Electronic Brains Save Thousands of Hours of Labor
John Gortte reports on the Reeves Electronic Analog Computer Reac developed for navy use. Priced from 17000 to 35000 dollars, it reduces problem solving time by about 95 percent, simulates aircraft and engine performance, and prints results instantly on plotting boards.
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Navy
Harry D. Belock
New York Laboratories
Reeves Instrument Corporation
Reeves Electronic
Belock
Reac
Reno
Latest fashion guitar look sparks cowboy heroine style
A novelty column parodies trends in fashion and science. It mentions a 235 pound mill worker winning the Illinois crocheting championship and jokes about hay fever terms and research on ants. The piece notes safety claims, racing greyhounds, Jupiter proximity, and a Oregon flagpole stunt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mdlinois
Canadian Restaurants Face Mixed Guest Reviews
Calgary report shows 25 percent of American travelers rate Canadian eateries fair or worse. Toronto’s Mrs. F G Montgomery urges promoting Canadian apple pie with cheese as a national favorite while calling for simpler menus and better bread and fruit availability. Dr George Worthington of Vancouver urges streamlined menus and less greasy gravy.
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Calgary
Canadian Restaurant Association
F. G. Montgomery
Toronto
Canadian Tourist Association
George Worthington
Vancouver
Tipster's confident call on horse race backfires
A tipster loudly boasts before a race shouting tips on Broad Bean Water Tap Dusty Carpet and Loose Button. No one answers his bets as the crowd awaits the outcome and the tipster doubles down claiming a sure win for Loose Button.
Very Simple Plan
Mrs Smith asks how her son stays neatly dressed. Mrs Jones says she sews lace edging around the shirt bottoms to keep them tucked in.
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Mrs. Smith
Mrs. Jones
Tallest Man Nine Feet And Still Growing
Ted Evans of Englefield Green England stands nine feet four inches at twenty six, claiming six more inches since January. He faces job and lodging limits due to height, shoe costs of sixty dollars a pair, and travel inconveniences from airports and trains. Doctors predicted eight feet but he keeps growing. a buoyant note ends with a distant underwater bell at 1200 feet.
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Englefield Green
England
Ted Evans
Evans
Fall application of Sodium TCA kills grass on vacant plots
Dow Chemical of Canada.Manager R M Ferguson suggests fall spraying or dry spreading of 50 pounds per acre before or after plowing to control grasses on new garden plots. He says the chemical has little carryover to spring and a typical lot needs about ten pounds. Sodium TCA 90 percent is sold in ten pound cans.
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R. M. Ferguson
Dow Chemical of Canada, Limited
Toronto
Ferguson
Dow
Stamp Corner: Stamps as Teaching Aids Grow in Schools
With the new school year teachers increasingly use postage stamps to teach history geography and literature. Stamp clubs form in classrooms as students trade stamps and learn about countries maps flags and notable people. Canada plans a fur trade stamp on Oct 2 showing an Indian woman drying beaver skins. collectors invited to contact Mr Pratt Kuhn in Toronto for sales or exchanges.
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Canada
Pratt Kuhn
Wellington St. W
Toronto 1
Ont
Spiritual Reserves in Adversity and Rest in the Lord
A reflection on enduring misfortune through spiritual reserves and prayer inspired by Claire Wallace's hip injury. The author urges faith to lie down in green pastures, citing Psalm 23 and the need to rest in God during trials, with examples from the hospital and personal anecdotes.
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Claire Wallace
Australia
Claire
Women's Press Club
Jane
Hope
Queen St. W
Peterborough
French Mothers Keep Close Eye On Their Daughters
Leslie Caron says French girls are not as liberated as Americans imagine. She notes strict French parenting, late lipstick and dating rules, and modest dress norms, contrasting with American youth styles. She also remarks French bathing suits are unremarkable to locals, likening exposed legs to shocking sights to outsiders. Coronary thrombosis claims 200,000 American lives annually.
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Leslie Caron
Republic of France
Hollywood
Mile. Caron
Paris
America
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John Gortte
CPC
Central Press
Jupiter
Oregon
Indiana
Trral Press
Hans Gebhard
Gebhard
James Montagnes
Alden C. Johnson
Mexico
Argentina
Jose de San Martin
Colombia
Universal Postal Union
Hungary
Belgium
M. Jane Scott
Globe and Mail
North Pole
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