4.8 Billion dollars used to be real money.
How Much Is $4,880,000,000?
TO complete the work of national recovery, Congress a few days ago appropriated this stupendous sum, to be spent under presidential direction or supervision; and experts at once went to work with pencil and paper to appraise its magnitude. Read the rest of this entry »
It Reknits Hosiery
Run-Repairer Is Worth Millions
GASP of dismay bursts from the lips of the wife. The husband looks up startled. Only-some extraordinary catastrophe could call forth such a devastating outburst from the little woman who usually is so placid, refined and self-possessed. She continues.
“Look at that stocking! Hopelessly ruined! Just bought today. Read the rest of this entry »
THE AIRLINES MUST COME DOWN TO EARTH
There’s something wrong with aviation. Suddenly, after making an amazing war record, the airlines have found themselves deluged with criticism. Air travelers, weary of delays and irritated by uncertain arrivals of planes, have begun to object. And their objections have been frequently and vociferously expressed. To date, the airlines have not been able to do much to help themselves. Keeping passengers sitting in airplanes for an hour, or two, or more, waiting to take off, has not made friends for the lines; nor has the business of “stacking” planes for long periods above congested terminals.
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Everybody a Builder!
ONE OF THE fundamental urges in the soul of every man is the urge for self expression.
In some men it is music which touches a responsive chord, and these men find satisfaction in playing a musical instrument. In others, sports afford an outlet for self expression. Still others turn to mechanics and science as a means for satisfying the urge to create. Read the rest of this entry »
This article manages to be incredibly condescending, naive, and wrong all at the same time.
The Shocking Tragedy of Negroes Who Pass As White
by ERNEST WARREN
Back in the days when recognition was just coming to him, Sammy Davis, Jr., looked like the ideal choice to fill an important serio-dramatic part in a new movie. When the expected bid failed to materialize, a friend tried to console Sammy. “Don’t worry about it, kid,” the friend said, “You know you’re better than the guy they picked. Read the rest of this entry »
Most Scientific Fiction Can’t Come True
by WILLIAM J. HARRIS
You’ve probably read scores of so-called scientific fiction stories, but the chances are you don’t know why most of these tales can’t possibly come true. Mr. Harris sets forth here the scientific objections to fantastic projects such as transporting a human being by radio and rocketing to Mars.
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Windows? Bah, who needs windows when I’ve got sunlamps?
More Leisure for Man in the Automatic Age
by L. Warrington Chubb
Director of Research, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.
As told to J. EARLE MILLERMr. Chubb describes in this remarkable article a number of the amazing inventions recently developed which promise to free man from toil at machines, to better health, and to add greatly to the comforts of home life.
IN A ROOM down the hall an electric eye is busy at a task that human eyes and hands have always performed. Nearby an electric organ fills the building with the deep, soft notes of a cathedral instrument. Across the way a facsimile machine receives and dispatches exact copies of written or printed pages, a cathode tube flickers with the moving picture of electricity in transit, and a beam of polarized light passing through a piece of celluloid is telling its master that railroad rails are being made with too much steel near their base and not enough just beneath the flange on which the car wheels glide. Read the rest of this entry »
Bad Liquor Causes Liver Disease
A DANGEROUS liver disease accompanied by the deposit of iron compounds in the skin is believed to be caused by drinking liquor containing copper from the stills used by incompetent distillers.
Physicians have long recognized a condition called hemochromatosis in which the cells of the liver are killed or damaged; resulting, among other things, in the partial destruction of the red corpuscles. The red iron compound of these corpuscles is then changed chemically into other compounds which may be deposited in the skin, turning it bronze in color.
How to Marry and Not Make a Mistake
How to Select the Right Mate —– Marriage Is Not the Lottery We Once Thought It Was
By David Arnold Balch
THERE is a story told that Auguste Comte, the great French positive philosopher, took down the volumes of his work from the library shelves that held them and rewrote, on two different occasions, his changed and changing views of love. The first had been recorded in his young manhood; the second, in the middle distance of his life; and the third, in his old age, when he had learned all that it was probable he would learn about woman and her relationship to man. Read the rest of this entry »
Two things:
a) I’m not sure they could have come up with a more offensive picture to represent the cook in the last panel.
b) Dick Hyman. Really?
It’s the Law!
BY Dick hyman
In Collingswood, N. J., dogs are forbidden by ordinance to bark between the hours of 8 PM. and 6 A.M.
An ordinance in Mt. Pulaski, Ill., forbids boys to throw snowballs at trees within the city limits.
It is against the law in Maryland to knock a freight train off the track.
Florida has a law forbidding you to hire away your neighbor’s cook
IT’S THE LAW appears each month in The American Magazine
Go South, Young Man
Amazonia, a land of fabulous unclaimed wealth, beckons now to men of vision.
By Lester David
THIS is the story of the richest treasure trove in the world today and of frontiersmen who are tapping bonanzas from a land of incredible opportunity. It is the story of a territory that has a welcome sign up for venturesome pioneers, backed by a promise of untold wealth. It is, in short, the story of the mammoth Amazon River basin in South America, by far the greatest storehouse of unworked natu- ral resources on the face of the globe.
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Her Brains Didn’t Get in Her Way
First her I.Q., then her beauty, brought fame and fortune to Vanessa Brown. Now, in Broadway’s funniest hit, she demonstrates that nothing succeeds like sex BY HYMAN GOLDBERG
When a movie called “I’ve Always Loved You” opened several years ago, a young critic named Smylla Brind declared in the student newspaper of the University of California at Los Angeles that Vanessa Brown, the feminine lead, made the picture seem much better than it was. Miss Brown would bear watching, the young critic wrote, for she was certain to make her mark as a serious actress. Read the rest of this entry »
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