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. Read the rest of this entry »

No Callouses From These Tools

TOOL handles with cup-like depressions in the sides are now available to workmen. It is claimed that the depressions form a vacuum when the hand presses against them, helping to maintain a firm grip on the tool without grasping the handle so firmly as to cause callouses.

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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Eye Stoppers

EYES ICE Cutter studies big $2,500,000 rock in New York shop of jeweler Harry Winston.

HEAP’S CHEAP Florida man’s 85-hp homebuilt cost $200 for motor, parts.

CREEPS DEEP In new suit Italian diver can go down to a record 820—foot depth.

WEARS WARES; London vendor sells his plants from novel pick-a-back planter-carrier.

TAPES SHAPE Petite brunette, 12 inches tall, displays truly trim and chic hip measurement.

Vacuum Cleaner Brushes Clothes
LOCATED in a place handy to the passing public, this new invention is proving a satisfactory substitute for hand brushes. The device, shown in photo below, operates like a vacuum cleaner. Users drop a coin into a slot, which starts the machinery working. The hand nozzle fixture, rubbed lightly over the surface, picks up all dirt particles from the garment.

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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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Wacky Hollywood even makes an entertainment feature of an oil well pump, ordinarily an ugly but practical tool. It’s at a children’s park and they love it, for as it goes up and clown it wiggles its ears and opens its mouth— and pumps 75 barrels of oil every day, too.

NEW in SCIENCE

Ping-Pong Gun fires balls noisily at a terrific rate of speed by using air pressure. Newell Mfg. Company, Lowell, Mich.

82 Washes did this to milady’s dress. Ordinary starch was used on left side while new Perma Starch was used on right, doubling life of cotton. U. S. Rubber Co.. N. Y. C.
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Goat’s Milk Fudge

WHEN E. D. DeWitt retired to Florida in 1948, he had “no intention of going into business. He liked goat’s milk so he bought three Nubian nannies. One day, just for the heckuvit, he made some fudge from the milk. It tasted good, so he put up a sign, advertising it. Now tourists buy it up as fast as he makes it.