WHISKER SAVER is called ash guard and it protects user against brush fires.
The basic message of the letter to all the readers of the magazine is: buy a Chemcraft outfit or your big brother will be killed by Japs and Nazis. Also, it will help you find a job after the war.
CHEMCRAFT
Dear Jack,
It was swell to get your V-mail letter. Hope it won’t be long before I am back home with you. I’m glad to hear that you are interested in my Chemcraft Outfit. Now I realize how important chemistry is and what a vital part it plays in our war effort. And after the war chemistry will be more important than ever. So the more you and I can learn about chemistry the better our future chances of success. Our Chemcraft Outfit will help you get a good start. So stick to it. All my love to you, Mom and Dad.Your loving brother,
Dick
Skates for Rough Surfaces Are Built Like Army Tank
Constructed with several sets of wheels along the lines of an army tank, skates introduced recently in Japan may be used on unusually rough surfaces. The multiple wheel skate tends to level out the rough spots. Braces attached to the leg help to hold the skates on the feet.
The HOUSE that has EVERYTHING
$250,000 California sample shows what science can do for homes.
A $250,000 HOUSE with every available postwar convenience, and some not yet lor sale, has been built by a Los Angeles contractor to show how much scientific luxury a home can otter. Fritz B. Burns, who with Henry J. Kaiser plans to produce 10,000 moderately priced prefabricated houses for crowded Californians by next June, knows that his palace of improvements is way out of the average house hunter’s reach. But purchasers will demand some of these conveniences in low-cost homes, he believes, and Burns and Kaiser intend to provide them.
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Eleven-year-old Boy is Lion Tamer
AN ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD Texas boy is making good at a job so dangerous that only the hardiest men attempt it. He is a lion tamer, probably the youngest in the world. Armed with a cracking whip, a light chair, and blank cartridge pistol, he strides fearlessly into a cage crowded with ten young lions and, at a sharp command, makes them roll barrels across the floor, frolic on a see-saw and roar lustily in mock rage.
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This man is a hero for stopping the evil menace of turtles…
Turtle Trapper Snares Underwater Killers
MAINTAINING the position he has earned as public enemy No. 1 to the snapping turtles of Long Island is the task that keeps Arthur L. Lucas, of Center Moriches, N.Y., busy. For five years, Lucas has waged war on these underwater killers, which he feels are probably the greatest menace to the game fish and wild life of the region. Read the rest of this entry »
By 1931 the hippies already had a strong foothold in California. Now all they had to do was wait…
Health Bread Made From Seaweed
BREAD made of kelp, or seaweed, was placed on sale recently in Ojai, California, a little town near the Pacific coast. Though wheat was on sale at as low a price as 25 cents per bushel, William Baker, who introduced the new bread, claims that his innovation is rapidly becoming popular because of its peculiar flavor.
Police Dog Rides Aquaplane Behind Speeding Power Boat
ONE of the sensations of a recent water circus held at Atlantic City, N. J., was the performance of Rex, Belgian police dog, who gave a demonstration of plain and fancy aquaplaning behind a speeding-power boat.
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It looks like that kid is trying to rip the donkey’s tail off.
All in the Day’s Work
Ever get tired of the monotony of your job—weary of doing the same old tasks in the same old way? So do other folks, and as shown in the photos on this page, some of them adopt unusual methods of injecting a bit of fun into the job of tiring. Whether it9s a basket – balancing contest or a peanut – pushing race, a bit of sport helps to take the edge off the daily grind.
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It’s a pity that prime number based encryption schemes were about 30 years away at this point. This thing could have been useful.
Electric Eye Solves Baffling Mathematical Problems
THROUGH the use of a photo-electric cell harnessed to complicated series of steel gears of different radii, Dr. Norman Lehmer, professor of Mathematics at the University of Southern California, has succeeded in solving certain problems that have baffled mathematicians for centuries.
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This seems like a bit of overkill to me…
Gunboats To Fight Shark Menace
THE gunboats and seaplanes of three nations, England, Holland and Portugal, will soon combine in an attempt to drive dangerous tiger-sharks from their breeding grounds near the Island of Timor. The main weapons used will be torpedos dropped from circling planes and depth bombs released from the gunboats.
It’s good to know there is more than one way to conquer a grapefruit.
Grapefruit Eaters Use Squirt Guard
At last someone has come to the rescue of grapefruit lovers by building a handy squirt guard. Invented in England, the hemisphere of celluloid clamps over a half grapefruit as a protection against stray juices.
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