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1946104 pages. Features: Nice one-page ad for Hilton Hotels features the Palmer House of Chicagp; Superb one-page color ad for Ford Trucks features green pickup in pleasant farm scene; Dow Chemical ad features illustration of kettle and steam inventor James Watt; (Labor) Strike Wave Threatens Essential U.S. Needs; Sam Rayburn - Texan; Joan Bennett's "Scarlet Street" is censored for 'tending to corrupt morals'; Photo of Jane Russell in low-cut blouse posing for painting; Fantastic color one-page Coke ad features crowded soda shop scene with boy singing into napkin holder microphone; Classic one-page color-photo ad for Camel cigarettes titled "More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette"; World Watches First Assembly of UNO; Photo of Mickey Rooney shaking hands with De Gaulle; Classic color ad for White Trucks features soda factory and happy end-user; Trial of Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma in Manila; Religious Emancipation is the Jap's by MacArthur's Grace; Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan, chief of UNRRA's activities in Germany, states that the movement of Jews from Poland into Germany looked like a "second Exodus... a well-organized, positive plan to get out of Europe" to Palestine, and that he had seen Jews arriving in Berlin "well-dressed, well-fed, rosy-cheeked and (with) plenty of money..They certainly do not look like persecuted people."; U.S. Need to keep peace pledges slows homeward trek of troops; A Safe American Must be founded on Strength; Nice Firestone Tire color centerfold features race car; Nice Old Thompson whiskey ad features piano keyboard; Photo of ex-POW Pvt. Cleo Brown and his bride in Milwaukee hotel; Photos of changing Navy fashions; Doukhobor article with stripping photo; Oil strike in Chile; Color photo ad for Chrysler features Andre Kostelanetz leading orchestra; Classy one-page color ad for the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation; Brief obituaries for William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw); Hector Charlesworth; William T. Dewart Jr., Slim Summerville; Germ Warfare Article with photo of Major Merck inspecting Camp (Fort) Dietrich laboratories - US was set for biological war more terrible than enemy knew; Rare Great Northern Railway ad features the opening of modern China (very prescient); SN 7618 for Malaria; photo of Lt. Col. Margaret Craighill; Great photo ad by the Cuban National Tobacco Commission features Edward G. Robinson lighting up; Article on Branch Rickey; Jockey Woolf, 1909-1946; Sensational one-page color ad for Grace Line features illustrations of their new fleet of twenty "Santa" ships; Rare one-page ad for Cuba Mail Line entitled "Ice Cubes for Cuba" shows happy family table; Curious ad for National Company's Radios features small illustration of 'slant-eyed' Chinaman above text "Gung Ho"; The Press, the Radio, and Mr. La Guardia; Color-photo ad for Canadian Club features mountain climbing on Mexico's Popocatepetl; and more. Average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1946104 pages. Features: Nice 2/3-page ad for the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York; Nice one-page two-color ad for International Harvester features their trucks, crawlers and farm tractors; Nice one-page ad for the new Kaiser and Frazer, America's First 1947 Motor Cars; Nice Mercury color car ad; Color-photo Caterpillar ad shows their heavy equipment building levee; Nice New York Central ad features illustration of lady passenger sleeping in large sleeper compartment; Reproduction of notice by David Silberman of the Cap-Tin Development Corp. "A Pleas from a Bewildered Small Business Man"; Photo of German POWs awaiting transit back to Germany; Atomic Bomb - Greatest Show on Earth; Classy color one-page ad for the Farnsworth Television & radio Corporation; Anglo-Soviet Interests collide at UNO; Photo of GI bride Mathilde Dermarinius being paid to watch scary movie; Four photos of Japanese being cleaned and deloused at Sasebo; MacArthur bans sale of Japanese girls into prostitution; Sanji Nozaka - leader of the Japanese Communist Party; Operation Crossroads - Navy sends 100 vessels to take blows of new weapon - atomic bomb; Nice red REO Truck ad; First batch of GI kids and brides sail from Britain to New York; Good Year color centerfold ad (loose but present) shows black laborers harvesting cotton; Hotel New Yorker ad features photo of Manuel Sanchez; GI's ask Ike for permission to marry German girls; Carl A. Spaatz; Canadian Earl Roberts Graham of Vegreville, Alberta, teaches people to kiss - article and photos; Strike fever spreads to Japan - weakly; Photo of Colonel Councill - coast-to-coast by P-80 in 253 minutes; Radar bounces off Moon to throw light on lunar riddle; Shift to letter language may teach Japs to Think; Baseball player Melvin Ott; Canadian M.P. Wilfred Kennedy McDonald is bone-crushing hockey player Bucko McDonald - article with photo; Article and photo on Bob Feller; Super one-page color-photo Boeing ad features the double-decked Strotocruiser; Difficult conditions for newborns in Italy; 25th Anniversary of Planned Parenthood; Photo and article on Johnny Desmond; The State is a Faithless Trustee; Color-photo Canadian Club ad inside back cover features Portugal; Charming color Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover features Claudette Colbert; and more. Opening to top of coverfold. Average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1946112 pages. Features: Nice color Nash car ad inside front cover; Nice one-page Lockheed ad features cutaway illustration of their Constellation aircraft; Great one-page photo ad for Jeep shows its unique applications; Nice color Borden's ad features Elsie the Cow; *Sweet* one-page color 1946 Lincoln car ad; 10,000 tons of horsemeat will be sent to Europe in 1946; Should Japan be annexed or put under U.N. trusteeship; One-page color ad for National City Bank features painting by Rockwell Kent and photo of John Willett; Famine Specter Stalks Old World in footsteps of war and crop failure; German fashion photos; Photo of Rudolf Hess and review of his (alleged) offer to the British; Photo of election rally in Russia; Nice color Kodachrome ad; Attractive color TWA ad; Palestine - Wrong Raid - Jewish terrorists raid the King's African Rifles camp near Tel Aviv; The Ainu Comes Back; Canada tests its icebound barrens with column of mechanized troops - "The Musk-Ox Trail"; Air Force finds danger in peace that takes its most skilled men; Attractive color-illustrated Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. ad shows train stopped by snow; How Bikini became the Bomb-Testing Ground; British war brides arrive stateside; Housing program latest answer to inflation -strike - shortage riddle; Nice color Kinsey whiskey ad; Behncke guides pilots' union; Nice one-page ad for Porto Rico Line "Who Made Rosita's New Dress?"; Nice New Haven Railroad ad; The Army's Eniac Computer - a roomful of brain (with photo); Color one-page ad for Seiberling Tires; Lord Calvert Whiskey ad features color portrait of actor John Boles; Cute one-page Dixie Cup ad features young boy with soda; Classy 2/3-page two-color ad for Gaylord Boxes; Boxing's Nat Fleisher; Hoopster Red Rolfe - photo; Photo-illustrated article on composer Bartok; Nice color Schlitz Beer ad shows charming outdoor gathering; George Arliss, 1868-1946; Japs escape to movies for Love and no Kisses; Metro. Oakland, California ad shows large tracts of land awaiting development; Ad for New Hampshire encourages industrial development; and more. Clear tape along spine. Average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1946100 pages. Features: Attractive one-page color ad for Dodge Trucks features bright yellow moving van; Seattle's worst earthquake in history; Mrs. Helen Douglas Mankin wins Atlanta's Negro vote; Color ad for General Tire features well-dressed lady with lots of luggage being helped by black porter; Classy color ad for the Farnsworth Television and radio Corporation; Two-page poem commemorates the first anniversary of the Iwo Jima battle; Canadian exposure of spy ring turns doubting eyes on Russia - major article with photo; Nice one-page ad for the Banff Springs Hotel; Attractive color ad for Ford cars features ski scene; Young UNO closes first session with hope, suspicion, and a veto; Photos of Francisco Franco; Field Marshal von Paulus; Sir Sholto Douglas; Photo of Mohammed Ali Jinnah; The bravest padre - Maj. John Weir Foote, Presbyterian chaplain of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry is awarded the VC; Brief obituaries for Dr. William Allan Neilson, Cornelius Johnson and Adolph Lorenz; Army posters to help soldiers adapt to civilian life; Tuberculosis germ killer; Photo and article of artist Alberto Vargas; Nice color-photo ad for the Boeing Stratocruiser; American Cyanamid color ad shows smiling coal delivery man iun bomber jacket; Dr. Henry A. Jones experiments with onions; Uneasy Swedes wonder what future holds; Photos of the lightweight Bobbi car; Aerial photo of downtown Chicago promotes the area for industrial development; Hotel New Yorker ad features photo of John H. Sienold, Banquet Manager; Photos of American Cardinals; The Secret of "Huff-Duff" (radio direction finder) can be told - as part of ITT ad; Picasso of the Camera - Edward Weston; ad for Dr. Grabow pipes; and more. Covers holding by one staple. Average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
194696 pages. Features: Nice one-page ad for the Lockheed Constellation features illustration of cabin scene in-flight; Attractive color Ford ad features Green car being loaded with luggage; photo of Robert Moses of Chicago wins bubble-blowing contest; Ku Klux Klan article with photo of burning cross and shrouded members; Russian Spy - Nicolai Gregorovich Redin; New Gropings with the Atom; Cordell Hull prepares memoirs; Nice color-photo Camel cigarette ad says "More Doctors Smoke Camels"; Very nice color one-page Coke ad features spring cleaning scene; Gromyko walks out of UNO; Ad for the Town House Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles; Very cute color Schlitz beer ad features bear in nighshirt raiding fridge at night; Guns over Trieste; The Austrian Larder; Arthur Axmann - article with photo; Famine news from Europe; Possible trouble in India - with photo of Gandhi; Trouble for Jewish sports team in Vienna; Shanghai - inflation and theft; Kendo photo from Japan - it has been outlawed by the Allies; Very nice color centerfold ad for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Nice one-page color-portrait of Mr. Mervyn Le Roy in Calvert Whiskey ad; Ontario