It seems like once you get past the girl falling out the window and all, this ad is really for Insurance Adjuster school, which sounds a lot less glamourous than the C.S.I like image portrayed in the picture.

INVESTIGATE ACCIDENTS
Train quickly in your own home for repeat income in the exciting, secure Claim Investigation and Claim Adjusting field. Our students and graduates are already earning $4, $5, $6 an hour extra SPARE TIME — and up to $10,000 a year Full Time. You need NO prior experience or higher education. Your age does NOT matter.

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I’m not really sure what they’re trying to say in this ad… I think it’s either: “Marvel Oil will blow up your car”, or “Marvel oil is made of atomic bombs”.

FOR POWER
AND PERFORMANCE!
MARVEL Mystery Oil
More than 30 years of scientific research have gone into Marvel Mystery Oil, to meet the lubrication demands of today’s high - compression engines. Use in crankcase, gas tank, or top cylinder oiler… the ideal cure for hydraulic valve trouble.
See your dealer or write: EMEROL MANUFACTURING CO., INC.,
Depl 234, 242 West 69th St., New York 23. New York
BE ENGINE WISE…MARVELIZE NOW!

I think this is the only time i have ever seen the word rape used in an advertisement.

“REPORT FROM ROTTERDAM”
Secret underground broadcasters still send out news of what the brave Dutch are doing to upset the Nazi “new Disorder”. Radio furnishes the ONE link between conquered countries and the outside world. In war, as in peace, The Radio Shack continues to play its part in the field of communications . . . now supplying vital equipment to help hasten the day of victory, and revenge for the rape of Rotterdam.

BUY WAR BONDS and STAMPS

THE RADIO SHACK
167 Washington St.
Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

THE NEW LOGRING
Digital Graph Plotter
THE LOGRING DIGITAL GRAPH PLOTTER automatic-
ally plots one variable against another algebraically in incremental steps, in response to electrical impulses. It is ideally adapted for use as a read-out device for electronic digital computers, especially digital differential analyzers, and for use in connection with such problems as aircraft tracking and automatic data reduction.
• plots at speeds up to 20 steps per second, in incremental steps of 1/64 of an inch.
• simultaneous movement on both axes in either direction.
• can be controlled electronically or by external or remote switches or relays.
• will make several carbon copies or duplicating stencil.
• instant manual positioning of pen and drum.
• takes 12″ x 18″ paper or continuous 12″ strip.
Mechanical simplicity ..high reliability ..digital accuracy ..quick pen cartridge change..self-contained power supply.
Additional information supplied on request.
LOGISTICS RESEARCH COMPANY
141 South Pacific Avenue
Redondo Beach, California

Not too shabby for $62K in 1952, this thing operates at .12Mhz has roughly 2K of memory and each tape holds around 360K.
Plus for all you case modders, it already comes with 200 glowing tubes. Try to beat that with your little LEDs.

ANNOUNCING A GENERAL PURPOSE DIGITAL COMPUTER
to meet all your
COMPUTING NEEDS

Price $62,500
complete with tape drive and typewriter
Available 120 days*

ELECOM 110 — SPECIFICATIONS

MEMORY—magnetic drum, 512 word capacity. WORD LENGTH—30 binary digits and sign.

ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS—Addition; Subtraction; Multiplication (with round-off); multiplication (complete product); Division (with round-off); division (with remainder).

LOGICAL OPERATIONS— extraction; shift right; shift left; tally; overflow branch; conditional transfer of control (branch); halt; input and output operations.

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MAKE MONEY CASTING AT HOME

Make your own rubber molds quickly, cheaply with X.L. RUBBER. Cast thousands of perfect figurines, book ends, plaques, ornaments, ash trays, etc. GREAT PROFITS!
Write for NEW Catalog.
X.L. Rubber, Pts. $2.00; Qts. $3.00; Gallons $8.95;
Models and enough rubber for 3 molds $1.30 postpaid.
Free Facts Sent
PLASTIC ARTS STUDIO
Dept. 2, 3403 S.
MADISON ST.,
Muncie Ind.

