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This is a pretty cool way to make a stool.

Graceful Stool…BUILT FROM COAT HANGERS
By Eric Munsinger

A UNIQUE, light, and handy stool can be made from ordinary wooden coat hangers. As its weight is only a little more than a pound, it makes an ideal playroom or nursery stool for a child.

The only materials needed are: Twenty coat hangers, some plastic wood putty, a 2-ft. length of brass rod 3/16 in. in diameter with nuts and washers, and two contrasting colors of enamel or lacquer (such as light oak and dark mahogany).
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Selling Happiness by the Pound

Modern Carnivals Carry Mechanical, Joy-Making Devices to Hundreds of Towns Every Week in Steel Trains

JOY is sold by the pound throughout the summer and fall by carnivals and traveling amusement expositions in every village, town and city, the length and breadth of the United States and Canada. Happiness is dispensed by them with a consistency akin to that shown by any great business enterprise. Scores of mechanical entertaining devices, thrill- giving rides, glittering midways of “wonders, curiosities and strange people from the four corners of the earth,” and miles of bunting are by no means a matter of chance even if they do appear as though summoned by a magician’s wand. All of these things are the result of organized effort and are available at fixed prices which vary literally according to the weight of the shipment required by any community. A few years ago forty-one carnivals were touring the country. Read the rest of this entry »

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New Conveniences for the Household

VEGETABLE CUTTER
Potatoes and other vegetables are cut to various sizes and shapes by this accessory, as a lever forces them against interchangeable cutting blades set in either end

VACUUM JUG HAS FAUCET
Air pressure created by squeezing a rubber bulb on the vacuum jug below forces liquid from a spout
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How the New Cars Are Designed

An artist sketches an exotic, streamline-design on a giant blackboard. Sculptors model it full size in clay. Artisans carve it out of solid chunks of wood. Metalworkers fashion it in sheets of steel. Finally, a car of new and daring design is created, only to be driven virtually to destruction in brutal tests that will decide whether it shall be scrapped, or become the newest product of a mass-production line. In the accompanying photographs, taken in the “art department” of the Chrysler Corporation, in Detroit, Mich., you see a few tentative models of the company’s future cars. There, as in similar departments of other manufacturers, the endless process of improving the appearance and performance of cars goes on behind locked doors, to make your car of two or five years hence a reality.

That’s a lot of camels!

CAMEL TRAINS OF ARMY SPAN HISTORIC PASS
Modern military operations in the rugged mountain fastnesses of Afghanistan are battles against the forces of nature as well as clashes between men. In recent uprisings there, supplies for the British troops were convened to the historic Khyber Pass on long camel trains across pontoon bridges. At one point over a steep cliff, the way is only fifteen feet wide and is cut into the side of a limestone ledge. Through this gateway to the plains of India in the last 2,000 vears, have echoed the footsteps of the hosts of Alexander and of Persian, Greek and Mongolian conquerors who have gone down to defeat in the lofty mountain summits of the region.

I would love to live in a house with a giant handle on top. It would make life so much easier for God when the rapture comes!

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Will We Live in Vacuum Bottles?

by John L. Raymond

What is a vacuum bottle house? It sounds fantastic, but science is developing a new type of house with vacuum walls, adapting the principles of the familiar thermos bottle, which will be so perfectly insulated that one ton of coal will do the work of nine. Some day you may live in one!

IN HIS fascinating book, “The Time Machine,” H. G. Wells looks forward to the day when man, in an awkward attempt to survive a dying sun and a frigid and dreary earth, will take to the ground to live like ants—an idea which does not flatter the ingenuity of scientists who have been working to develop the perfect house, in which comfort is assured regardless of outside temperatures.
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