I just like the word “Shellubrication”
.Faster Service is the idea behind this new streamlined service station, designed by Shell after surveying dealers and the public. The pump is scaled down to 54″ high, about two feet lower than the usual pump, so as not to obstruct customers’ view of display room. Sales recording device is at driver’s eye level. Hose is 18 feet long. Service room is designed for complete lubrication job by operator without his taking more than 6 steps from the car.
Alrighty then.
.Tube and Tears combine to produce this picture of progress and sorrow. The tube is the world’s most powerful radio tube, designed primarily for broadcasts directed toward specific points, so-called “beam transmissions.” Tears are supplied by 3-year-old Barry Greenwood, whose father is shop steward at the Federal Telephone and Radio plant, Clifton, N. J., where the tube was manufactured.
.Snap Happy Camera
Something new in flash cameras—takes 35-mm. photos at 1-25,000 see.
IMAGINE a camera so fast, so accurate, so automatic in operation that with it any novice can take pictures of spot news events and fast action that are as good as those of any professional!
I don’t know of any chemically propelled submarines that have ever been deployed, but the Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine, was completed about five years after this was published. The author is correct that Ballistic Missile Submarines did become a huge part of our strategic deterrent during the cold war.
.Jet Sub Fires Underwater Rockets
Submarines can win a war, top military men say! So here’s the dope on our race for undersea supremacy.
By Frank Tinsley
THE lowly pig-boat of yesterday has become the capital ship of tomorrow! An American jet submarine, firing underwater rockets, might tilt the balance between victory and defeat in the event of a third world war.
.Why be an ABECEDARIAN*
*Webster says it’s a tyro, a beginner, a novice, i.e., one who hasn’t read Hodgman’s 1946 Handy Book of Sportsmen’s Secrets—the latest, biggest issue, sparkling with 168 pages of authentic, little known outdoor tricks— bulging with facts, crowded With dope on how to cram your creel and garnish your game bag.
.Phonograph-Aquarium
Favorite tunes and tropical fish can be enjoyed at the same time when you build this novel combination unit.
By Colin J. Creitz
YOU’LL hear many pleasing comments from friends and neighbors when you invite them over to see this unusual looking phonograph-aquarium with its rattan trim, Formica paneled doors, and cabinet covered with lauhala cloth.
.“THEM DAYS ARE GONE FOREVER!”
Yep, there was a time when you could buy a sirloin steak for fifteen cents!
DEARIE, if you remember when a steak smothered with onions cost you a fast fifteen cents, when horses pulled fire engines and women laced themselves into ulcer-making corsets, then you’re much older than we are—hut not by much!
.Garden Dirigibles Eclipse Old Type of Chimney Sweep
DAYS of the old chimney sweep who wormed his way up or down a grimy flue are fast waning. This giant vacuum cleaner, shown at left, is one of the reasons why. It takes soot from the furnace, pipes and chimney by suction.
After it has finished its cleaning, the air is permitted to escape and the bag fastened to the truck and carted off to the next job. It carries the dirt away with it.
.THE MYSTERY OF TEMPERATURE
By Dr. Charles Floyd Burrows
WHAT is a person’s normal temperature?—is a question often asked of every physician.
When the answer 98.6° F. is given to the query, very few people understand the physiological significance of this fact, or how a degree of systemic heat is maintained during health, within such narrow limits, that their bodies have an even temperature the coldest day in winter or the hottest day in summer with an exactness of adjustment that is not obtainable in warming or cooling their homes with the most up-to-date heating and refrigerating apparatus.
I want to see a parrot opera. Modern parrots seem to prefer dubstep or K-Pop.
.Phonograph Records Teach Parrots to Talk in One Week
PETER JENSEN, a veteran bird trainer at the Luna Park zoo, Los Angeles, has simplified the task of teaching parrots to talk.
