WHAT IS THE AT&T?
All that most people see of the telephone company are a telephone and a few feet of wire.
But through that telephone you can talk with any one of millions of people, all linked together by the web of equipment of the Bell System.
All its efforts are turned constantly to one job—to give better telephone service to an ever-increasing number of people, as cheaply as it possibly can. Read the rest of this entry »
Unfortunately it would run out of fuel in about a minute.
Rocket Train Faster than Sound
TOMORROW’S train will be too fast for a timetable. Leave New York at 12 noon for the coast, and you’ll arrive in Los Angeles at the same time, the same day!
How’s that? At 1,000-mph your train will travel as fast as the sun in its apparent motion across the earth from east to west. You’ll pace the sun through every time zone from Eastern Standard to Pacific Time as your wheel-less train glides across the continent in three hours on its graphite-lubricated slippers. It’ll take the sun three hours to race the same distance, and you’ll flash into L.A. in a dead heat—at the same time you started! Read the rest of this entry »
it’s open season on Vanaca flannels
Just you try and keep out of her ‘sights’ with these bird-bright 100% virgin wool Vanaca flannel sport shirts. Famous Van Heusen he-man styling and action tailoring make you fair game for any dame.
Solid colors or Sportchecks. $10.00
Van Heusen Full-Fashion Knit ties… $1.50
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SCIENCE NEWS of the MONTH
Estimates of Universe’s Size Vary
•IN the latest estimate of the size of the universe, contained in the Smithsonian tables of scientific data, there is considerable latitude. The largest estimate of the mileage, that of Dr. Edwin Hubble, is 190 billion light-years, or 1,140 sextillion miles. The smallest is that of Dr. Willem de Sitter, 76 quintillion miles, or 13 million light-years. The ratio is that between a mile and a third of an inch, or 15,000 to one, between these guesses. At any rate, it’s a long walk before breakfast. Read the rest of this entry »
Alas, cats are not the same. I bought my cat a cardboard plane and he refused to ever get in it.
Coming Generation Is Growing Naturally Into the Idea of Flying
WASH tubs, wheel barrows, newspapers—in fact anything young children can lay their hands on—are being converted into transport planes, fighters and gliders of the queerest shapes and designs. Youngsters have accepted aviation as a permanent fixture and are preparing for it in their own way. Instead of playing policeman, cowboy or house, both boys and girls are pretending they are pilots, guiding a ship through the sky.
Germany Awakens
PEWTER, PLIERS AND PORSCHES
German manufacturers make a vast array of products for the special tastes of foreign consumers
For millions of shoppers around the world the words “made in Germany” have always meant such ingenious, finely machined articles as are arranged on the opposite page. These products, once again available to consumers everywhere, still bear the mark of the clever and inventive German mind. The Niirnberg and Black Forest toy industries have repeated their prewar successes with steam engines, working cranes and remote-controlled automobiles and moved into new educational fields with plastic motors. Camera companies, which perfected their Leicas, Contaxes, Rolleiflexes and Linhofs before the war, have refined new models. New German ideas range from an automobile dashboard gadget that whips up a cup of coffee to a Plexiglas-covered scooter. Read the rest of this entry »
Remember to always pay close attention when a Nazi enslaved zombie Frankenstein gives you car care tips, or you could end up just like them!
We Could Learn FROM A NAZI SLAVE – We Motorists!
They can give us some worth-while pointers … those Greeks and Danes and Frenchmen … Serbs and Czechs and Poles … who once were proud, free men like ourselves.
They never had cars —most of them —even before the Horror came. They don’t know about brakes or batteries or tires. But they do know things we haven’t yet learned.
They do know about tanks . . . that turned peaceful village streets into nightmares of blood and fear and death. They know about dive bombers … that filled the night with the light of burning homes and the cries of slaughtered children. They know the cost… in pain and shame and misery… of holding freedom too lightly or defending it too late. Read the rest of this entry »
Remember that safety standards and knowledge of long-term chemical effects on people were VERY different in 1931. Please refrain from actually trying any of the pranks here. Besides possibly hurting yourself or others, it’ll just make you look like a dick.
JUST for FUN
by Kenneth Murray
The practical joker is always with us, but unfortunately for the gayety of nations, he sometimes runs out of ideas. Here are a few joke novelties which are entirely mechanical and which you can make yourself in no time at very little expense.
SPEAKING of jokes, here are some that you can have a lot of fun with. Have you ever “bit” on the old one of picking a thread off the lapel of a friend’s coat, to find that it is connected to a concealed spool holding yards and yards? Well, here are some more good ones; entirely mechanical so that you needn’t possess unusual dexterity to secure a laugh, and you can turn them all out in the workshop in a couple of hours. Then for some fun! Read the rest of this entry »
Radio Camera outfit lets the photo-minded girl snap a picture without missing her favorite radio show. It weighs less than 4 pounds, is 9-1/2 inches high.
new for the home
UTILITY and beauty in modern styling for your home are in evidence in the new furniture shown on this page. They are a part of the Chicago Furniture Mart show held recently.
The old problem of what to do with your extra table leaves when not in use has been studied by furniture designers. The result is the modern buffet shown in Picture No. 1 which provides storage space. Just slide the leaves under as the girl is doing.
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The Cult of VIRILITY
A discussion of the fears and worries that lie behind the tough bravado of would-be he-men.
by Richard Stiller, M. A.
Quite recently an acquaintance of mine was congratulated on the birth of his first child. One of the well-wishers—a long-married but childless man who was well-known for his athletic vigor and his very aggressive personality—said: “Well, at least nobody can question your virility.”
Obviously this outwardly masculine man had some private doubts about his public image as a 100 per cent male figure.
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He’s using the telephone that lends an extra hand
For people who want to keep both hands free when they telephone, Bell Telephone Laboratories engineers have devised a new telephone with a sensitive microphone in its base.
To use it, simply press a button. The microphone picks up your voice and sends it on its way. Your party’s voice comes to you through a small loudspeaker. Both hands are left free.
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