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rice cleans carbon RICE is moving out of the kitchen and into the garage. Oldsmobile has developed a new device, the Head-On Carbon Blaster, which uses rice under air pressure to clean engine combustion chambers through their spark-plug openings. Ten to 20 pounds of specially ...

PUTTING ON THE DOG IT’S said that every dog has his day. Bobbie, an upper-crust Great Dane, really has it and is he barking it up! His master, Alden J. Senegal of Los Angeles, built Bobbie a plush ranch-style doghouse which has a TV antenna, chimney, doorbell, real doggy wallpaper, ...

do you know this man? Here’s his dossier: Graduate Engineer, in his thirties. Lost in a large engineering group. Married, has good paying job but no future. Could go far with right opportunity for creative engineering work. If you know this man, tell him to communicate with J. ...

OLD WATER PIPE MADE OF WOOD THIS relic of bygone days in Chicago was recently unearthed when workmen digging the excavation for a power plant came across a length of wood pipe. Made of logs drilled through the center and reinforced by iron bands, the bore was lined with copper sheeting ...

PLASTIC HOME HERE is the “Plexiglas Dream Suite,” designed to show peace-time uses for the clear plastic which has done such an efficient job decorating the noses and turrets of our fighting planes. The rooms are small in size for efficient air conditioning, but do away with ...

“You know, for kids!” CHECKERBOARD COMBINED WITH CIGARETTE CASE THE NOVEL cigarette case shown below contains not only smoking materials, but also a complete checkerboard and men. The white and black pieces are small pegs which fit into holes in the squares to prevent them ...

A PENNY’S WORTH A penny’s not a lot of money, but you’ll be surprised at how much of some things it will buy. A penny buys 20 pages of big city newspaper. providing several hours of reading material. A penny’s worth of gas will drive a two-ton automobile with ...

Midget Streamliner goes record hunting. The Cooper 500-cc. racing car has gone to Paris to set some new times for the speed demons to shoot at. John Cooper admires his baby, left. Open hood, right, reveals driver Bill Aston behind the wheel. No tags for this post.

view additional pages Movies that Leap From the Screen! By WESTON FARMER A POOR boy from Budapest, who in his early childhood learned about the functions of the human eye in his struggle against defective vision, has invented a system whereby stereoscopic movies may be projected upon ...

Nile Hilton THE NEWEST HOTEL IN CAIRO … MODERN AS A TWA JETSTREAM* CAIRO— Another Hilton Hotel! New and beautiful as the mighty TWA JETSTREAM, longest-range airliner in the world today. The magnificent, 400-room Nile Hilton, on the banks of the majestic Nile, overlooks the ...

INVENTIONS WANTED! FISH FOOD in time-release capsules that would dissolve over several days or weeks. Philip F. Sidotti, Glassboro. N. J. QUARTER-IN.-WIDE safety razor lor a professional-looking home trim around the ears. George Smith. Chicago, Ill. ICE CREAM freezer that could be ...

Can it be “tommyrot” when such people advocate Pelmanism? Here are only a few of many famous men and women who advocate Pelmanism, and who use its principles themselves. With this testimony before you, can you doubt that it will benefit you ? Find out what Pelmanism has ...

The list of perfect numbers currently stands at 49 entries. view additional pages Perfect Numbers Six is such a number: it is the sum of all numbers that divide it except itself. In 2,000 years 12 perfect numbers were found; now a computer has discovered five more by Constance Reid ...

That’s a very interestingly placed new line. BLOW YOURSELF UP IN B&W OR COLOR Full color posters from any color photo or slide. Great gift, or gag. or room decoration. 1-1/2 x 2 Ft.-$9.95 1×1-1/2 Ft.-$7.95,2×3Ft.-$14.95 B&W POSTERS from any b&w or ...

It’s interesting that they don’t mention why he has RUR painted on his chest. Or do you think it is because the inventors’ names are Richards and Reffell? view additional pages Aluminum Man Startles London He talks, walks, stands, sits down, rolls his eyes and waves ...

70-YEAR OLD TOURIST CROSSES U. S. ON BICYCLE AN ORDINARY bicycle with a special baggage support above the front wheel is the equipment used by M. C. Plummer of Portland, Maine, in touring the United States. Mr. Plummer is 70 years old but he covers from 50 to 150 miles every day on his ...

view additional pages GUN TRADERS’ SUPERMARKET You can get anything from a blunderbuss to a burp gun at this busy swap session. ANY exhibition of guns, old or new, has a fascination for men of all sorts, from serious shooters and collectors to Walter Mittys who have never ...

Sixty billion vibrations per second A great new giant of communications—a waveguide system for carrying hundreds of thousands of voices at once, as well as television programs —is being investigated at Bell Telephone Laboratories. Such a revolutionary system calls for frequencies much ...

New Machine Makes 600 Shoes in Eight Hours SIX HUNDRED pairs of shoes in eight hour is the record set by the new shoe manufacturing machine recently exhibited at the Leather Fair in London, shown in the photo below. It resembles a gigantic wheel, the spokes of which contain the ...

Mi-stoppers BIG TIME DISPLAY in Frankfurt Germany, prompted this pretty Fraulein’s double-take. Sure enough, all of the huge wristwatches keep accurate time. Exhibit was part of a watch and jewelry fair. GOVERNOR GETS THE BIRD. Kentucky governor, Lawrence Wetherby. delighted ...