liberalizes liquor laws; Five more persons accused of Russian spying in Canada; The Capitolio Diamond Mystery; Argentina fears Yankee 'Nazi' threat; Brief obituaries for Noah Beery Sr., Charles F. Hurley, Martin L. Davey, George Washington, Field Marshal Viscount Gort; Shirley Jane Vetter regains sight after her baby is born; Oil - the big three tangle in the middle east; Color Union Pacific ad features Utah's Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks; Yellow Bole Pipe ad; Mr. Baruch on the Extension of OPA; Billiard article and photo on Willie Mosconi; Attractive one-page color ad for the Martin 2-0-2 aircraft; Gerald Kersh lifts veil on sordid side of London; Color-photo Studebaker ad shows Don Wyman and his father grinding metal while J.F. Rogers and son Peter perform heat-treating; and more. Above-average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
194698 pages. Features: Nice color Nash car ad inside front cover; What became of swimmer Trudy Ederle; Rare one-page photo ad for Sikorsky Aircraft featuresS-51; Classy color ad for Lincoln cars - "Nothing Could Be Finer"; Color ad for Borden's instant coffee features 'dumb' husband serving wife in twin bed; Neat Jeep ad shows Jeep on side with arrows indicating design features such as PTO (power take off) at front and back; Fifteen photos of Harry Truman accompany article on him; Tony Doto - a soldier trained to kill has trouble in civilian life; Mr. Truman's plan for the Middle East; What price Soviet-Iranian Accord? - with photo of Dr. Ali-Akbar Daftary and his daughter, Iran Ala; Middle East - Bevin, Pashas, and Peoples; Herbert Hoover pleads for food for children; Manchurian scramble in China; Photo of Hirohito; Nice color-photo Kodachrome ad; Nice color centerfold ad for Jones & Laughlin Steel features over the road freighting illustration - before steel; The New France watches the Rhine; Velasco Ibarra loses friends in Ecuador; Brief obituaries for C. Oscar Strand, Thomas Dixon, and composer Vincent Youmans; Photo of 13-year-old Jerry Mullen of Los Angeles having glass removed from his backside - the 15th trip to hospital for this accident-prone boy; Nice one-page ad for Western Air Lines - America's Pioneer Airline; National black market in lumber - 'peckerwood' sawmills; The town of Arlington, MO is sold by Fred Pillman for $10,000 - with photo; Nice Delta Airlines ad; Nice one-page color ad for the Gilbert Paper Company of Menasha, Wisconsin, provides aerial illustration of their snow-bound plant; Nice ad for Gaylord Boxes; and more. Above-average wear and soiling. Clear tape along coverfold. Back cover missing. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1946108 pages. Features: Nice color Chrysler ad inside front cover shows prosperous family and emphasizes imagination and safety; Classic one-page Bell Telephone ad shows pretty switchboard operator holding wire; Kelly Springfield Tire ad shows fashionable sidewalk scene; Nice Hilton ad features The Stevens Hotel in Chicago; Classy one-page color ad for Florsheim two-tone shoes; Nice color Ford car ad presents the (red) 1946 convertible; Intriguing one-page ad by Warner & Swasey called "Did Hitler Win the War?" provides text explaining how a lack of co-operation between France's labor, management and government led to the fall of that nation, thus co-operation is required for victory; Nice one-page photo-illustrated Pan American World Airways ad promotes their worldwide cargo service; Food - scarcer and scarcer; Beautiful photos of the many daughters of Daniel O'Neil in Boston with Mgr. Francis A. Burke; Mr. Truman and the Navy; Great one-page color ad for General Tire features golf theme; How tomorrow's war will be fought; Photos of UN offices in Sperry building and New York World's Fair building; Japanese women vote for first time; China - Civil War; Photos of beatings in Italy; Russian General Vassily D. Sokolovsky; News of the world in Russian; Tractors of gold on the Canadian prairies; Genuinely unique one-page two-color ad entitled "Mad dog!" by the America Fore insurance company shows angry dog and photo of car, the interior of which has been torn to shreds by a dog which was locked in it; Brief obituaries for George Ernest May, Lyle Saxon and Viscount Southwood; Photo of German V-2 rocket on launch pad in White Sands, NM where it wll soon be launched to conduct upper atmosphere research; Nice one-page ad for Fruehauf Trailers features Creighton Bros. leghorn chicken breeders; Article and photo of Theodore (Ted) Samuel Williams; Photo of Boston Red Sox Manager Joe Cronin; Tasteful one-page ad for McCall's Magazine features painting by John Koch; Great photo of Arthur Callenstein of Chicago playing marbles; Milller High Life Beer ad shows black many in white jacket holding ttray of beer; Weird Kreml Hair Tonic illustrated ad; A New Socialist International?; and more. Average wear and soiling. Please note: centerfold ad missing, otherwise a worthy vintage copy. Book
