1940/08/17 -- ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Clyde H. Sunderland.

Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
SHORT STORIES:

  • "Leave it to Ames" by Walter D. Edmonds and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • "Thunder at Night" by Steve Fisher and illustrated by Ben Stahl
  • "Limbs is a Flourish Word" by Lucretia Penny and illustrated by Amos Sewell
  • "Every Night a Bank Night" by Joel Sayre and illustrated by E.F. Ward

    • ARTICLES:

  • "Adventures of a White Collar Man" by Alfred P. Sloan Jr in collaboraton with Boyden Sparkes
  • "The Tall, Straight Spars" by Capt. D'Arcy Grant
  • "Pittsburgh Phil" as told to Clem McCarthy by James C. McGill
  • "Dunkirk Diary" by Taffrail

    • SERIALS:

  • "Dust in the Afternoon" part 2 of 4 by Holmes Alexander and illustrated by O.F. Schmidt
  • "House of Cards" conclusion by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Arthur William Brown

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Next Week
  • Keeping Posted
  • Post Scripts
  • Editorials
  • "Fog" a poem by Edith Cherrington
  • "Two Trees" a poem by Helen Howland Prommel

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Camel Cigarettes ad featuring both Joe DiMaggio and Bucky Walters, American Airlines, Aluminum Company of America with James Montgomery Flagg illustration, and a Kix Cereal ad on the back cover.