Bearings Move Todays World
BIG AND LITTLE of precision-made steel balls that smooth the path of modern industry and transportation. The big sphere, six inches in diameter, will go into a mammoth hot-oil valve in a refinery. Read the rest of this entry »
FOR BEST RESULTS: shave with Barbasol
Cultivating? (the lady)
You can—with a Barbasol face!To make a Tiger Lily purr—try Barbasol! With Barbasol you get closer, easier, more comfortable shaves that last all day. Read the rest of this entry »
Preview of The 1957 National Automobile Show
A million visitors are expected to attend this $10,000,000 exhibition of new cars and trucks.
By Roger Gregg
FOR THE first time in 16 years the motor car industry is getting together to stage an exhibition of its new models. This 42d edition of the famed National Automobile Show will be held December 8-16 in New York’s brand-new showplace, the Coliseum. Read the rest of this entry »
Homes That Glow in the Dark
Modern lighting adopts fluorescence to achieve harmony of illumination with architectural design and decor Lighting for the modern home can be beautiful as well I as scientifically correct. Fluorescent lighting makes all this possible now; and gone forever are the days when fluorescent fixtures caused kitchen, bathroom, or living room to look like a hospital. Read the rest of this entry »
SUPER Supermarket
Painless marketing has arrived for the housewives of Ridge wood, N. J., where the Grand Union store is trying out a spectacular new self-service gadget called Food-O-Mat. In simplest terms, Food-O-Mat works on the principle of the familiar paper-cup dispenser: take out one item, and another slides or rolls down an inclined metal ramp to take its place. Read the rest of this entry »
“Bowling Ball” Lumbering
Crashing through an area to be cleared, these giant steel balls can topple timber like tenpins—at 50 acres an hour.
BY JAMES NEVIN MILLER
SCORES of times every day in an area near Hungry Horse, Montana, a man-made hurricane takes place. Hurtling through heavy timber with relentless force and a crash heard for miles, a giant steel ball, as big as a garage, snaps trees two feet thick as easily as if they were match sticks. Read the rest of this entry »
TV Tape Takes to Road
Have you noticed “live” location pictures on your TV screen lately? It’s probably mobile videotape.
WHEN Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev visited a farm and meat packing plant at Coon Rapids, Iowa, CBS-TV newsmen knew they had a scoop. No, they weren’t the only ones there. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m going to be in Las Vegas at TAM 8 for the next couple of days so posting will be a bit light. (Lack of posts last week was due to a delightfully incapacitating case of strep throat.)
If anyone else on the site is attending and wants to meet up for a drink, drop me a line
HOW’S YOUR “AROUSAL”?
Now the psychograph shows your reaction to the advertisements A successful advertisement is one with immediate emotional impact. Ad men have long sought a scientific means to gauge that impact before releasing a million-dollar campaign. Read the rest of this entry »
When cars have a life expectancy of 1,000,000 miles…
chances are that research with electron diffraction will have helped make this come true
•The General Electric electron diffraction instrument is versatile and easy to operate. The unit consists of vacuum system, electron gun, power supply and complete camera assembly — all the components required to produce both reflection and transmission photographs from a wide variety of samples. Read the rest of this entry »
electronics “talks” to the universe through
Cosmic Clearing House
By Lloyd Mallan
Life on other planets? How can we communicate?
These are questions for Cornell’s new space center.
THERE are about ten-billion suns in our “local” universe, the Milky Way. Will man be able to communicate with countless planets that are probably revolving about them? Is our knowledge of radio adequate? Read the rest of this entry »
Despite what this ad says I’ve found that girls do not react well when you ask if they’d like to “share a Slurp Special at the local fizz palace”.
And poor Egbert. Not only did his parents name him Egbert, he just got compared to a pad. Good old Eggie…
Are you in the know?
When a girl changes schools, what’s a good move?
_ Try stalking the stags _Pick yourself a palAs “the new girl,” you’ll be noticed —but don’t expect a brass band greeting. (Your new classmates may be shy, too!) Why not ask one gal to share a Slurp Special at the local fizz palace? Bimebye, you’ll be buddies. Getting okayed by the ladies first — leads to meeting the boy-people. Same as the confidence you need, on certain days, begins with the comfort you get with Kotex. This napkin (so absorbent!) has softness that holds its shape. Made to stay soft for hours and hours!
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