194696 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Mercury cars inside front cover; Photo of Dr. Bertha Lutz of Brazil; Nice early one-page ad for Northwest Airlines includes large table of their new flights and low fares; Great color-photo ad for Caterpillar called "Grand Canyon of the Mesabi" features massive iron ore excavation; Nice one-page ad for International Trucks; Food - that a hungry world may eat; Photo of fire at Barrett plant of Allied Chemical in Philadelphia; Photo of baby Betty Lou Hall kissing President Truman; Juvenile delinquency; Is 1946 another 1920?; Great one-page Boeing ad for their Stratocruiser shows cute little boy in cabin gazing out window; The Lichfield trial over brutality to prisoners; Nice Kaiser-Frazer car ad; Great one-page color Cadillac ad shows imposing red grill; Conflict in China; Prince Morimasa Nashimoto leaves Sugamo Prison; Photo of General Douglas MacArthur inspecting honor guard in Tokyo; Nice one-page ad for Good Housekeeping Magazine shows fashionable lady reading; Before and after photos of the hanging of Hungarian police major Laszlo Baky; The controversy of the Anglo-American command; Nice one-page color ad for TWA announces they are the first to put the Constellation in the air; Photo of blind war bride Mary Martin who married Sgt. George Alkenbrack and now lives in Napanee, Ontario; One-page ad for the Country Gentleman Magazine shows crop-duster in action; brief obituaries for Harlan Fiske Stone, Arthur Chevrolet, Walter E. Dandy, and John Maynard Keynes; Creepy photo of soldier wearing night vision equipment called snooperscope; Superman article features photo of Clayton Collyer, the radio actor-announcer who plays Superman; Gold - the South African find and the world's wealth; Stocking - leg bootleg; Color ad for National City Bank of New York features paingint of rubber tappers in Malaya plus photo of Raymond G. Hill, Singapore Supervisor; Nice ad for Trav-Ler radio; The OPA reaps the whirlwind; One-page ad for Redbook Magazine; New York Yankee Pitcher Spurgeon Chandler; Legend for Canadians - photo of Coulter and Willan who used folklore for Canada's first opera; Photo of Beverly Anne Cort performing a risque dance in the Detroit suburb of Van Kyke; Nice one-page color Budweiser ad features young boy returning from fishing with his catch, while envious adults look on; Nice color-photo ad for Canadian National features Jasper, Alberta and its lodge (with small inset color photo of Minaki Lodge in Ontario); Vindictive treatment of Stalin by Trotsky; The Faith of Harold Stassen; Nice color-photo Canadian Club ad inside back cover features Juan Belmonte, Spain's great bullfighter; Nice back cover color ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features man in suit who learned his ABCs (Always Buy Chesterfields); and more. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1947108 pages. Features: Nice color Nash car ad inside front cover; Very nice color ad for Ford Trucks features Mr. Brice Woody, Manager of the Gillespie Ranch of Tishomingo, Oklahoma; National Dairy Products Corp. ad features young boy posing like The Massive Massimo, whose illustration appears on the wall behind him; Texaco ad for their Havoline motor oil features colour illustration of bowler; Photo of 6'-9" basketball player Harry Boykoff; Nice color ad for red Dodge convertible; Interesting stylized color art ad for the state of Idaho/Container Corp. of America; Boeing ad features photo of their B-50 and C-97; Joseph Curran states the case against Communism in the National Maritime Union (NMU); Photo of the Zarief quadruplets of Brooklyn, NY with their mother; Obituary of Henry Ford; After the Lilienthal Debate; Good Year color ad features the massive XB-36 bomber and is massive tires; Lejon Brandy color ad; Japan - signals of economic storm - with horrible photo of homeless mother and child asleep; Photo of Marines departing China by train - with air escort to guard railway; Korea - America's most immediately serious problem in the Far East; Egypt - good-bye to the British; Belgium - paradox in peace; Message from Stalin to Bevin; Nice color Lucky Strike ad features farmer holding tobacco leaf; Nice color-photo portrait of Golfer Craig Wood in Lord Calvert Whiskey ad; Photo of British Royal family standing beside 7'-3" Cornelius Mostert of the Transvaal; General de Gaulle is divided into two parts; CCF (NDP and Premier Thomas (Tommy) Douglas race to success in Saskatchewan (with photo); Photo of bomb damage in Havana; Brief obituaries of Franz Seldte, The Marquess of Salisbury and Bessie Beatty; Nice two-color one-page ad for International Harvester crawlers in oil field; Rare and fantastic one-page photo ad for The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company (FWD) featuring a FWD towing trailer with power shovel up seven percent grade; Photo of Mount Hekla volcano in Iceland; Dr. Otto Robert Frisch; America Fore Insurance ad features six graphic photos of damage against which they protect; Captain Bill Beecher of the County Fair radio program; Nice color Borden's ad features Elsie the Cow; Lawsuit over Superman - Joe Shuster, Jerry Siegel and Harry Donenfeld/Detective Comics, Inc.; Baltimore cartoonist Quincy (Moco) Yardley, whose little beret-topped kibitzer brings a breakfast-table laugh to newspaper readers; Coal and the emergence of John L. Lewis; Leon Mandel of Mandel Bros. Department store offers workers a library and many other nice amenities; Our Fiscal Irresponsibility - article by economist Henry Hazlitt; Photos of major league baseball managers and their comments on their teams; The Color Question in Baseball - Satchel Paige and Josh Gibsons; Promotional one-page ad for Greater New Orleans; Nice color one-page ad for New York Central; Nice color-photo ad for McCall's Magazine; Knott Hotels ad features Sandusky, Ohio; Nice color Kinsey Gin ad features three Martini recipes; Impressive color-photo ad for Norfolk and Western Railway shows huge flaming rail wheel being fiited via heat expansion; Seagram's Gin color ad features photos of original early American flasks from the collection of George S. McKearin; Outlaw American Communism; and more. Above-average wear and soiling. Spine tapled. A worthy vintage copy. Book
