This seems like it would be incredibly imprecise. It seems like if you wanted to cheat, you could abstain from pressing the first button and then press the second to vote. You would essentially get counted twice. Try that trick with a really powerful transmitter and you could probably throw the whole vote.
“TALK-BACK” for your RADIO
NO problem of the commercially sponsored radio broadcast is more vital than the determination of listener response. What percentage of people like a program and what per cent do not. If the president asked his radio audience to vote “yes” or “no” on an important question how valuable it would be if he could learn the trend of opinion on the topic by the next morning; and with no more trouble to the listener than the mere pushing of a button on his radio set. Read the rest of this entry »
Unfortunately it would run out of fuel in about a minute.
Rocket Train Faster than Sound
TOMORROW’S train will be too fast for a timetable. Leave New York at 12 noon for the coast, and you’ll arrive in Los Angeles at the same time, the same day!
How’s that? At 1,000-mph your train will travel as fast as the sun in its apparent motion across the earth from east to west. You’ll pace the sun through every time zone from Eastern Standard to Pacific Time as your wheel-less train glides across the continent in three hours on its graphite-lubricated slippers. It’ll take the sun three hours to race the same distance, and you’ll flash into L.A. in a dead heat—at the same time you started! Read the rest of this entry »
I’m pretty sure that if these existed, we’d have seen them by now.
TOEHOLD IN SPACE
Tiny moonlets, encircling our earth, might be used as jumping-off points for space travel.
By Stanley Carson
HOW many moons has the earth? If your answer is one, you may be wrong! Astronomers believe that there actually are one or several small satellites orbiting with tremendous speed between the earth and the moon.
If the predictions of our astronomers are correct, and there are a number of small moons circling the earth at short distances, then space travel may become a reality many more years sooner than is anticipated. For the moonlets which our government is now searching for can be used as ready-made stations in space. Read the rest of this entry »
There’s a good reason the Hugo awards are given for writing Science Fiction and not Romance.
The Future: Electronic Mating
A look into the more rational marriage choice of the future, by a science expert on things-to-come.
By Hugo Gernsback
Marriage still remains man’s greatest gamble. The world’s divorce rate constantly accelerates at a dizzying rate. Clearly there is something seriously wrong with our customs and our approach to marriage—it cries out for radical reform.
People rarely speculate why so many of our most dazzling “sexy” beauties of screen and theater shed husbands like a pair of gloves, and why other famous and exquisitely beautiful women, with the most alluring anatomies, never marry at all.
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So milk cures P.T.S.D? Someone should tell the Defense Department!
Milk Cured My Nerve Shock
The Story of the Physical Regeneration of W. J. McLemore
An Interview and Introduction by Edwin F, Bowers, M. D
ILLUSTRATION BY LEONARD WHITNEY
ONE of the most deplorable, disheartening and distressing results of the War is our crop of cripples. The cruelly maimed, the pathetic blind, the derelicts who have lost legs or arms in the bestial, bitter game, are figures of sorrow. They affect every decent-minded man or woman with an overshadowing sense of resentment and protest at the futility of it all.
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Hoover of course would go on to be president and have a lovely series of outdoor living communities named after him. Weyerhaeuser is currently the largest paper company in the US.
It’s a little unclear to me why the Committee on Wood Utilization needed the plank aside from getting plugged in Modern Mechanix.
Uncle Sam Delivers Timber Sent First Class Mail
UNCLE SAM was recently called upon to perform a rather odd duty as postman. The erstwhile Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Herbert Hoover, needed a specific piece of lumber as a sample for the meeting of the National Committee on Wood Utilization. The meeting was scheduled in Washington. The lumber was in St. Paul, Minnesota. Read the rest of this entry »
