May 26, 2007

Kelp-O-Malt: Skinny Girls (Nov, 1934)

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Source: Physical Culture ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Nov, 1934
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This problem of people being too skinny and wanting to add “flesh” seems to be one we’ve thoroughly licked. Though Coca Cola and McDonalds have been far more effective than Kelp-A-Malt or Fleischmann’s Yeast ever could have dreamed.

Girls with “Naturally Skinny” Figures …AMAZED AT THIS ENTIRELY NEW WAY TO ADD 5 LBS. OF SOLID FLESH IN 1 WEEK…OR NO COST!

New Natural Mineral Concentrate From the Sea, Rich in FOOD IODINE, Building Up Weak, Rundown Men and Women Everywhere.

THOUSANDS of thin, pale, rundown folks—and even “Naturally Skinny” men and women—are amazed at this new, easy way to put on healthy needed pounds quickly. Gains of 15 to 20 lbs. in one month—5 lbs. in one week—are reported regularly.

Kelp-a-Malt, the new mineral concentrate from the sea—gets right down to the cause of thin, underweight conditions and adds weight through a “3 ways in one” natural process. Read the rest of this entry »

Ever Had Your Colon “House Cleaned?” (Nov, 1934)

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Source: Physical Culture ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Nov, 1934
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Once, by my Roomba, but we both promised never to speak of it again.

Ever Had Your Colon “House Cleaned?”

Large Per Cent, of All Ills and Ailments Have Their Source in the Neglected “Cellar” of the Human Body

IT’S only natural to neglect the cellar of the house, the part you don’t see. Yet, as a matter of fact it’s more important to keep the cellar clean and airy than any other part of the house.

The colon, or large intestine, may be called the cellar of the human body. It’s there the rubbish or waste matter from digested food collects for passage out of the body—only the body waste is no mere rubbish, but highly toxic or poisonous waste.
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TAIL LIGHT SHINES ACROSS CAR (Dec, 1932)

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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Dec, 1932
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These have finally become popular now, but they use LED’s instead.

TAIL LIGHT SHINES ACROSS CAR

An automobile tail light, resembling a neon tube, has been developed by an Indianapolis, Ind., inventor. The streak of red light, running across the car is easily seen from any position in the rear and it also outlines the width of the vehicle. This is especially desirable in the case of unusually wide buses. The light is tubular in shape and from fifty-four to ninety inches in length. Two standard tail light bulbs, which are placed inside the tube, supply the illumination.

The machine we call “Mr. Meticulous” (Sep, 1955)

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Source: Popular Mechanics ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Sep, 1955
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This certainly seems like a pain in the ass way to make a transistor.

The machine we call “Mr. Meticulous”

Bell Laboratories scientists, who invented the junction transistor, have now created an automatic device which performs the intricate operations required for the laboratory production of experimental model transistors.

It takes a bar of germanium little thicker than a hair and tests its electrical characteristics. Then, in steps of 1/20,000 of an inch, it automatically moves a fine wire along the bar in search of an invisible layer of positive germanium to which the wire must be connected. This layer may be as thin as 1/10,000 of an inch!
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Sky-Riding Bus (Nov, 1950)

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Source: Popular Mechanics ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Nov, 1950
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Sky-Riding Bus

TWIN BUSSES that glide high through the air will carry sightseers and skiers up the slopes of Mount Hood in Oregon during this year’s winter sports season. The 36-passenger busses literally wind themselves along their cables, completing a trip of more than three miles in less than 10 minutes. Said to be the longest aerial passenger lift in the world, the tramway whisks skiers from the 3800-foot level to Timberline Lodge at 6000 feet. The cables are supported by 38 A-shaped steel towers up to 72 feet tall. The traction cables wind around power pulleys on the car which are rotated by two 185-horsepower engines
to carry the coaches up the mountain.

What every family wants to know about Television (Jan, 1949)

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Source: Science Illustrated ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jan, 1949
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Interesting and fairly comprehensive article about the state of television in 1948. A time when there were less than 60 stations covering about a million viewers.

What every family wants to know about Television

by Miles Ginsberg

The frontier days are back in one. sector of the American economy. The television industry, only a shadowy outline a year ago, is galloping toward giantism with much of the driving, mercurial spirit of an earlier time in this country. All a television executive needs to be completely in character is a six-shooter and a pair of spurs.

In the wild and wooly television industry, every company releasing information has an axe to grind and a hatchet to throw at the next company’s facts. Nevertheless, by balancing claim against claim, a reporter can compile an amazingly optimistic set of fairly solid facts about television. For example:
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