194796 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Pan American World Airways inside front cover features travel to Guatemala; B.F. Goodrich ad features photo of huge articulated bus owned by Santa Fe Trailways; Gillette shaving blade ad features speedskater Irving Jaffee; Nice color ad for Ford cars; Former Soviet official Kiril M. Alexeieff; Russian shortwave broadcasts to America; Nice color General Tire ad; What Stalin said to Montgomery; Plymouth car ad; Photo of Kelly the Clown; Poland harassed by 170,000 Russian-trained security police; Behind the Japanese Purge - American Military Rivalries; Britain's postwar moral climate; Brief obituaries for Jean-Marie Cardinal Villeneuve, James T. (Jimmy) Sheckard, Lt. Gen. Daniel I. Sultan, and Pedro Leao Velloso; Nice International Truck ad features oil drilling scene; Accused murderer William Heirens, University of Chicago student; Photo of Polio virus isolators Drs. Hubert S. Loring and C.E. Schwerdt; Father of Radio - Lee de Forest; Color ad for the Lockheed Constellation aircraft features Rio party scene; Henry Hazlitt writes on "Stabilizing" the Economy; New York Yankee article with photo of Trippe who spurned them for Charles Bidwill of the Cardinals; Nice color-photo ad for McCall's Magazine; Freeze the RFC; and more. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1947100 pages. Features: Nice color Nash car ad inside front cover; Up from the Ranks - two-page Bell Telephone ad features photos of 17 Presidents of their operating telephone companies; Classy color Dodge ad features red car and snowman; Borden's ad features Elsie the Cow; Claude Pepper; Kenneth Romney; GI Wives "Living in Squalor"; Very classy color ad for Monnet Cognac; Observations on General Marshall; Europe - cold hands and empty plates; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Northwest Orient Airlines; Exploded truce in Palestine - bombing at Haifa police station; Russia acts for Spitsbergen base; Nice color Lucky Strike ad features farmer holding big tobacco leaf; Lt. Gen. Lucius DuBignon Clay; Nude photo of Evan Braun's sister by waterfall; Photo of Eva Braun flirting with Nazi treasurer Franz Xaver Schwarz; Photo of Eva Braun doing backbend in barely visible swimsuit - all three of these photos taken by Hitler's private photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann; Marshall's spotlight on China; Vietnam - old wine in new bottles; Photo of Barbara Ann Scott; Boeing ad features photo of Stratocruisers; Photo of Bernard Baruch who has withdrawn from public life; Brief obituaries for Herman Bing, Dr. Victor Robinson, Charles Sumner Woolworth and Eva Tanguay; Globe-trotting astronomer Dr. Harlow Shapley; Photos of British undersea canoe!; (MSC - motorized submersible canoe); Nice color ad for Martin Aircraft; Dexter Masters explains the atom to the masses; Aviation - photo of installation of Ground Controlled Approach at Washington; ICS one-page ad features photos of Van A. Bittner and Wayne A. Johnston; Photo of Howard Hughes re: TWA cuts; TVA = Red Ink Valley?; Photo of helicopter shuttling mail in New York City; Henry Hazlitt explains "How to Reduce the Budget"; Dornicks at Ten Paces; Photo of runner Elmore Harris; Great diving photo - students of the Sparling school prepare to go under in big diving suits; Two-page Newsweek ad; Great photo ad for Skylift forklifts; and more. Middle page holding by one staple. Covers loose but present. Above-average wear and soiling. Clear tape along spine. A worthy vintage copy. Book
194772 pages. Features: Giving credit to Ed Uhl, AUS, for his help in the development of the bazooka; Nice International Harvesteer ad presents their crawlers, tractors and trucks; Nostalgic ad for the Highway Trailers Company; Sugar still rationed; Photo and article on W.C. Fields; Soviet Army pulls out of central Europe; Nice color Nash car ad; Indo-Chinese Puzzle; 22nd World Zionist Congress wraps up answering No to the question "Should the Congress authorize the Jewish Agency to participate in the London conference on Palestine in January?"; Irgun captures British troops and flogs them; Memories of the Soviet Censor III; Color ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes features farmer holding tobacco leaf; Photo of Ambassador George S. Messersmith; Brief obituaries for W.C. Fields, Baron Robert Philip De Rothschild, John Barton, Mrs. Carrie Jacobs Bond and Hugh R. Wilson; Photos of Tiny Tim rocket test; Nice color-photo portrait of Mr. Hiroam U. Helm, distinguished rancher, in Calvert Whiskey ad; Nice color ad for Frazer and Kaiser cars; Student of children, Arnold Gesell; "Star of Cairo" plane crash; Henry Hazlitt writes on the "Purchasing Power" theory; World Series article; Photo of tennis players Ted Schroeder and Jack Kramer; Hermon H. Scott and his Dynamic Noise Suppressor in broadcasting studio; The Irrepressible Taft-Dewey Conflict; Canadian Club color photo ad features diving off the Dodecanese Islands; Great back cover color ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features Jo Stafford and Perry Como; and more. Covers heavily-worn and loose but present. Above-average wear and soiling. Clear tape along spine. