August 1, 2011

YOUR LIFE TEN YEARS FROM TODAY (Nov, 1956)

That is a gorgeous toolkit on the third page.

YOUR LIFE TEN YEARS FROM TODAY

During the next 10 years the world will see changes dramatic as those introduced by the industrial revolution. Technicological progress will be equal in this period to that of any previous five decades, and in its wake will come new problems. If man can foresee and meet these challenges, our way of life in 10 years could be amazingly different.

by Leo Cherne

The progress of these next 10 years will be as dramatic, as filled with change, as jampacked with impact for American business in the total American community as any 50 years in the entire development of civilized man.
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NETWORKING (May, 1982)

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Issue: May, 1982
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NETWORKING

If you like to communicate with others, the CompuServe Information Service is your most effective vehicle. Why? Because we have the largest customer base of any videotex system in North America. And we have hundreds of new subscribers each week.
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POPULAR SCIENCE-ON-THE-SCREEN (Mar, 1940)

Judging by the picture, this looks like some pretty heavy colonialist propaganda.

IN CINECOLOR —SEE and HEAR the latest release of POPULAR SCIENCE-ON-THE-SCREEN

the glamorous story of Hawaii’s Pineapple Industry

Produced in Cinecolor by FAIRBANKS AND CARLISLE
Distributed by PARAMOUNT PICTURES.

Health, Beauty Perfect Figure for Every Woman (Mar, 1922)

Health, Beauty Perfect Figure for Every Woman

MISS VERA ROEHM world famous Physical Culturist and Fascinating Stage Beauty who has completed the most effective woman’s course ever conceived.

You Can Become THE WOMAN You Have Always Wanted to Be With radiant health, rare poise and grace, and a perfect figure you will be more attractive than you ever dared hope. Men will admire you. Women will envy you. You. yourself, will feel like a different woman —a happier, prettier, more carefree one with that pleasing personality which always becomes part of such a woman. Read the rest of this entry »

ODD “PINWHEEL CAMERA” CATCHES LIGHTNING (Nov, 1936)

ODD “PINWHEEL CAMERA” CATCHES LIGHTNING

Vagaries of lightning bolts are recorded with a “pinwheel camera” devised by Prof.

John G. Albright of the Case School of Applied Science. At the height of an electrical storm, the shutters of the cameras mounted on a wheel are opened, and the wheel is rotated rapidly by hand. A multiple lightning discharge along a single path is recorded as a series of parallel streaks, and a study of the film gives a clear picture of its behavior. Through the curious arrangement of the cameras, every part of the sky is covered.

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