.“Here’s to our Golden Wedding”
…AND THE MELLOWNESS THAT GROWS AND GROWS WITH YEARS
DELICIOUSNESS … in that one word you will find the answer to “Why is America choosing Golden Wedding to celebrate with today?” The average age of Golden Wedding is 4 years old.
.MILLIONS SPENT ON RAILROAD STATIONS
By SAMUEL O. DUNN
Western Editorial Manager. Railroad Age Gazette
THE typical American railroad passenger station of the past has been a building so dingy, so ugly and so ill-arranged that travelers wished to see as little of it as practicable and to get through it as quickly as possible.
.UNSUSPECTED POWER
The Mysterious Influence In The Air You Breathe!
The SOUL OF THE UNIVERSE is in the air you breathe. Deposited in your blood—with each inhalation you take—is the intelligence that directs the course of the planets through the misty reaches of space, and the strange phenomenon of life itself.
.BAD PARK BEARS GET TAKEN FOR A RIDE
Unruly bears are taken for a ride at the Yosemite National Park. If Bruin becomes troublesome, a novel “patrol wagon” appears, in the shape of a large section of corrugated pipe sealed at one end and fitted with a trapdoor.
.Home Conveniences THAT SAVE TIME
SELF-OPENING TABLE
Pressing a button, set in the side of this bridge table, automatically opens all four of the legs at once.ALL-METAL LAUNDRY CHUTE. A door in wall or floor of the bathroom opens to this laundry chute down which soiled clothes slide to a container in the basement. Photo at right shows arrangement of chute in the basement where clothes are removed.
.What Every Farmer Should Know About Taking Care of Farm Animals
The Most Popular Veterinary Guide Ever Printed
This practical and helpful VETERINARY GUIDE FOR FARMERS prepares the farmer to perform many routine veterinary tasks—provides quick information that can often save the life of an animal—prevents disease in herds— saves money on the farm in a hundred different ways.
.What’s New in AVIATION
P-51 GETS A BOOST. When the Army recently experimented on a Mustang fighter (above), it installed two ram-let engines on its wing tips. The jets don’t start working until the P-51 hits 350 m.p.h.
.“Petrified Lightning” Is Formed by Catching Man-Made Bolts in Sand
By CATCHING bolts of artificial lightning in a pail of sand, Westinghouse engineers duplicate one of nature’s rarest phenomena.
.Smiling Dan The High-Diving Man
CAN you manipulate Diving Dan so that he will hit directly in the center of the tub when he does his spectacular high dive? There is fun for youngsters and amusement even for oldsters in this novel toy, which requires skill to operate with the greatest degree of success.
.PITY THE POOR PHOTOGRAPHER
The lens-hawks of the press risk life and limb to bring you those front-page pictures .
REPORTS FROM the Korean war zone of the reporters and press photographers killed or wounded in action frame as no surprise to anyone who has followed the remarkable development of on-the-spot journalism in the past twenty years.