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1939Pages 225-309 plus twenty-seven pages of marvelous vintage ads. Features: The People of Canada; Canada's Forests - dozens of wonderful photos of forests and early logging scenes/practices; Canada's Debt to the Indians; Across Canada by Air - article with many fantastic photos of Canada's early days of passenger aviation; Big Ben and the Clock Tower, Westminster; Itinerary of His Majesty King George VI and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth; and more. Some of the best ads include: McLaughlin-Buick; National Steel Car Corporation of Malton, Ontario; Columbia Icefield (Canadian National); Fleet Aircraft of Fort Erie; Northern Electric; Canadian Colonial Airlines. Average wear and soiling. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
1942Pages 111-158 plus sixteen pages of nice vintage ads. Features: Canada's Aircraft Industry - dozens of excellent photos of manufacturing and the key people behind it; Against the Dutch East Indian Backdrop - a look at Borneo - article with nice photos; Flying and the Telephone; and more. Some of the best ads include: Lovely Ontario Wines two-color ad inside front cover; General Electric (instruments for Canadian bombers); Malton's National Steel Car; The Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario (features illustration of military aviator). Bit of writing atop front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
1947Pages 249-293 plus seventeen pages of nice vintage ads. Features: An Introduction to Canadian Architecture - major article with dozens of photos; Britain's Trees and Forests; Lawren Harris; PICAO into ICAO - International Civil Aviation Organization; and more. Some of the ads include: 1947 Mercury 114 car; The Monarch 8 car; Canadian Pacific - great one-page color ad for their train travel and Empress Hotel. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1954Pages 167-204 plus 20 pages of nice vintage ads. Features: Yellowknife - Town of the Air Age - many wonderful photos; Soldiering at Fort Henry - many excellent illustrations; Pictures of the Provinces - III; (Camouglaged) Eggs in the Land of the Midnight Sun; and more. Some of the nicer ads include: Colour one-page Lord Calvert Whiskey ad features Irish Setter Champion Ace Flyer of Aragon, owned by Gertrude W. Drew of Toronto; Nice colour ad for the 1954 Monarch car features a black on red Lucerne Coupe; Nice colour ads for Chevrolet and Chrysler cars; Back cover photo ad for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) features photo of pilot and navigator in front of their CF-100 jet fighter. Moderate wear. Small name stamp inside front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
195740 Pages plus fourteen pages of nice vintage ads. Features: Cover illustration is A.Y. Jackson's "Yellowknife Bay"; Louisiana French; The National Trust of Britain; Machu Picchu; Upper Canada and New York State; and more. Nice one-page two-colour recruiting ad for the RCAF; Attractive 1957 DeSoto car ad inside back cover; Back cover black and white photo ad for BOAC features couple being served a gourmet meal on-board. Taped repairs to damage at upper corner of front cover, otherwise a sound and unmarked copy. Magazine
193670 pages. Features: Lovely colour ad for British Consols cigarettes inside front cover; Nice Birks-sponsored ad for Challenger Watches features photo of British film star Anna Neagle; Editorial - Money and the Christmas Spirit - an argument for people to spend liberally; Should Canada Increase Her Navy? - an urgent plea for greater protection of our merchant ships; Rah, Rah, Russia! - America's communist "Commonwealth College" (near Mena, Arksnsas) - article with photos, including Dr. Lucien Koch; Nice one-page colour ad for Good Year studded tires shows car plowing through mud; When That Day Comes (short story); Peaking Under the Mat - wrestler Norton B. Jackson reveals some piquant secrets behind the groans and grimaces of a gay and goofy game; The Fourth Bride (short story); For the Ladies - with content and photo of Belinda Jelliffe; He Learned About Women (short story); Glimpses of the Canadian Scene; Music in His Feet (part 1 of 2); Nice one-page two-colour ad for Philip Morris cigarettes; Fantastic two-colour centerfold ad for the line of 1937 Chevrolet cars includes eight illustrations; Underworld Nights - new revelations from Mildred Harris and "Cokey" Flo who helped clinch the case against "Lucky" Luciano; Wise Virgin (part 2); Thank-you, Thank-you, So Much! - a chronicle of the storm-tossed way of a maid at 17; More Private Flying - article on the future of aviation with photo of Eugene L. Vidal; Fantastic one-page colour ad for Sheaffer's Lifetime Feathertouch pen; Paul H. Wendel Tells All - "My 44 days of kidnapping, torture and hell in the Lindbergh case" - article with photos (part 4); Handsome colour one-page ad for the 1937 Ford V-8; Lovely Christmas-themed colour ad for Arrow Shirts inside back cover; Classy colour ad for Community Plate cutlery on back cover. Front cover nearly detached due to nibbling along coverfold, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Magazine
