CITY WITHIN A CITY
Equal in size to ten 10-story buildings, New York’s Interstate Commerce Center will have an Indoor highway.
THEY gasped when Tom Mix rode his horse right through the swinging doors and into .a western saloon. They laughed when Olsen and Johnson drove a midget car into the elevator of a modern building and then through the halls to a lawyer’s office. (In Hollywood, anything can happen.) Read the rest of this entry »
MI-stoppers
SHARP TIMEKEEPER is this knife-blade-thin watch exhibited recently at an International Timepiece Show in gay Paris. The manufacturer claims that watch is thin enough to cut meat.
STILTED WORKER, left, is no drawback to the Hugh R. Dodge Company in Detroit which puts insulation on ceilings. Stilts eliminate scaffolds. save time. Crew of 12 uses them proficiently.
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I think that woman has been smoking something else out of a tube…
ANOTHER WESTINGHOUSE FIRST
INDOOR SUNSHINE While you work or play from a FLUORESCENT SUN LAMP
Here’s a totally new kind of sun lamp . . . different from any ever made!
Now—enjoy wide-area radiation. Whole rooms, such as in homes, offices, schools, factories, amusement and recreation areas, can be bathed with cool ultraviolet rays that stimulate health-building Vitamin D. Here, low intensities are used for longer periods.
Now—enjoy quick individual sun tanning.
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Made in Germany
Right under the noses of their unsuspecting Nazi guards, GI-PW’s turned out these ingenious devices.
By Louis Hochman
THE American Gl is an ingenious fellow. Given the right tools, he can produce anything he sets his skill to. Take away his tools and leave him with only a penknife, old razor blades, and some broken glass and he’ll still produce anything he sets his heart on. Read the rest of this entry »
O.K. Murphy’s Electrical Massagers
OWEN K. Murphy of Adamsville, Pa., is a relaxed fellow with an invigorating mind. His mechanical massage units have resulted in making people, from housewives to businessmen, massage-conscious. His Niagara Manufacturing Company puts out 14 different electrical units which are designed to relax and tone up tired muscles. They can be used anywhere from weary feet to throbbing heads. Prince Sulaiman of Saudi Arabia bought five Niagara chairs for his wives.
“Doodlebug” is the name Sgt. C. O. Peterson gave this runabout built of salvaged airplane parts. Single cylinder engine does 200 miles to the gallon at speeds up to 42 mph. The tank holds two quarts of gas and the machine weighs 300 lbs.
McCahill Drives The Austin Healey
Uncle Tom test-drives the most talked-about sports car of the year and finds very few faults to criticize, many virtues to praise.
NOT since the day Neville Chamberlin showed up at 10 Downing Street with his umbrella incorrectly rolled, has a more sensational shocker taken place than that caused by the birth of the new Austin Healey 100. The windscreen and bonnet boys of England’s motordom were outrageously amazed at the reception accorded this upstart at Mr. Herbert Shriner’s Second Annual International Motor Sports Show in New York. At this prime American exhibit, the sales people of some of Britain’s oldest and most traditional concerns never put a mark on an order blank whilst Mr. Donald Healey’s creation was causing a near-riot. In two words, Donald Healey and associates “had It” whilst their fellow Britons “Had it.” Read the rest of this entry »
Beauty Takes a Beating
WHAT women will do to make themselves more beautiful is strikingly illustrated by the pictures on this page. The devices which today’s beauty experts have cooked up to improve on nature look like weird contraptions out of an Edgar Allan Poe horror tale. Read the rest of this entry »
The Cows Like It, Too
BRITAIN, expecting every girl to do her duty, is training an army of city girls to make themselves useful on the farm. Before being turned loose on defenseless cows, the girls must first practice on dummies.
Here’s How to Ski
Skiing is a healthy, outdoor sport which can add to your life’s pleasures—-and it’s easy.
BY BILL FALVEY
SO YOU want to ski? Well, go to it. It’s a lusty, fine exercise and just what the doctor ordered but it, too, has its pitfalls. Better take a few words of advice from one who knows.
Don’t go in for skiing foolhardily. Don’t swell your chest and tell yourself that, because you are pretty fair at tennis or golf, you’ll find skiing a cinch right off. In other words, don’t rush in. If you do, you’ll find yourself piled up with doctor bills, perhaps, or laid up with sore spots for days. Read the rest of this entry »
Phone Booth Needs No Door
A DE LUXE telephone booth, utilizing a sound absorbent material instead of glass or wood panels, is the latest development of the Burgess Battery Company, of Chicago, Ill. Open around the base, and because of the remarkable absorption qualities of the lining, no door is required. This feature of the design facilitates natural ventilation and easy cleaning, yet greater privacy is achieved than in the ordinary closed booth.
THE OVSHINSKY INVENTION
By Norman Carlisle
Is it greater than the transistor, or is this self-taught engineer a fraud as the big companies claim?
Everyone knew that glass was an insulator, not a conductor of electricity. Everybody, that is, except a controversial independent inventor named Stanford Ovshinsky. To the consternation of orthodox scientists he’s found a way to turn glass into a conductor—a discovery that may rival that of the transistor effect.
At least that’s what Ovshinksy and a number of fellow scientists and engineers claim, thereby starting a red-hot hassle among scientists.
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