This machine was also known as the UNIVAC 1103

ANOTHER REMINGTON RAND ELECTRONIC DEVELOPMENT
Remington Rand introduces the ERA 1103 general-purpose computer system

ADVANCED LOGICAL AND ENGINEERING FEATURES
â–  ACCOMMODATES WIDE OPTION OP DIRECT INPUT-OUTPUT DEVICES
Punched-card equipment Communications circuits Punched-paper and magnetic tapes Process-actuating mechanisms High-speed printers Graphic visual displays
â–  FLEXIBLE DATA REPRESENTATION
Alphabetic and numeric data in any code
â–  INHERENT HIGH SPEED AND LARGE CAPACITY
Coordinated electrostatic and magnetic drum storage Magnetic tape storage
â–  EFFICIENT, VERSATILE PROGRAMMING
Powerful instruction repertoire Flexible two-address logic
â–  UNEXCELLED RELIABILITY
Components of service-proved design Preventive diagnostic features Integral air conditioning
â–  LOW DATA-PROCESSING COST
For complete information about the application of the ERA 1103 to your problems, write on your business letterhead to Room 1734, 315 Fourth Ave., New York 10.

It seems to me that anyone who would use the phrase “Getting Closer to Infinity” does not really understand the concept of infinity.

GETTING CLOSER TO INFINITY
Businessmen, engineers, and scientists now are solving problems in scientific and industrial data processing which, a few short years ago, would have been considered well-nigh infinite.

IBM Electronic Business Machines are making an important contribution to this progress. These machines accomplish once-overwhelming tasks with incredible speed and accuracy … freeing thousands of valuable minds for creative effort.

IBM
ELECTRONIC BUSINESS MACHINES
International Business Machines

Dissatisfaction- AMERICA’S GREATEST ASSET

Opportunities to create better products exist in every home and industry in America today. But only a few, dissatisfied men and women recognize these opportunities. Such leaders are advancing their respective industries. They possess vision. They are spurred by initiative. Feather dusters have no place in their planning.

Since 1938, Meletron has been producing excellent instruments that are used by every major aircraft manufacturer. But we are constantly testing new materials and devising new methods. Leadership in this industry imposes the obligation to improve, because tomorrow’s standards will be higher. Dis-
satisfaction with what has been accomplished, plus a determination to improve, is America’s greatest asset.

For all you us sci-fi nerds out there.

YOU are an EARTHMAN..
YOU EXIST IN THAT
Exciting INTERPLANETARY
WORLD of TOMORROW!
Here are the newest and best books on ROBOTS by the publishers of the, most popular novels in Science-Fiction.

I ROBOT by Isaac Asimov
$2.50 - A truly great book written by one of the finest science fiction writers of our time. Based on the authors famed POSITRONIC ROBOT in a dramatically warm and exciting novel of thinking machines.

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Whew, now I know where to go for all of my high-voltage ionizing radiation needs. Thank you High Voltage Engineering Corporation!

because . . .

The ionizing intensity of its electron beam, at 2 MeV, is several thousand-fold greater than the most powerful radioactive sources now available. The same accelerator will deliver 5000 roentgens per minute of x-radiation at 10 centimeters.

The cost of radiation energy from a Van de Graaff, in terms of gram-rep in the irradiated material, is only a tiny fraction of the costs associated with natural or artificial radioactivity.

The electron or x-ray beam from a Van de Graaff is fully controllable in direction and shape, permitting efficient utilization of energy output.

Your specific questions about Van de Graaff equipment will be answered fully and promptly. Our experience in applied radiation energy is at your disposal in planning your research program.

High Voltage Engineering Corporation

7 UNIVERSITY ROAD CAMBRIDGE 38, MASSACHUSETTS

WANT IT LATER?
You can delay that signal with an
ERA BOUNDARY-DISPLACEMENT MAGNETIC RECORDING DELAY LINE

FREQUENCY RANGE—any five-octave band between 5 cps and 30,000cps, with appropriate drum speed.

DELAY—up to 1000 wavelengths of information storage per channel; 200-second delay maximum at 5 cps—proportionately less with increase in frequency.

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