195762 pages. Features: Nice two-color ad for Scout equipment inside front cover; A Cadet Called "Ike" (Eisenhower); The Hurricane Mystery; Nice one-page black and white photo ad for Ford cars; A Day at the National Jamboree; Lion in the Way; Tracking; Top Athletes of 1956 - article with photos; 1956 Photo Contest Winners; Nice two-page two-color ad for the Junikor Sales Club of America features Mickey Mantle; 12 pages of color cartoons and illustrations; Rivers in the Sky - jet streams; One-page black and white photo ad for Chrysler cars; and much more. Bit of scribbling atop front cover. Somewhat above-external wear. A sound vintage copy of this nice Scout collectible. Book
198568 pages. Features: Lots of footbal and baseball coverage; Bill Veeck's views on the Pittsburgh drug trials; Photo of Tony Fernandez spraying champagne on Manny Lee as Blue Jays win pennant; Photo of Buffalo Bills' Justin Cross playing golf with one arm (as the other is broken); Phil Niekro's 300th win - article with photo; Harry Neale is new Detroit Red Wings' coach - photo; Article on Glen Sather; Big Heads Biggest Foe for Edmonto Oilers - article with photo of Gretzky with Paul Coffey; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1912Pages 147-246 plus approximately 50 pages of ads, front and back. Contents: The Church and the People; The Adventure of Being Human; The Passing of a Brigadier; Judson Harmon - His Record and His Views; Savings or Efficiency? - second article on home making series; The Woman Spoke - article on native americans with quote by Chief Iron Eye of the Omahas; Art and the Average Man; Teaching Our Soldiers to Shoot - photo-illustrated article; The Story of Karl Witte - first of a series of articles on the progress and training of the child; Yankee Doodle in the style of the classical composers; From Stage Coach to Motor Car - great photo-illustrated article on early motoring. Many wonderful vintage ads including a great one-page ad for Rexall "93" Hair Tonic; Heinz Soup, Post Toasties, 2-page ad for R.M. Owen & Co. / Reo Motor Car Co. featuring Reo the Fifth, Quaker Oats - with photo of Prof. A.P. Anderson "The Man Who Invented Foods Shot From Guns", Educator Crackers, Van Camp's Pork and Beans, Dioxogen, Cheney Silks, Strathmore Paper, Hotel Chamberlin (Virginia), Santa Fe California Limited, Hamburg American Line ad for West Indies Cruise, Pebeco Toothpaste, Ostermoor Mattresses, Mott's Plumbing, The Columbia Buggy Company - featuring the self-starting 1912 Model 68-D, The Buick Model 35, Diamond Tires, American Woolen Company, and many more. Two library ink stamps to front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
192812 pages approximately 8" x 8" folded in half to make effectively 24 pages measuring approx. 8" x 4". Printed upon glossy stock. Black and white photos. Proposes fourteen days of activities/destinations for tourists to the Vancouver area. These include: Stanley Park and Marine Drive, English Bay Beach, Indian River Park, Grouse Mountain Resort, Grand Canyon Park and Capilano Canyon, B.C. Electric Observation Car and Crystal Pool, Bowen Island, Union Steamship Northern Trip, New Westminster and Cheakamus Canyon, Horseshoe Bay and the C.N.R. Triangle Tour, Vancouver Golf Courses, Hollyburn Ridge, West Vancouver, Squamish and Howe Sound, Lynn Canyon, Harrison Hot Springs, The Cariboo Road, and Vancouver Island Includes a great 3-panel aerial illustration of the lower mainland by H.E. White, looking inland from the southwest (there was no YVR in those days). Moderate wear. Unmarked. A high-quality example of this magnificent early Vancouver tourism booklet, undoubtedly highlighted by the colour illustration of a young lady in period swimwear on the beach at English Bay. Absolute magic! Book
194952 pages. Features: Cover photo of Dorothy Vanstone boating in Honey Harbor in Georgeon Bay; Great colour ad for International excavating equipment inside front cover; The Family of the Palace - the Windsors live on a pedestal where their people want them; Los Angeles - The Wackiest Town in the World - article wiith photos; The Night of Mr. Waddy - story by Will F. Jenkins - illustrated by W.A. Winter; Would You Live Better in the U.S.? - a detailed test to see if our lower prices make up for lower wages - not quite, but we're catching up; Runway to the World - Edmonton is the most air-minded town in Canada; Don't Get Queasy, Just Take it Easy - Tips for Travel Sickness; He Lured Success - Red Edgar and the Lucky Strike Bait Company of Peterborough, Ontario - article with colour photo of Mr. Edgar; Molson's ad gives kudos to Mr. Leslie Butcher of Windsor Ontario - a member of Canada's 1936 Olympic basketball team; The Bugs Strike Back - insects are adapting to our DDT and germs are gangin up on the 'wonder' drugs; You and Nothing Else - story by Paul Barbour - illustrated by W. Book; Career Girl Without Clothes - Helen Gaskin models nude for artists - story with photos; Royal Canadian Navy Recruiting ad; Full-page ad for Hertz car rentals inside back cover; Front cover photo is incorporated into Johnson outboard motor ad on page 52. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
