rebirth of Ford, Silicones, GE’s Wilson, Airline Squeeze, Textron, Sylvania Electric |
Good, cover wear |
$20.00 |
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June, 1947 |
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G/VG |
$25.00 |
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July, 1947 |
Cotton Textiles, Africa Copper Mines, Yachting, Coal, Bank of America, Circus Logistics, Ringling – 2 copies |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
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August, 1947 |
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Not Available |
NA |
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September, 1947 |
Hood Up on Old Auto Engine by Arthur Lidov. Honorable Discharge, C.I.T., Freezer Lockers, Hotel Boom & Design, Auto Racing, Zion |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
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October, 1947 |
Farmer, |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
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November, 1947 |
American Selling Issue. A&P, Pepsi, Bendix, J Walter Thompson, Buick, Ely & Walker |
Not Available |
NA |
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December, 1947 |
Madison Avenue, Unilever, Kaiser-Frazier, The Swiss, CARE Inc., Veblen, Isotopes |
Not Available |
NA |
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January, 1948 |
Unilever’s |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
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February, 1948 |
Unilever 3, Edison Bros. Shoes, Radio’s Armstrong (FM), Foreign Cars, GE & Weather, Florida |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
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March, 1948 |
Train Diesels. Pennsylvania RR, Lazari, Flexible Furniture, Bottled Gas, Poker |
Not Available |
NA |
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April, 1948 |
Money & Inflation Issue. New England Crisis, Southwest Rich,
Insurance, |
Not Available |
NA |
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May, 1948 |
TV Boom, Celanese Corp., Synthetics, |
Not Available |
NA |
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June, 1948 |
Ship’s Figurehead by Arthur Lidov. Cotton Textiles, Nabisco, Singapore, Atlantic Salmon, 2 pages of Salmon Fishing Flies, Grumman Aircraft, Andrew Carnegie – 2 copies |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
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July, 1948 |
Antitrust Campaign, GM Diesel, Bell & Howell, Indonesia, Davis Manufacturing, Harrisons & Crosfield – 2 copies |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
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Same |
Good |
$20.00 |
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August, 1948 |
Auto Design, Sears Roebuck, Small Town Theatre, Automatic Radio |
Not Available |
NA |
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September, 1948 |
RCA’s Television, Hong Kong Book, Carpets, Hoving, Seagram, Used Cars |
Good, ring mark on cvr |
$20.00 |
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October, 1948 |
Farm Mechanization cover by Lewandowski. Farm Mechanization, Mr. Dewey, Chrysler, The Scientists, Cincinnati Hotel, How to Control Inflation - 2 copies |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
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November, 1948 |
Sante Fe Railroad (workers – photo cover), Berlin Airlift, Energy Engineers, Bankers, Factories Portfolio, Businessman in Fiction |
G/VG |
$30.00 |
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December, 1948 |
Stirrings in Steelmaking, French Worker, May Stores, Churches & Business – 3 copies |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
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January, 1949 |
Atom & Businessman, Adam Smith on 7th Avenue, Champion Paper, Scrapmen, GOP |
Not Available |
NA |
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February, 1949 |
ECA, Creole Petroleum, Men of Dallas, Cosmic Rays – 2 copies |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
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March, 1949 |
American Men of Shipping by Arthur Lidov cover. Socialism, Minnesota Mining Co. (3M), The Shipping Men, Deep Sea Fishing |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
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April, 1949 |
New Haven Connecticut by Thomas Fransioli Jr. cover. Two Billion Dollar Failure in Japan, Capture of the New Haven Railroad, Movies: End of an Era?, Secretary Acheson, Low-Flight Landscapes, The Republican Party by Robert A. Taft |
G/VG |
$30.00 |
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May, 1949 |
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Not Available |
NA |
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June, 1949 |
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G/VG |
$25.00 |
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July, 1949 |
Farm Policy, TV Money, Insurance Men, |
Good – water stain |
$17.50 |
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August, 1949 |
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Not Available |
NA |
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September, 1949 |
Auto Market, Italian Farm Hand, Labor Relations |
Not Available |
NA |
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October, 1949 |
Modern Art of Printing, |
Not Available |
NA |
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November, 1949 |
US Roads, |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
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December, 1949 |
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Not Available |
NA |