November 20, 2009

Nile Hilton (Feb, 1959)

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Issue: Feb, 1959
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Nile Hilton

THE NEWEST HOTEL IN CAIRO … MODERN AS A TWA JETSTREAM*

CAIRO— Another Hilton Hotel! New and beautiful as the mighty TWA JETSTREAM, longest-range airliner in the world today. The magnificent, 400-room Nile Hilton, on the banks of the majestic Nile, overlooks the Pyramids, the old Citadel and the city of Cairo with its mosques, museums and historic monuments. Read the rest of this entry »

Can it be “tommyrot” when such people advocate Pelmanism? (Oct, 1925)

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Issue: Oct, 1925
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Can it be “tommyrot” when such people advocate Pelmanism?

Here are only a few of many famous men and women who advocate Pelmanism, and who use its principles themselves. With this testimony before you, can you doubt that it will benefit you ? Find out what Pelmanism has already done for over 650,000 people—send for a copy of the free book illustrated below.
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November 19, 2009

BLOW YOURSELF. . . (Mar, 1975)

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Issue: Mar, 1975
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That’s a very interestingly placed new line.

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Sixty billion vibrations per second (May, 1956)

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Issue: May, 1956
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Sixty billion vibrations per second

A great new giant of communications—a waveguide system for carrying hundreds of thousands of voices at once, as well as television programs —is being investigated at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Such a revolutionary system calls for frequencies much higher than any now used in communications. These are provided by a reflex klystron tube that oscillates at 60,000 megacycles, and produces waves only 5 mm. long.
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November 13, 2009

Expand your knowledge – Subscribe to Byte (May, 1980)

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Issue: May, 1980
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Very few people remember the magazine drive.

Expand your knowledge

Subscribe to Byte

The 1980’s are here! The decade of the personal computer has arrived, and BYTE has made it happen! BYTE – ‘ the small systems journal devoted to personal computers — has helped usher in the new era. Leading the personal computer revolution, which is already transforming home and personal life, are BYTE’s 160,000 enthusiastic readers. Their enthusiasm has made BYTE the largest computer magazine in the world! Read the rest of this entry »

October 30, 2009

Weather Will NEVER Wear Them Out (Feb, 1929)

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Issue: Feb, 1929
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“We guarantee our shingles will last longer than you will!”

Weather Will NEVER Wear Them Out

J-M ASBESTOS SHINGLES ARE EVERLASTING AND ECONOMICAL

YOU can truthfully call your roof everlasting if it is made of Johns-Manville Rigid Asbestos Shingles. Unburnable Asbestos and Portland Cement are blended under terrific pressure into rigid monolithic stone shingles.

These sturdy Shingles can never wear out—they never burn, rot, rust or warp, and their beautiful colors are as lasting as Asbestos itself. Read the rest of this entry »

Love that Quick-Wedge (Apr, 1951)

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Issue: Apr, 1951
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Pardon me, but do you have any comically large screwdrivers in stock?

Love that Quick-Wedge

- I use it instead of a conventional screwdriver!

Quick-Wedge SCREW-HOLDING SCREWDRIVER

unconditionally guaranteed

ASK FOR IT AT YOUR DEALER

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October 27, 2009

WHISKEY or DRUG HABIT (Feb, 1929)

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Issue: Feb, 1929
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Unfortunately if you like vodka, you’re screwed.

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October 26, 2009

“Gee, Mom, Were They All Poor People?” (Mar, 1938)

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Issue: Mar, 1938
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“Gee, Mom, Were They All Poor People?”

“Not exactly poor, Bobby. They had money. But they didn’t have all the nice things that we have—such as a radio, and electric lights, and a vacuum cleaner. You see, they didn’t have electricity, or automobiles, or airplanes. Most of those things hadn’t even been invented.”
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September 3, 2009

Here by your bedside, warm and glowing, is the Sun itself (Feb, 1929)

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Issue: Feb, 1929
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Here by your bedside, warm and glowing, is the Sun itself

Snap the switch and you have wrought a miracle. Out of winter’s darkness springs summer sunshine, glowing with all the warmth and vitality of June.

Only a lamp, you may say, but a lamp that is one of the triumphs of modern science, because it is in reality a miniature sun duplicating the essential rays which have made sunlight the source of life and energy for all mankind.
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September 2, 2009

effortless dictation (Sep, 1958)

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Issue: Sep, 1958
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effortless dictation

is what you get with the automatic dictating machine To operate, simply pick up mike and talk. The new Dictaphone TIME-MASTER goes on the instant you pick up the microphone. And you can start talking immediately—there’s no waiting for warm-up, thanks to transistors. Result: time saved, money saved.
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Purity Cross Creamed Chicken a la King (Apr, 1916)

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Issue: Apr, 1916
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Purity Cross Creamed Chicken a la King

Even when the maid’s away you can serve this great epicurean dish of the millionaire hotels and blue-blood clubs.

It is made of fresh young poultry, golden cream dressing of exquisite flavor, garnished with plenty of tender mushrooms. Ready to heat and serve on toast or patty shells. Delight your family at luncheon, supper or dinner. It will surprise your guest. It’s only 25c and 50c at the best grocers. If not yet at yours show this ad. and he will order it; or I will supply you direct at the special price of $1.40 a half dozen for the 25c size, or $2.25 for the 50c size express prepaid if you send best grocer’s name.

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