Revising the Map of America to Save a Nation
By William Dyce
DISASTER threatens the United States. Productive farm lands are becoming desolate deserts. Cleared lands, where once stood thick forests, are being ravaged by destructive floods. Uncle Sam is in danger of losing hundreds of thousands of acres that are now helping to feed his 125,000,000 citizens.
To avert the threatened calamity the government is in effect revising the geography of the country. Where waste land now exists, happy farmers are expected to till a productive soil. Where flat prairies sweep to horizons on all sides, great forests will arise. Where rivers never existed, water will flow. Shallow, sluggish streams will become principal arteries of commerce. And, in some cases, where civilization rules today, a wilderness will exist tomorrow.
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Whoops, I apparently cut off the article when I scanned it, but it was a cool looking vehicle so I thought I’d post it anyway.
Longest Auto Paints Road Lines
CONSIDERED the longest of motor vehicles actually in use on highways, a fleet of 288-inch wheelbase trucks were recently built for the State of Indiana. These elongated trucks are used to paint the white or yellow center lines on highways and to cover the shoulders of concrete roads with boiling asphalt. In building the machines …
Test Your Coordination
By Luis Hochman
IS YOUR party growing dull? Are your guests looking at their watches, yawning, and searching for the nearest exit? Then it is time to bring out some new fun in the form of a contest of skill with paper and pencil. The props are simple, just plain writing paper and a couple of pencils …. the stunts, well suppose you try them.
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What ever happened to the Manned Space Stations?
By Dr. Wernher von Braun
Director of NASA’s George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
DURING the years before Sputnik, several writers, including myself, predicted that one of the first objectives of manned space flight would be to establish one or more orbiting space stations.
Today we’re busy building rockets and spacecraft to take men to the moon. We have been fabulously successful with Project Mercury, and our Saturn I rockets have shown that they can reliably haul more than 10 tons of payload into orbit. Yet little is heard of manned space stations. Why is that so?
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Body Sway Drives Eccentric Bicycle 15 Miles Per Hour
CALLED the simplest self-propelled vehicle in the world, a radically new type of bicycle, entirely without pedals, is driven by body motion alone.
The rear wheel of this “x-ercycle,” as it is called, is eccentric; the rider stands on a springy footboard and swings his body in rhythm with the up and down movement of the frame to produce forward motion.
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These are actually kind of cool looking.
Photographic Cut-Outs Appear to Prop Up Book Ends
To make novel photographic book ends of the type illustrated, first take pictures of the subjects pushing against a wall or the side of a car and enlarge to 5″ by 7″. These enlargements are mounted on 1/4″ thick plywood with glue or dry mounting tissue.
The outlines are then cut on a jig saw with a rather fine blade.
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