“Vendicator” is an awesome name. It sounds like “Hahah, this will be my revenge on everyone who laughed at my idea that a machine could sell milk!”
“Lacteal fluid” is possibly the most disgusting way to say milk ever.
Cold Milk Sold by Slot Machine
THIS mechanical cow, which has been christened “Vendicator,” dispenses half pint bottles of ice cold milk for either ten or fifteen cents. All one has to do is to drop the necessary coins in the slot, turn the handle, and the bottle of lacteal fluid makes its appearance at the proper opening. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s like practice for the drug war.
Outwitting the Plant Smugglers
by James Nevin Miller
IT WAS an ordinary looking package in the hands of an honest-appearing man who stepped from the steamer Charlotte M. Hall onto the Baltimore dock not so long ago.
The parcel had passed the customs officials, and had, apparently, a clear road to its destination anywhere in the United States. Yet it contained destructive agents that bade fair to wreck hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of property, and that might have left a trail of poverty and ruined homes throughout a period of many years. Read the rest of this entry »
I don’t have the last page of this article scanned in.
Freak Effects of Sound Tested in Odd Laboratory
By ANDREW R. BOONE
MINIATURE rooms of brass and fiber board, fashioned in a strange array of shapes, are helping to solve mysteries of sound in an underground laboratory at Los Angeles, Calif. Some of the models might be small-scale reproductions of your living room, or of a theater auditorium. Others, in queer geometrical patterns like parallelograms and trapezoids, suggest rooms such as a futuristic designer might create.
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