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| DATE | DESCRIPTION | LOW | HIGH | AVERAGE | |
| 1/1/40 | Queen Elizabeth | $4.00 | $7.00 | $6.25 | |
| 1/8/40 | Bowdoin House Party | $1.00 | $4.00 | $2.50 | |
| 1/15/40 | USC's Basketball Star Ralph Vaughn | $3.00 | $4.00 | $3.50 | |
| 1/22/40 | Dutch East Indians | $4.00 | $4.00 | $4.00 | |
| 1/29/40 | Lana Turner; Art Show in Richmond, Va.; War's First Christmas - Uniformed Man in London's Night Spots; Earthquake in Turkey; G-Men Arrest 17 Men Plotting Revolution; The Kremlin; Close-Up: Paul McNutt; Photographic Essay: War in Winter - Russo-Finnish War; Theater: Thurber - The Male Animal - with cartoons; Starlets: Lana Turner, Linda Darnell, and others; in morning, noon, and night dress; Evils of Liquor in Brooklyn | $4.00 | $8.00 | $6.00 | |
| 2/5/40 | Swedish Aviators | $1.00 | $4.00 | $2.83 | |
| 2/12/40 | Valentine's Day | $3.00 | $5.00 | $4.00 | |
| 2/19/40 | Romania's King Carol and Son Mihai | $3.00 | $6.00 | $4.33 | |
| 2/26/40 | Carhop | $1.00 | $8.00 | $3.85 | |
| 3/4/40 | Springtime Hats; Miami & Miami Beach: biggest U.S. Winter Resort Has Biggest Boom; Picasso: Spanish Painter's Big Show Tours the Nation; Harold Lloyd's Hobbyhorse Craze is Fun but Upsetting; Sailor Hats Return with Deeper Crowns, Wider Brims | $4.00 | $5.00 | $4.33 | |
| 3/11/40 | French Soldier | $3.50 | $4.00 | $3.75 | |
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| 3/18/40 | Chorus Girl; National Ski Patrol | $4.00 | $9.50 | $6.75 | |
| 3/25/40 | Sir Neville Henderson | $4.00 | $4.00 | $4.00 | |
| 4/1/40 | NY Giants Baseballl Rookie John Rucker | $3.00 | $4.00 | $3.67 | |
| 4/8/40 | Anna Neagle | $4.00 | $7.00 | $5.50 | |
| 4/15/40 | Government and Youth; Race Horse Seabiscuit becomes the Father of Five, Three Colts and two Fillies Born To Mares On Ridgewood ranch; Cary Grant in the Movie My Favorite Wife; New Mexico - America's Southwest Celebrates its Antiquity; War in Europe | $2.00 | $11.50 | $4.88 | |
| 4/22/40 | Dude Outfit | $2.00 | $4.25 | $3.42 | |
| 4/29/40 | Winston Churchill | $2.00 | $12.00 | $6.00 | |
| 5/6/40 | British Aerial Gunner | $2.00 | $9.00 | $4.75 | |
| 5/13/40 | Silk Shawls in Fashion | $2.00 | $4.00 | $3.00 | |
| 5/20/40 | French General Maxime Weygand; Total War Starts (14 pp.),Allied and Nazi Forces, Parachute Troops,First Radio Photos of German Blitzkrieg, Billy Bishop, Canada's Great War Ace; Close-up: France's Weygand; Photo Essay: Syria: A Big French Army Guards Near East's Ancient Crossroads; Movies: Lillian Russell; Theater: Romeo & Juliet with Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier | $1.00 | $11.00 | $5.25 | |
| 5/27/40 | German Soldier; A New Conqueror Strikes Terror in the Hearts of Complacent Democracies, The German Blitzkrieg; Hitler's Great new Weapon; Allies Got First Taste of Deadly Nazi Bombing at Namos and Andalsnes; Dive Bomber: Germany's Most Destructive Weapon Plummets on Targets; A Dog of War Stands Guard Beside His Master's Gun in U.S. Army Maneuvers; Good Manners for Cadies Are Outlined by P.G.A.'s New Charts of Etiquette; 50,000 Airplanes: U.S. to Multiply Fleets & Factories....Ten page article featuring photos of the drafting room, production room, an unassembled "Wasp" engine, an engineer testing radio eguipment, The 450-m.p.h. Grumman fighter plane, The Curtiss P-36, The Boing B-17, The Curtiss P-40, The Douglas B-23 and The Consolidated B-24 | $2.00 | $24.00 | $9.50 | |
