Jeepers! The lowly jeep has been glamorized in the best Hollywood tradition. The boys overseas would have to look twice before they recognized it. This gives you an idea of what can be done with the present car-of-all-work of G.I. Joe when it is painted and generally fixed up. Jeeps are going on sale now to the public. The girl on the hood? She comes under the heading of Special Accessories—which you have to supply yourself.

Zig-Zagging Target Tests Gunners’ Skill

THE Field Artillery, U. S. Army, has long experienced difficulty in obtaining practice against fast-moving targets. To meet this need, the Artillery Corps has recently perfected a target which can be towed behind a rapidly-moving automobile and yet zig-zag across the landscape like a drunken jackrabbit.
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The Fuel-Injection CORVETTE

Chevy leads the way with a fuel injection system that may enable this buggy to beat the Grand Prix record of 170 mph, says Tom, By Tom McCahill IN 1920, when a be-mustached gentleman named Gaston Chevrolet won the Indianapolis classic at the astounding speed of 88 mph, he was a hero’s hero and about as swashbuckling a character as you would be apt to meet at a luncheon for the late Jean LaFitte. Later on, Gaston zigged when he should have zagged and they buried him that November. Somehow I can’t help wondering how Gaston would have reacted if he could get a look-see at his namesake as we know it today. Read the rest of this entry »

Jap Train Will Do 450 mph (They Say!)

PROFESSOR Hisanojo Ozawa of Japan has designed a radically new type of train that he claims will do 450 mph, whizzing by jet propulsion between upper and lower rollers. Recently he tested a model, which did a modest 25 mph but functioned perfectly as a mechanically guided missile. A problem: how do you get around curves? Professor Ozawa has the answer: curve lines of no less than 2.48 miles radius. •

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Snowshoes, Jelly Beans and Rat Bait Cheese

YOU can buy anything from a buggy whip to a bustle at the Old Country Store, South Sudbury, Mass. Wilfred Allen, originator and proprietor of the old-time emporium, has it packed to the rafters with relics that would have made your great great grandpa do a jig of joy. Modern items are also sold because Allen has to balance the budget, but it is the antique furnishings that give his shop its unique charm and flavor of days gone by.

Thomas Foster’s School By Mail

By Alfred Lief

COAL mine accidents in the 1880’s prompted a Pennsylvania editor, Thomas Jefferson Foster, to crusade for safety laws. In his paper he ran question -and-answer columns for miners which proved so popular he later compiled them into a free handbook. But it seemed to him that the message he had to tell should be conveyed to his readers in a more systematic way. Read the rest of this entry »

No other deodorant now asks women to Shave First!

Actual skin tests prove YODORA SO “KIND” TO SENSITIVE SKIN we can make this bold statement

FIRST . . . shave under arms. (For faultless grooming — ask your druggist for Yodora shaving booklet.)

THEN . . . apply Yodora immediately with complete confidence* Read the rest of this entry »

Diminutive “Super-Ear” for Deaf

A HIGHLY sensitive detector of sound known as the “Super-ear,” a device which operates on a new and unique principle, has recently been put on the market for the relief of deafness. The “Super-ear,” one method of the use of which is shown in the photo at the left, is adaptable for use in any position. It can even be concealed in the palm of the hand, and attracts little attention. It operates by compressing the received vibrations of sound into a series of successively smaller chambers, thus securing greater intensity.

$2 in 1949 dollars ($17.85 in 2008 dollars) for 30 soft core pictures. That’s pretty damn expensive. Technology sure has made porn cheaper.

PHOTO COLLECTORS

I HAVE HUNDREDS of GIRLIE PHOTOS! Some very good, others not worth the paper they’re printed on. I have selected 30 ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPHS that I believe are the best ever offered for sale. ALL 5 SETS, 6 POSES TO A SET, ONLY $2.

YOU BE THE JUDGE! PRINT NAME & ADDRESS. ORDER WILL BE SENT 1st CLASS.

50c FOR A SAMPLE SET 2 SETS $1 GEM FOTOS, Box 375-J, Dayton, Ohio

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DOWN GOES PICCARD!

Yea, he’ll go down four miles BUT… will he come back up?

THE African sun slants its dawn rays across the Gulf of Guinea. From the deck of a ship a huge crane swings out over the water. Slowly it descends and with scarcely a ripple deposits the amazing thing on the ocean’s face.

Inside the Thing a little man with wide metal-rimmed glasses orders crisply: “Cut the ropes,” and the world’s strangest submarine, its only contact severed, begins it’s descent into the world of endless night in the ocean’s depths. Read the rest of this entry »

Photo Wallpaper
THROW out that wallpaper! Away with plaster! Your home may now have magnificent new walls—walls covered seemingly with rare and beautiful materials such as hare-wood, woven rattan, marble, even snakeskin—all practically indistinguishable from the real thing.

The Di-Noc Company of Cleveland makes it possible. Using a record-sized camera they take color shots of the material to be reproduced, etch the exposures so obtained on copper plates, and use the plates for printing by the gravure process on an extremely thin paperbacked film. Film with backing is transferred in large areas to any flat surface and the backing stripped away.

Wow.

Imagine! Your Christmas Greeting Inside a Chinese Fortune Cooky!

Your Friends will be Amazed and Delighted When They Open this Gay Attractive Package And See Your Personalized Greeting

Think of it! Just picture this scene, taking place in each of your friends’ homes!

Approximately one or two weeks before Christmas this year, your friends’ doorbell rings! There, in the hands of their postman, along with the usual run of ordinary Christmas cards, is something completely different — a small, cardboard Christmas container, with their name and address on the front, but with no other identification! Read the rest of this entry »