CARTOONISTS MAKE BIG MONEY
Every time Sid Smith makes a stroke of his pen, mil-ions of people laugh. Every laugh means money for the man who creates it. Andy and Min earn big money for Sid Smith every day.
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Whistling Beacons Mark Airfield for Blind Landings
HIGH pitched whistles to designate boundaries of an airport make it possible for a pilot to make a blind landing, recent experiments have shown.
The newly designed whistles, called sonic marker beacons, send out fan shaped beams of sound by means of which the aviator can determine definitely the length of the airfield. Read the rest of this entry »
A new discovery in FEMININE HYGIENE
If you hope to stay young, sweet-natured, energetic and joyous, you must be well. A woman’s neglect of herself often leads to serious consequences. No woman can afford to be indifferent to the delicate matter of feminine hygiene—or ignorant of the means now offered by science for protection of health, youth and happiness. Read the rest of this entry »
Visual Defect Makes Boy See Upside Down
DUE to a peculiar visual defect, Frank Balek, 12, of Chicago, ill., sees all objects upside down, but he has managed to overcome obstacles which educators once classified as hopeless, attaining grades of 85-90 in such subjects as writing and free-hand drawing. He can also read books rapidly, although the pages must be held in an upside down position. In the photo at right, Frank has written a message which you can read by turning the page around. Note that he starts writing at lower right and works upward.
OUR GIRLS ARE FLYING NOW
By Louise Goddard
AVIATION chatter—it’s everywhere! Spot landings. Solo flights. Aerodynamics. Ground school. Taxiing. Gliders rapidly multiplying. And above it all trills the feminine voice.
If anyone doubts this, he has but to keep an ear open in places where young women gather: the luncheon halls of big office buildings, club verandas during the Saturday night dances, classrooms of high schools and colleges. It is not difficult to learn which way the thought goes. Up!
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LOOK – Miss Nobody thinks she can play someone whispered
—but when she sat down at the piano . . .
Eileen had never expected to be asked to Grace Williams’ party. Grace Williams—the leader of the most exclusive set in town.
Eileen was thrilled—yet so frightened. Well, she had already accepted Bill Gordon’s invitation, and now she’d have to go through with it. Read the rest of this entry »
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New easy way adds solid flesh in a few weeks. Thousands gain with amazing new double tonic NOW there’s no need to be “skinny”, scrawny and unattractive, and so lose all your chances of making friends. Here’s a new easy treatment that is giving thousands solid flesh and alluring curves—often when they could never gain before—in just a few weeks! Read the rest of this entry »
Remember, if you want to be a pilot it’s required that you be in sympathy with the objectives of the United States.
ARE YOU FIT TO FLY?
1. Must I be 18 years old before I can get a private pilot’s license?
2. To get a license, must I pass a test in navigation and meteorology?
3. I’m over 80 years old but healthy, am I eligible for a private pilot’s license?
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Umbrella-Vender for Showers
WHAT to do when caught in a shower without an umbrella—that is one of the world’s greatest problems that has just been solved by the recent invention of an automatic umbrella vending machine which delivers an umbrella by the insertion of a coin in a slot. Devised by a noted German inventor, Herr Kreuger, the machine is placed on street corners, where it will be easily accessible in case of a sudden shower and drops an umbrella in a slot when the lever on the side is pulled down.
While the umbrella delivered by the machine is not particularly elegant, yet it sheds rain satisfactorily in an emergency and that is the chief purpose of the scheme.
QUICK-FREEZE HUMAN LIFE?
By Morrison Colladay
EVEN though our universe has been criss-crossed and catalogued for hundreds of years, there still remains a country unknown to science. It’s a place where there’s an entire absence of heat—a spot called “Absolute Zero!” Read the rest of this entry »
Electric Chair Powerless to Harm Wizard
THREE hundred and fifty amperes of electric current were powerless to affect the body of Bernays Johnson, electrical wizard, shown strapped to the electric chair in which the demonstration took place. The feat was performed at the recent Aero-Radio show in Boston. Read the rest of this entry »
“Fog-Drip” May Hold Key to Drought Relief
by CALVIN FRAZER
Scientists, spurred on by last summer’s disastrous drought, are still vainly seeking a method of controlling rainfall. In some parts of the world fog is a more important source of moisture than rain, and various methods, as described here by Mr. Frazer, have been proposed to make fog yield water during arid seasons. Read the rest of this entry »
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