Here's an interesting issue of Consolation (the predecessor of Awake! magazine) from 1941. It's the June 25, 1941 issue. Rutherford is still President of the WT Society. World War II is raging in Europe, but the US has not gotten involved. This issue contains an article containing Rutherford's dedication speech of a large building at Kingdom Farms near South Lansing, NY as a place "to take care of refugees." The article is on pp. 16-20 of the magazine. These buildings were later converted after Rutherford's death for use by the Watchtower Bible School of Gilead in 1943.
An earlier thread had discussed how the Gilead buildings were originally built as a shelter for the Bethel family:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/11/142115/1.ashx
The virulent anti-Catholicism of this period of JW history is also clearly shown in this issue. The first article is entiled "Jesuit Cunning." The word counts in this issue almost reveal a pre-occupation:
Jesuit: 69
Catholic: 65
God: 54
Jehovah: 43
Christ: 37
Jesus: 22
One of the most outlandish anti-Catholic statements occurs on page 21 where it says it "is very likely true" that Mein Kampf was actually written by a Catholic priest and that Hitler had the "Jesuitic" author of that book assassinated to prevent any disclosures.
A PDF of the entire magazine (2.53 MB) can be downloaded from this filesharing site:
http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=b1c64cb0d1be8fc1151d78a3bb8f2273
Once you are there, at the bottom of the page you will see a countdown. Once the countdown gets to zero you will see a download button and then you can save the file to your computer.