| 6/3/40 | Statue of Liberty | $4.00 | $7.00 | $5.50 | |
| 6/10/40 | Japan Emperor Hirohito; Battle of Flanders | $2.00 | $15.50 | $7.30 | |
| 6/17/40 | General Motors' William Knudson | $2.00 | $4.00 | $3.00 | |
| 6/24/40 | Italy's Marshal Rodolfo Graziani | $2.00 | $5.00 | $3.67 | |
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| 7/1/40 | Red Cross Girl | $4.00 | $7.50 | $5.50 | |
| 7/8/40 | Admiral Harold Stark | $1.00 | $5.50 | $3.63 | |
| 7/15/40 | Rita Hayworth | $4.00 | $20.00 | $12.00 | |
| 7/22/40 | Tank Commander | $4.00 | $15.00 | $8.17 | |
| 7/29/40 | Girl Lifeguard | $4.00 | $5.50 | $4.75 | |
| 8/5/40 | US Vacations | $1.00 | $5.50 | $3.50 | |
| 8/12/40 | Republican Vice President Nominee Charles McNary | $4.00 | $8.50 | $5.83 | |
| 8/19/40 | Parachute Trainee | $4.00 | $4.00 | $4.00 | |
| 8/26/40 | Couple at Jasper National Park; Battle of Britain | $1.00 | $6.00 | $3.67 | |
| 9/2/40 | Dionne Quintuplets | $4.00 | $13.50 | $7.42 | |
| 9/9/40 | Singer Carol Bruce | $1.00 | $5.50 | $3.63 | |
| 9/16/40 | Flight Across America; First Picture of the Battle Oran Reach U.S.; Dempsey Family; Photographic Essay: Flight Across America - Aerial Views of America; Close-Up: Paris Under the Swastika; Medicine: Heart Diseases; Theater: the Borsch Circuit; Eels Start Autumnal Trek to the Sargasso Sea; Movies: Carmen D'Antonio Is Hollywood's New Night-Club Dance Sensation; Sports: Pat Laursen National Skeet Shooting Champion; Movie Ad Deanna Durbin; Kate Smith | $4.00 | $10.00 | $6.00 | |
| 9/23/40 | Air Raid Victim | $2.50 | $4.00 | $3.25 | |
| 9/30/40 | Wendell Willkie | $1.00 | $5.50 | $3.38 | |
| 10/7/40 | Gary Cooper | $4.00 | $7.50 | $5.58 | |
| 10/14/40 | Jinx Falkenburg | $4.00 | $4.50 | $4.25 | |
| 10/21/40 | Sweaters in Fashion; U.S. Industry Hustles to Meet Nation's Need for Speed; Adolf Hitler Does a Victory Jig; Automobile Designers Sketch Fashions to Match Cars; Children's Lifeboat Lasts Out Eight Days of Disaster; Strange Sights of War in Bomb-stricken London; Texas Ranch: The Old West Lives on at Matador; Audubon's Animal Paintings; 2 page ad of R.C.A. radio models for 1941; Full page ad of Coke in 6 pack carrier | $4.00 | $6.50 | $5.25 | |
| 10/28/40 | US Sailor | $4.00 | $4.00 | $4.00 | |
| 11/4/40 | San Diego Campaign Rally | $1.00 | $4.00 | $2.50 | |
| 11/11/40 | Michigan's Tom Harmon | $4.00 | $12.00 | $7.50 | |
| 11/18/40 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | $2.00 | $5.00 | $3.67 | |
| 11/25/40 | Fur Coats in Fashion | $1.00 | $4.00 | $2.50 | |
| 12/2/40 | Balloonists | $4.00 | $5.00 | $4.50 | |
| 12/9/40 | Ginger Rogers | $4.00 | $4.00 | $4.00 | |
| 12/16/40 | Greek Soldier | $4.00 | $5.00 | $4.50 | |
| 12/23/40 | Couple Dressed for a Party | $4.00 | $4.00 | $4.00 | |
| 12/30/40 | Britain's Desert Fighters | $4.00 | $5.50 | $4.75 | |
