Artificial Silk Made From Air
PROF. Harold Hibbert, of McGill University, Montreal, has completed successful experiments whereby he is able to spin out artificial silk from the atmosphere. The constitutents in the air with which he dealt were water and carbon dioxide. With this new method, artificial silk, cotton and paper can be manufactured without the use of the cotton plant or the spruce tree.
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Art - By Gum!
MRS. Faye Garriott of Gardena, California, has chewing gum all over her walls but she doesn’t mind. She put it there herself. She makes gum pictures.
She began using gum some 25 years ago to patch furniture and picture frames by molding it to fill chipped surfaces. Then she began making pictures themselves.
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Smoking Now No Effort at All—Dispenser Gives You Lighted Cigarette
SMOKING is coming to be such a convenient matter that it is a wonder any of us can resist becoming insatiable cigarette fiends. The latest device to ease the labor of lighting up a fag is an electric desk dispenser which delivers one cigarette at a time, fully lighted and ready to smoke.
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Learn While You Sleep
By Lester David
The small voice under the pillow can teach you anything from self-confidence to college math.
HELEN McGRATH was fast asleep. At her bedside was a tape recorder, quietly repeating words into her subconscious mind. You’d never mistake the scene for a classroom, yet it was exactly that. Because Helen McGrath was learning Spanish while she snoozed!
For six and a half hours that night, one lesson was played over and over again, words and phrases burrowing deep into her mind. On waking, Helen played the lesson through once again.
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Eight Hands For the Typist
Insurance company increases its policy-writing production by 400 percent with addition of automatic typing equipment.
Three banks of automatic typing equipment, installed in the underwriting section of the Combined Insurance Co. of America, Chicago, have increased the company’s policy-writing output 400 percent.
One typist operating each bank of four units can produce as many policies in a day as four girls were able to produce typing policies, identification cards, company records and welcoming letters individually.
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IT’S NEW!
ARMY “MULE,” new four-cylinder cousin of famous Jeep, is first military vehicle to carry load greater than its own weight. It can climb 72 per cent slope on rough terrain.
FRENCH STYLE taxi hailer will help do away with noise in Paris. City fathers are trying to quell unnecessary bedlam.
GOGGOMOBIL is tiny new four-seat, rear-engined German rig which gets claimed 61.4 miles to gallon, 60 mph top speed.
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THEY KEPT THEIR G-eyes OPEN
While on duty with the Armed Forces, these Gl’s picked up ideas that meant money and careers for them in later years.
By Lester David
DID you ever think of the Army as a source for million-dollar ideas? And not for the mammoth corporations, either, but for the average working Joe in uniform? Well, it’s incredibly, and very happily, a fact.
It was a cold, dismal mid-morning at Wright Field in Ohio. Lieutenant Lloyd Rudd straightened up from his laboratory workbench in the engineering division, stretched and called: “Hey, Sarge, how’s about a cup of hot Java?”
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