May 3, 2010

Enter this Workshop Contest! $150 IN CASH PRIZES (Dec, 1933)

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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Dec, 1933
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Enter this Workshop Contest! $150 IN CASH PRIZES

ALL aboard! There is still time for you to get your entry in on the novel contest announced in last month’s Modern Mechanix and Inventions! For the benefit of those who missed the first announcement we repeat: We are looking for the most practical and at the same time the most novel cigarette holder we can get so that plans can be run in the magazine. Read the rest of this entry »

Pardon us while we change our face (Aug, 1962)

Pardon us while we change our face

Some say that only women are privileged to change their minds, and their faces, whenever they choose. We disagree. And we have the courage of our convictions, because—from this day forward—Audiotape will be wearing a bright new face you’ve never seen before.
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$5,000 ELECTRIFIES DAIRY FARM IN VIRGINIA (Oct, 1936)

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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Oct, 1936
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$5,000 ELECTRIFIES DAIRY FARM IN VIRGINIA

by EMILY C. DAVIS

WHEN a farm goes electric in a big way revolutionary things happen. No pun intended. That is happening here, at Rose-dale Farm near Sterling, Va.

Ventilating fans waft breezes down the long milking barn. Dance music from a small radio floats out to keep the cows—and the farmers—contented while the cows are being milked, electrically, of course. Read the rest of this entry »

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