June 1, 2006

WHO’D BELIEVE I WAS SKINNY AND LONELY A FEW WEEKS AGO (Aug, 1935)

WHO’D BELIEVE I WAS SKINNY AND LONELY A FEW WEEKS AGO

Thousands Are Quickly Gaining 5 to 15 Lbs. This New Easy Way

DON’T think you’re “born” to be skinny and friendless. Thousands with this new, easy treatment have gained husky pounds, new good looks — in just a few weeks!
Doctors for years have prescribed yeast for health. But this new yeast tablet discovery gives double results — health, and solid, new flesh — and far quicker.
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Happy Days are Here Again (Apr, 1936)

Happy Days are Here Again

SPRINGTIME is get-together-time — out of doors! You enjoy old friends more — make new friends — and pack every outdoor hour with pleasure — when you own a 1936 Harley-Davidson. . . It’s some motorcycle! You’ll marvel at its wind-piercing lines and perfect balance — its airplane-like speed and snap — and above all, the amazing performance of its up-to-the-minute motor with new and exclusive features. Many sparkling color combinations— every one a beauty. Streamlined sidecar or chummy “Buddy Seat” for get-together rides—available on the 45′s, 74′s and the new 80 cubic inch Twin.
See your nearest Harley-Davidson dealer—PRONTO! Ask him
for a FREE RIDE—about his EASY PAY PLANS
— and send in the coupon.

Ride a Harley-Davidson

Novel Auto Windshield Predicted For 1945 (Apr, 1939)

Novel Auto Windshield Predicted For 1945
DEMONSTRATED at a recent convention of the Society of Automotive Engineers held in Detroit, Mich., the huge streamlined curved windshield shown at left was presented as a possible feature of the roadster of 1945. Made of a special flexible “glass,” the windshield is a type that is used principally on airplanes and speedboats at present.

GE 7-point research reactor program (Sep, 1955)

New G-E 7-point program helps you plan and obtain nuclear research reactor

To help industrial, educational, and research organizations plan and obtain nuclear research reactors quickly, General Electric offers a new seven-point program.

7-point research reactor program

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Depthscrapers Defy Earthquakes (Nov, 1931)

Depthscrapers Defy Earthquakes

THE “Land of the Rising Sun” (Japan) is subject to earthquakes of distressing violence at times; and the concentration into small areas of increasing city populations invites great destruction, such as that of the Tokio earthquake of 1923, unprecedented in magnitude of property loss, as well as life.

It was natural, then, that the best engineering brains of Japan should be devoted to the solution of the problem of building earthquake-proof structures; and a clue was given them by the interesting fact that tunnels and subterranean structures suffer less in seismic tremors than edifices on the surface of the ground, where the vibration is unchecked.
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