PURSE CONCEALS CAMERA FOR SECRET SNAPSHOTS
Hidden within a bronze holder attached near the clasp of a woman’s purse, a tiny “candid camera” may be operated secretly to snap unposed photographs while the purse is held unobtrusively in the lap or against the body. For less furtive shots, the purse can be held at eye level and the camera trained on the subject through a small, collapsible view finder. Equipped with a high-speed lens, the instrument uses standard thirty-five-millimeter movie-camera film.

What exactly were they testing? Did they think the car would evaporate at high altitude?

Auto Strapped To Plane Is Tested One Mile Above Earth

A SPECTACULAR “first time in history” —an automobile actually taken for a mile high joy ride—recently astonished onlookers at Floyd Bennet Field, New York.

The plane was a giant Uppercu-Burnelli transport. With a 12-foot wide cabin, there was more than enough room between the wheels of the landing gear to strap on a standard 1935 automobile.
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You don’t see that every day.

Voyage of the Cullen Bros, elevator
IN Wimbledon, N. D., the Woodworth Elevator Co. needed a new elevator, but building costs were high. In Hamar, 65 miles north across wheatlands, the old Cullen Bros, elevator was for sale. It made the 65-mile trip on timbers and wheels. Dakota’s roads are straight, its bridges strong, but Great Northern Ry. engineers looked twice, took a firmer grip on their throttles.

I was very disappointed when I realized this article wasn’t about Crystal Meth.

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Party PEPPER-UPPERS
WITH the holidays just around the corner, you are probably on the lookout for some simple but lively games that will keep your party guests amused. These games should fill the bill, and the equipment required can be found in any home. Match up couples against couples, men against women, or one half of the party against the other. If you wish, award a prize to the most proficient couple or team, but the spirit of competition —and fun—is what counts.

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Girl Chemist

Jackie Bates works harder, has lonelier life than most of her ex-classmates, but makes more money, likes her profession

Chemistry, once strictly a man’s profession, has become increasingly hospitable to women. The expansion of industrial chemistry has helped. Women are particularly in demand for delicate laboratory work that requires small hands, finger dexterity and painstaking attention to detail. With job opportunities opening in the field, more college girls than ever before have been preparing for careers in chemistry.
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Meet Toonerville’s Inventor — FONTAINE FOX

THE world lost a great inventor when Fontaine Fox became a cartoonist.

It is true that not a single one of his inventions has ever run, except on paper, and the United States Patent Office would look askance at his contraptions if he tried to patent them, but they bring him fabulous royalties just the same. They also demonstrate that an inventive turn of mind is just as necessary to the successful cartoonist as to the scientific experimenter or basement workshop fan.
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Wow, they really don’t sugar coat it, do they? Also, doesn’t RecTone sound like a music label?

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NEW FEATS OF Chemical Wizards REMAKE THE WORLD WE LIVE IN

By ALDEN P. ARMAGNAC

IMAGINE a ball of fiber, weighing only one pound, of so fine a texture that if unrolled it would reach from the Atlantic to the Pacific! This marvel of chemistry, exhibited when American chemists recently assembled at Kansas City, Mo., to compare their achievements, is the latest kind of rayon, or artificial silk. A garment made from it can be hidden in the palm of the hand. To produce it, laboratory workers have gone the silkworm one better—for it measures one third thinner than natural silk. Improvements in methods of purifying the wood pulp that serves as its raw material, and in the chemical solutions and machinery used in its manufacture, have combined to make its production possible.
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