June 23, 2010

Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch! (Mar, 1975)

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Issue: Mar, 1975
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Uh… um. Yeah. I’m sure this seemed like a good idea to someone.

Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch!

Tareyton is better/Charcoal is why
Tareytons activated charcoal delivers a better taste. A taste no plain white filter can match.

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TAKES THE “CLACK” Out off False Teeth (Feb, 1946)

Unfortunately it also impairs depth perception leading to all sorts of fork related injuries.

TAKES THE “CLACK” Out off False Teeth

Crown dental plate fastener Here’s new amazing mouth comfort!Enjoy that feeling of security … of having your own teeth again. Satisfy your desire for all foods. Stop suffering the embarrassment and discomfort caused by “clacking” dental plates! Read the rest of this entry »

If an American Had Invented the Thermometer (Apr, 1936)

If an American Had Invented the Thermometer

FAHRENHEIT, the scientist who invented the scale of temperatures we use, took the greatest cold he could find as zero. But if an American had made the thermometer with the lowest reading in the United States as zero, it would be 66 degrees below Fahrenheit’s (66° below zero in Yellowstone Park) ; 98° would be freezing, instead of blood heat, and a hot summer’s day in Death Valley might go to 200°!

Toboggans on Pine Needles (Sep, 1931)

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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Sep, 1931
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Toboggans on Pine Needles

THOSE who have wandered in the woods know how difficult it is to walk up a slope covered with pine-needles. Some have even slid down such slopes, when young, on a barrel stave, which was lots of fun. Just such an idea is embodied in this “Pine Needle” toboggan slide. It makes use of a smooth bottomed sled, an artificial slide covered with pine-needles and a good slope of land.
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June 22, 2010

man, Like UTICA’s Way Out IN FRONT (Aug, 1962)

man, Like UTICA’s Way Out IN FRONT

No other rig manufactured today swings quite like Utica’s. These cats are the ones who first swung with the MC-27 Town & Country, and now it’s the T&C II. Utica Gismotchy Horizontal-Vertical Beam Antenna—Utica Buddy Whip Mobile Antenna—Utica Buddy Ground Plane Antenna When you are looking for the best, “Man, this is the place.” Read the rest of this entry »

CORRECT WALK GIVES POISE (Feb, 1937)


CORRECT WALK GIVES POISE

TO BUSINESS GIRLS By Helen Macfadden

There Is Style and Charm as Well as Efficiency in the Bodily Carriage of One Who Walks Correctly

THE new girl reached her desk without causing particular notice until the office boy and the boss began casting admiring glances at her. Then it wasn’t long before about every girl in the room had measured the amazing length of those golden eyelashes and wondered how much a haircut like that cost. Read the rest of this entry »

FLORIDA CAMPSITES (Jan, 1965)

Yes, bears do make the best fishing.

FLORIDA CAMPSITES — deep in the heart of the great (440,000 acre) Ocala National Forest. Electricity. Best fishing, hunting. Warranty deed.
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Can There Be Safely at Sea? (Feb, 1935)

Can There Be Safely at Sea?

SINCE the first bold man, voluntarily or involuntarily, trusted himself to a hollow log and floated out on the tide, there have been disasters at sea. In the old days, there was little that could be done, except to exercise what skill and precaution was possible with rude sailing craft, and to offer special prayers for those in danger on the deep. Read the rest of this entry »

June 18, 2010

Crashing Models for Movie Thrills (Sep, 1930)

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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Sep, 1930
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Crashing Models for Movie Thrills

by Dick Cole

Miniature models, full-size models, working models of all kinds are used by movie makers to reproduce those startling plane crashes and train wrecks which thrill you on the silver screen.

Dick Cole takes you behind the scenes with the thrill makers and shows you some of the miracles.
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Four Things Science Doesn’t Know (Apr, 1932)

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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Apr, 1932
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Four Things Science Doesn’t Know

FOUR processes which industry has used for generations without really understanding any of them were listed by Sir Frank Smith, British scientist.
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June 17, 2010

Coming—The Talking Newspaper (Nov, 1932)

Coming—The Talking Newspaper

THE day of the talking book, the talking newspaper and the talking magazine is foreshadowed in the recent invention of a French machine which reads from a strip of film-like substance any speech that is recorded on it.
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Oiled Balloons Limber up ‘Gators (Sep, 1931)

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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Sep, 1931
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Oiled Balloons Limber up ‘Gators

TRAINERS at the Los Angeles alligator farm have originated a new and unique method for exercising their century old saurian charges. A few balloons liberally smeared with fish oil and then floated over the pool do the trick. Read the rest of this entry »

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