194180 pages. Features: Cover illustration of General Officer Commanding Canadian Corps - Lieutenant-General A.G.L. McNaughton; Great colour-photo ad for International Trucks inside front cover features fire-fighters for the air fighters of the R.C.A.F.; Rare one-page black and white photo ad for Moffats Limited shows their employees involved in WWII-related activities; One-page Westinghouse Radio ad features their Strategic War Map and the title "God bless you - Canada!"; Over There - McNaughton's boys are now in fine battle shape and spoiling for a fight - article with photos; Douglas Reed explains that Britain's armed forces are ready to begin jabbing the enemy; ; Good-by, Baby - ware-related fiction; Beverley Baxter describes his return from Spain to the blackouts of Britain; Photo-illustrated article on the work of Tank Crews; Article on Canadian Defense Minister the Hon. J.L. Ralston; Sneak Preview - fiction by Mildred Gilman and Seymour Winslow; Nice one-page black and white photo ad for Dodge Trucks features a snub-nosed lumber hauler; Travelling Oasis - Military fiction in Libya by Major Gerald Oscar Holmes; One-page black and white ad for Dodge cars, featuring the Special DeLuxe; One-page black and white RCA Victor ad features illustration of tanks and planes, below which is a small illustration of Winston Churchill; One-page black and white ad for the Chrysler Royal - with fluid drive; One-page letter from Frigidaire asking consumers to hold back their purchases and invest their money in War Savings Certificates (Bonds); Two-page black and white Ford Motor Company of Canada ad displays the military vehicles they are manufacturing for the war effort; One-page black and white Plymouth car ad; Nice one-page black and white Fargo Truck ad shows tractor trailor hauling steel I-beams; (Canadian) Soldier Artists Record War Effort - E.J. Hughes, O.N. Fisher and Chas. Scott; Canadian General Electric one-page black and white ad features their appliances in a Christmas gift /war savings certificate theme; This Man's Army - fantastic black and white photo feature shows Canada's troops in the many phases of their basic and advanced training; The Canadian Corps in Theoretical Assault - intriguing two-page black and white aerial illustration depicts Nazi forces holding Toronto, surrounded by Canadian forces; Awarding of Medals - article on how this is done; Nice one-page colour military-themed ad for Longines watches; Fantastic colour Firestone ad features the many products they are contributing to the war effort; One-page colour reproduction of E.J. Hughes' painting "The Sergeants' Mess"; One-page black and white General Motors of Canada patriotic ad with small photos of army vehicle production line; Nice one-page two-colour (green and black) Chevrolet ad; One-page two colour (black and yellow) Goodyear military-themed tire ad; Photo fo Canadian soldier billeted in British home; Nice hald-page black and white photo ad for Craven "A" cigarettes which 'will not affect your throat'; Nice red and black one-page ad for Heinz Old-Time Baked Beans features happy multi-generational supper scene; Meals en Masse - article on preparing food for an army, Canada's Army; Lovely colour-photo ad for Palmolive Soap inside back cover inludes Dr. Dafoe and the Dionne Quints; Nice bright colour back cover ad for Community Silverplate cutlery. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples pulling from covers but still attached. A very special issue due to it's substantial Canadian WWII content, highlighted by the artwork of E.J. Hughes. Magazine
1945Pages 539-610. Features: Cover art by Alex Schomburg supports the 7th War loan to 'finish the Nips'; Prescient Editorial entitled "Radio-Light' says "We are still at thevery beginning of the radio and electronic arts. The greatest and undreamt of applications lie as yet in the future. There is sttill much unknown territory in the electromagnetic spectrum which holds out great promist."; Air Radio Mechanic - a great career opportunity;; Television and the Amateur; No Selectivity in This Radio - the Panoramoscope; Motorola Handie-Talkie; "Photopulse"; FM U.H.F. Converter for Pre-War Radios; Cathode-Ray Photo Tests; Handie and Walkie Combat Portables; Tuning on the U.H.F.; Cathode Followers; Disc-Seal Tubes; Broadcast Equipment, Part IX; An Electronic "Omnichecker," Part I; Condensers; Re-activator Saves Tubes; Non-Priority Code Recorder; 32-Volt Receiver for Small Plants; Fixed -Bias Voltage Supply; Carry-Around Receiver; Cylinders for Better Sound. Nice one-page Echophone ad features illustration of scantily-clad young lady; One-page Radio Corporation of America (RCA) ad includes inset photo of Dr. V.K. Zworykin and E.W. Engstrom examining an Iconoscope or television "eye"; Photo-illustrated Meissner Manufacturing ad says "There' no let down in Mt. Carmel (Illinois); Interference-free Fluorescent Installation at World Broadcasting System studio in New York; Great photo-illustrated letter from George Coffee of Providence, R.I. shows his wife using a Talkie-Backie (car phone). Nice photo-illustrated ad on back cover for Galvin Manufacturing illustrates California's use of Motorola Radiotelephone F-M (FM) units and Motorola Radio automatic relay stations by the California Highway Patrol. Average wear. Writing atop front cover. World-Wide Station list has been clipped from page 570 and is not included. 1/4 of page 601 has been removed, otherwise a worthy vintage copy. Magazine
