He’s Forever Blowing Bubbles
Nat Fisher’s fluid for forming sudsy spheres may be the start of a $1,000,000 business.
By Bob Willett
BUBBLES FISHER is no strip-tease dancer as the name may imply—he is Nat Fisher of Hollywood, Calif., who says there are three things that will never die: marbles, tops and bubbles.
Most Americans are familiar with Fisher’s Billion-Bubble machines which he ‘began manufacturing nine years ago. A standard attention-getter at fairs, conventions, theaters and department stores, Nat’s bubbles have also become an important part of ice show, circus, nightclub and TV performances and his miniature plastic bubble-making machines are sold in novelty stores throughout the nation.
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Because there is nothing a woman likes more than a man who blows cigar smoke in her ear.
No woman ever says no to Winchester.
Take a puff. Blow in her ear. And she’ll follow you anywhere. Because one whiff of Winchesters sexy aroma tells her everything she ever wanted to know about you. But was afraid to ask. It tells her you’re a man, but a man of taste. A taste for mildness. Lightness. She takes a puff. Winchesters filtered smoothness tells her its not a cigarette. Not just another little cigar. It’s a whole ‘nother smoke. And she knows that you know: where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
Winchester. It’s a whole ‘nother smoke.
1973 R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
Pilot Your Own Plane and Never Crash!
NOVICES can pilot airplanes without any training on a new amusement park device. The untrained pilot can dive, climb, and hank at will.
He is limited, however, to a small circular course by the arms of the machine which holds several planes. The airplanes are standard ships and are controlled by regulation “joy sticks.” Each plane is run by its own three horsepower motor.
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Science in Pictures
Little Racer with a 5-hp engine is being groomed for a British attempt on the record of 106 mph, for cars up to 500-c.c. piston displacement, now held by Italy. Colonel “Goldie” Gardner, standing alongside, thinks his car may exceed 120.
Bubble-Top of Plexiglas is the latest wrinkle for Ford and Mercury convertibles. It gives all-around visibility, lots of light and extra protection against bad weather. No privacy, though! Lifts on and off, and can be attached in a few minutes.
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What will Your Next Car Look Like?
by Jay Earle Miller
The automobile industry is on the verge of a revolution in design which will make tomorrow’s cars radically different from the present models. Amazing new trends in automotive engineering, affecting every American who owns a car, are fascinatingly set forth in this prophetic article.
THE automobile world—after eight or ten years of quiet and orderly development —is on the threshold of a period of radical change and improvement.
That, in a sentence, is the big news on the eve of the 1931 automobile shows.
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An OCEAN LINER Built Like a Zeppelin
Following the streamline form of a Zeppelin, a new ocean liner, designed by a German inventor, gives promise of reducing by one-half the time required for an ocean crossing.
WILL the ocean liner of the future take advantage of the lessons learned by airship engineers and pattern its design after the streamlined Graf Zeppelin, Los Angeles, R-100, and other famous lighter-than-air craft?
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Latest in Firearms—a Rifle That Shoots With Liquid Gas
NO ONE could believe that guns would ever fire gas, but such a thing has come to pass. That, strictly speaking, is more truth than poetry. For visitors to the Outdoor Show held recently in Chicago were treated to the spectacle of a recently invented gun firing 40,000 rounds of shot supplied from a tank of carbonic gas showing 50 pounds pressure.
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Simple Things Complicated in Joe Cook Comedy
THE unemployment problem in this country would be quickly solved if all inventors would follow in the footsteps of Joe Cook, for that inimitable comedian of the stage and screen seems to have a perfect genius for complicating the simple things of life and employing nine men where but two were used before.
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The Great Wall of China to be Motor Highway
The plans of the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China for converting the great wall into a major motor highway are revealed to the world for the first time in this exclusive story.
THE Great Wall of China, long considered one of the most remarkable engineering feats in the world, may soon become one of the greatest and most unusual motor highways on earth if the plans of the Nationalist government are carried through.
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