Plastic Furs
MAKING mink and other precious furs
from sheepskin is the latest miracle to come out of the chemist’s laboratory. Fabulous furs, hitherto within the reach of only the wealthiest women, will come clown in price to the point (about $160) at which almost every woman can satisfy her yearning for a luxurious coat.
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Hot-Rod Derby on the Salt Flats
By Ewart Thomas
ON THE Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah late this month you’ll be able to see the oddest collection of fast automobiles ever assembled.
Some will be “competition coupes” with cabs which appear to be squashed flat, one or two may be “twin tank” jobs that resemble a wartime P-38 with the driver in one compartment and the engine in the other. Some will be flat streamliners not much more than knee high.
Each represents its builder’s ideas on how to design the world’s fastest car, in its class, with the funds available.
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Analyzing Air Car Designs
How well do the air cars perform?
Here is the full story - - what makes them go, the problems they face and what their future looks like
By WAYNE WILLE
CALL them air cars. Call them ground effect vehicles. Or call them air cushion sleds.
But, above all, call them experimental. All the models currently under development pose some difficult problems for the designers and engineers working on them. Such problems as:
• How can we make them fly high enough to clear rocks, fences, high waves and other obstacles?
• What is the best way to steer them?
• Will they perform adequately at high speed, if at all?
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This looks pretty useful.
LIGHT KNEE REST HOLDS BOOK OR MAGAZINE
Reading is made painless for the most comfort-loving of mortals by a new book rest that clamps lightly over the reader’s knee. It not only supports the book’s weight but holds it open and keeps the place. Extension arms unfold to hold a magazine or a sheet of music. The user, sitting in an easy-chair, has both hands free to make notes, smoke, or eat.
It’s Grand Theft Auto ‘53!
Students Drive Model Car Over Miniature Test Route
Better drivers result from a training machine that tells you exactly what is wrong with your driving. The machine consists of regulation steering wheel, brake and clutch pedals, accelerator and instrument panel. The roadway, white lines painted on a green canvas, moves beneath the car at speeds regulated by the accelerator. The model responds as a standard car would. Various signals are included so the driver can test his reaction time and judgment of speed and distance. The machine shows each time a driver unnecessarily touches the clutch, brake or shifts gears.
I think that “$147 (less Radiotrons)” means they don’t even include the vacuum tubes, you have to pay extra for those. That’s sort of like selling an mp3 player with no memory in it. Doesn’t do you a lot of good.
RCA RADIOLA 60 Super-Heterodyne
Radio receiver and speaker as separate units permit a flexibility in arrangement not possible with the larger cabinet combinations.
The “60″ Super-Heterodyne may be put on a library shelf or a small side table, and be connected with the speaker placed anywhere in the room—or in another room.
The best reproducer to use with the “60″ is the new “106″Electro-Dynam-ic. This is the same type as that used in the de luxe cabinet models of the new Super-Heterodynes.
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FIRST Transatlantic Air Line LINKS TWO CONTINENTS
By Rene Leonhardt
SLIDING down the map 1,800 miles from the bulging west coast of upper Africa to the projecting northeastern tip of South America, a few weeks hence, a flying boat will inaugurate the world’s first regularly-scheduled transatlantic airline.
This aerial bridge across the South Atlantic will link Bathurst, just west of the Sahara, in British Gambia, with Pernambuco, south of the Amazon, in Brazil. It will clip nine days from the traveling time between Berlin, Germany, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
At first, the big machines, on a biweekly schedule, will carry only mail and express. Later, passengers will be accommodated as well. Following the trail blazed by daring ocean flyers, the pilots will take off surrounded by elaborate precautions and aided by the last word in navigation instruments. For behind the project lies more than three years of intensive preparation by the Lufthansa, the great air transportation organization of Germany.
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