February 2, 2010

NEW SPACE-AGE Computer Scale (Oct, 1968)

NEW SPACE-AGE Computer Scale SHOWS WEIGHT INSTANTLY IN NUMERALS 10 TIMES THE SIZE OF ORDINARY BATH SCALES!

Amazing new Computer tells you exactly what you weigh instantly, precisely. No waiting while the numbers bounce around to settle on your weight. No old-fashioned 5-lb. intervals. Read the rest of this entry »

Science Sets Pace for 1932 Olympic Games (Jun, 1931)

Filed under: Sports — @ 1:09 pm
Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jun, 1931
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Science Sets Pace for 1932 Olympic Games

Athletic sports are no longer merely a purely physical matter, for science and inventive ingenuity each year bring forth new equipment which enables the trained athlete to clip seconds or add inches to the world’s records in all events, until now it is a rare athletic meet when one or more records fail to fall.

by FREDERICK W. RUBIEN

Secretary of American Olympic Committee – As told to ALFRED ALBELLI

WILL sport records ever stop falling? When will human speed, endurance, prowess and ingenuity reach the saturation point in athletic events?
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He wants to get married (Sep, 1930)

He wants to get married

WHEN Smedley came East to take a big job as Sales Manager, he wanted to get married. Like his father and his grandfather he believed in early marriage; said it settled a man, kept him out of mischief, helped to make him successful in business. Besides, living alone in a New York apartment was a pretty forlorn kind of experience. Yes, it was time he was married. Read the rest of this entry »

TALKING MOVIES BROADCAST POLITICAL SPEECHES (Jan, 1929)

Filed under: Movies — @ 1:07 pm
Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jan, 1929
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TALKING MOVIES BROADCAST POLITICAL SPEECHES

BRITISH politicians have seized on the talking movie as a novel means of waging their campaigns in the general elections soon to come before the public. The photograph shows a London crowd listening to an open-air movie speech on a street-corner. These exhibitions, of course, are free to the public, and the novel method always succeeds in attracting an audience. Read the rest of this entry »

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