Here’s Happiness
IT’S WINTER. The sun’s short day is quickly over. Cold, bleak, dreary darkness penetrates the countryside. But in more than 350,000 farm homes there’s happiness. Electricity by Delco-Light spreads its cheerful brightness. 350,000 farm families enjoy just reward of the day’s toil.
Will Your Home be One of Them?
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This kind of reminds me of the Boat Church in Ian McDonald’s excellent book Brasyl.
Church Goes To Sea
WHEN the congregation can’t go to church, the church goes to the congregation, along the Parana River in the Argentine.
This floating church, 108 feet long, has steeple, stained glass windows and altar. Built in the government’s Buenos Aires shipyard, the hull of an old vessel was transformed into a church by the Lincoln arc-weld process.
Before this floating church made its appearance, many of the church-goers of that section were unable to attend formal worship.
This is pretty terrifying, though I suppose it is just a much cruder form of how we use psychiatric drugs today.
A few things I noticed:
1. obviously being gay is a disorder.
2. they didn’t say if the prisoners were actually given any choice about their operations.
3. what did they do to the kids?
4. This quote
“It points also to the more illuminating truth that if the grandparents, or even the parents, of these men had been given proper medical and surgical treatment for their own glandular abnormalities, their children and their grandchildren would not have offended society…”
sounds like Lamarckism. Though according to Wikipedia that theory seems to be making a comeback.
5. Apparently you can tell a criminal by their face. From the pictures in the article that seems to mean “Foreign Looking”.
Crooks Cured by Surgeons Knife
Here for the first time is the amazing story of how criminals in San Quentin prison, California, are made honest by giving them healthy glands.
By H. H. DUNN
THE surgeon’s knife and the laboratory test tube have entered the campaign against crime. Experimental researches, carried on over a number of years and beginning to show results in control and reform institutions this summer, indicate that criminal tendencies may be eradicated, development of the criminal averted, and the established criminal restored to normal by medical and surgical treatment. Read the rest of this entry »
CORRUGATED PLATING DEFLECTS ARMOR-PIERCING BULLETS
BY FURROWING the surface of metal plate with angular ridges, a Philadelphia inventor has materially increased the strength of armor designed for use on tanks, warships, and aircraft. In recent ballistic experiments conducted before ordnance experts, high-powered bullets fired from a distance of fifty yards pierced a test section of flat armor plate one half inch thick. When a slightly thinner section of corrugated armor was used, however, bullets fired from the same distance failed to penetrate its surface, but ricocheted off the sides. Armor penetration depends on a bullet’s angle of impact. Corrugated armor plate, the inventor explains, presents a surface inclined at an angle of forty-five degrees; bullets strike it a glancing rather than a direct blow.
Now, more channels, plummeting prices for new backyard satellite-TV antennas
Better quality, easier-to-use features, and affordable do-it-yourself kits make home Earth stations practical
By SUSAN RENNER-SMITH
The view from my hotel room was so incongruous that I burst out laughing. A score of gleaming dish antennas squatted in the parking lot below me, facing the southern sky. It looked as if a giant mushroom crop had sprouted in the starlight. Then I saw the glowing TV set near one dish. People crouched around it watching, I knew, a program broadcast by some far-off satellite. Read the rest of this entry »
The Little Network That Might
Fox is still around after a year, stumbling but scrappy
Well, no one ever said starting a fourth network would be easy. The Fox Broadcasting Co., Rupert Murdoch’s ambitious effort to compete with abc, cbs and nbc, has weathered enough tin-pot tragedies in its brief life to fill a month on Another World. Joan Rivers’ much publicized attempt to challenge Johnny Carson with her own talk show ended in ignominious cancellation after seven months on the air. Read the rest of this entry »
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Print Shop on Wheels Runs Off Race Programs at Track
There are more ways than one to lose money at a race track, and one of them is printing too many programs—or too few. If too many are printed the left-overs are wasted; if too few, betting falls off and the track loses money. So when Barnwell Ellicott, head of the Official Program Corporation, approached New York track managers with a plan for a mobile printing press that could turn out programs at the rate of 10,000 an hour just before the gates opened, the managers jumped at the chance. Read the rest of this entry »
Wireless Cigarette Lighter
A NEW cigar lighter attached to the automobile dash board is pressed until a red glow appears and can then be removed.
THE Superiority of MODERN WOMAN
More and more women have invaded fields from which their supposed physical, mental or psychological limitations once barred them. With increasing opportunities and a formidable record of success in competition with men, women are now laying claim not only to equality but even to superiority. By recognizing the fields of their superiority, women can attain their proper place in society and perform vital functions for the benefit of mankind in this no-longer-a-man’s world.
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Air Photos Made by Army Pigeons
TINY aerial photos, snapped by a little camera attached to a carrier pigeon, are being made in Germany, where these birds are trained for military purposes. One of the small cameras, fastened to a pigeon’s body, can take six automatic snapshots while the bird is in flight. Read the rest of this entry »
Whatever Happened to Computer Hobbyists?
by Louis E. Frenzel, Jr.
The microcomputer industry, a field pioneered primarily by hobbyists, is now a major U.S. enterprise. Thanks to a never-ending supply of high technology components, good software and major shifts in the marketplace, the microcomputer field is no longer the curiosity it once was.
Those responsible for building the first microcomputers, applying them to a wide variety of tasks and making us all aware of them, were computer hobbyists. But today, the big emphasis is on business, professional and industrial applications. Has the hobbyist disappeared completely? Let’s explore the changing role of the hobbyist in the dynamic micro marketplace. Read the rest of this entry »
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