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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January/February 1959 Through January/February 1960
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Rate increase approval; explansion plans for 1959, including new purchasing, warehousing and repair centre to be built at Manitoba Street and Southeast Marine Drive in Vancouver; Operator Distance Dialing Nears Reality; B.C.'s Biggest Television Events in 1958 as covered by mobile television links, including the Ripple Rock blast, the visit of H.R.H. Princess Margaret, and the Grey Cup; Changes to Sales Organization; Automating Accounting; Expanding the Personnel Department; Conversion of manual systems to dial operation; Conversion of Glenburn to Cypress; New Long Distance Route to Kamloops; Dial phones come to Sidney, Keating and James Island; Pension Plan Personalized; Adoption of Irregular Base Rate Areas; Closing of two historic switchboards in Victoria and Vancouver; Teletype Sale Made to East Asiatic; R.W.J. Angus becomes new General Commercial Manager; The Birth of N.P.A. 604 (the 604 area code); High cost of workplace accidents; Long Distance Anniversary greetings to a New Westminster Rotary Club from around the Western Hemisphere; Removal of high-wire span that linked Agassiz and Chilliwack since 1910 (6 pnotos); Conversion jobs sparked romances; Maintenance men to match our mountains; The visit of the queen (14 photos); "Follow Me" - a child's-eye view of the telephone company through the medium of C.B.C. television; Vancouver General Hospital (3 photos); Electronic 'Detectives' Guard Microwave; The FW-1 intertoll switching installation in the William Farrell Building - the brain and heart of toll; Logging by Radio - New Switchboard serves radiotelephone subscribers; Laying cable in the Pitt River (2 photos); Opening of new headquarters in 700 block of Seymour Street in Vancouver (3 photos); A new approach to serving the public in the new addition; Activation of a new radiotelephone long distance system through the Cariboo - illustrated; Traffic Signs for Toll; New Woodland Central Office serves Whalley (photos); Phone fashion; Network Television reaches the Interior; 500,000th telephone installed; Night move of revenue accounting to 555 Seymour (photos); Terrace phones now automatic (photos); Traffic, Staff Metering - Instantly; Service at New Denver is Personalized; The Heave-Ho Boys - name your antenna and they'll put it up! (with great photos); new building for Gibsons, Sechelt; Kamloops Editorial salutes operators; Transmission Levesl - an FW-1 Problem; Plans for 1960, including completion of Burnaby centre; Graph of telephone growth in B.C. since 1880; History of the Alma Central Office; The Happy Islanders on Calvert, Trutch and Swindle Islands; Machines take over in the Accounting Field; Rough weather at Newcastle Ridge; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight and square. Marbled endpapers. Name of E.P. LaBelle stamped on bottom edge of text. A photo and announcement re: Mr. Labelle is found in the July/August 1959 issue. Book
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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January/February 1945 Through November/December1946
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: awarding of Distinguished Flying Cross to Flt.-Lieut. Gordon Smith; Excellent photo of Vancouver radiotelephone operators at work; Long Distance Load in '44 set new record - statistics; Radiotelephone saves 3 lives when tug sinks; Annie Gillman - never late for work in 38 years as operator; Telephone Trouble - by Francis Aldham of the Vancouver Daily Province; Forty Miles of Telephone Bills - reprinted from the December 1944 issue of Western Business and Industry; Harold Morse retires; A few lines from the front lines - portions of letters from telphone employees on active service; Large black and white reproduction of B.C. Tel. Victory Bond advertisement featuring Winston Churchill; Expansion Programme will fall short of needs - with drawing of new central office building at Tenth Ave. and Yew St.; Digits control names of new Central Offices; Report shows phone situation still serious - no prospect of relief in near future; Al Miller retires after 36 years of service; Popular chief operator, Edna Green, resigns; Farewell to Don (Mac) McAuley; Photo of the "Kamloops Kid" - Dave Wilkie; Photos of Sports Starlets; A Telephone Man in the Navy - a lengthy letter to the editor from Elect. Lieut. N.J. Dunlop, R.C.N.V.R.; Article - Two Million Wait for Phones in North America, and relevant B.C. Tel advertisement; Cover photo of U.S. Army Bronze Star recipient Staff Sgt. Robert Creech; Photos of the three Stephan sisters who are operators; Photo of war shortage billboard; Voices with smiles - article from the Vancouver Daily Province by Gordon McCallum; Article - $64 question in the telephone business; Plagued by Shortages - article from the National War Finance Committee; article and photo - Pup Flies Atlantic with Flt. Lt. Gordon Heselton; Article on Robert Garnett Tatlow, Vancouver Pioneer; B.C.'s First Emergency Phone Call - Pants torn by Dog; Construction photos of 'Cedar'; War's End Brings Record Long Distance Load; Heading Back to Normal - but still a long way to go; Death removes Ernest F. Helliwell; Radiotelephone service to the rescue; Photo of phone installer Charlie McAndrew, and the billboard which used the photo; Photos of North Vancouver staff and facilities; Secret of wartime 'what-is-it' building on Seymour finally revealed - photos and two-page article; 5 excellent pages of photos and article on the building of the Pacific Communications System, 'One of our Biggest War Jobs'; Daisy Bonde retires; Excellent photo of B.C. Telephone's 'Sky Riders', dangling 350 feet in the air over Rock Creek Canyon; 3 more billboard photos; We are establishing an F.M. Radio Network; We subscribed nearly $2,000,000 to the war effort; Farewell to Miss Mary Lloyd, Ernest Cole and William Silver; Many photos of employees knitting; Trail operators at work; Eighteen Thousand Calls a day - article; New record for telephone calls in 1945; Difficulties of supply situation again stressed in telephone company's annual report; Charlie McAndrew has installed 40,000 photos; Cupid is main cause of our traffic problems - article; Only photo available of Vancouver's first telephone exchange, established in 1885 in Tilley's book store, on the east side of Carrall St.; PNE float; Alma open house; Hastings Hay Ride; Better phone service to central B.C. points Book
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Canadian Antiques Collector - October 1970, Vol. 5, No. 9
Features: Manoir Richelieu Collection of Canadiana; Bristol Blue Glass; Tunbridge Ware; Early Canadian Hair Work; Chinese Snuff Bottles; Edward John Russell - Marine Artist 1832-1906; Nailsea Glass. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Canadian Aviation Magazine, February 1947 *Cover Photo on Deck of Canadian Aircraft Carrier H.M.C.S. Warrior*
94 pages. Features: Flight Safety (first of a series); Our Navy's Wings - The First of Two Aircraft Carriers Join Canada's Fleet; Report from Ottawa; U.S. Navy orders Jet Fighters - the XFJ-1 and XF6U-1; Let's Learn to Fly - Taxiing and Control During Takeoff; London Letter; Supersonic Quest; Western Skylines; The Case for Community Airports; Interior Decoration of Aircraft - Designing for Passengers; Sperry Gyropilot - Electronic Approach works with "George"; Northrop Pioneer - trimotor transport; Photo of the XC-99 under construction; and more. Many pages of great ads including one for Kashower Air Service Ltd. of Oshawa plus a Fairey ad featuring a photo of Canada's first aircraft carrier, the H.M.C.S. Warrior. Small faint ink stamp to front cover and ad on first page. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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Canadian Collector Magazine - November/December 1979, Vol. 14 No. 6 - Canadian Georgian Furniture
Features: Canadian Georgian Furniture; 19th Century Egyptian Inspired Decoration; Mennonite Dolls and Costumes; Canadian Paperweights; Portrait Sleuthing - researching the background of the painter and subject; Clay Smoking Pipes from the King's Navy Yard, Amherstberg, Ontario. Clean, sound copy. Book
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Canadian Forces Sentinel 1976/1, Volume 12, Number 1
30 pages. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Features: Experience Talks, by Rear-Admiral A.L. Collier; New Life for an Old Turkey - RCN Avenger on display; Polar Dip - Navy Divers in the North; The Salvation Army - with CF Europe; Elizabeth - German Lady with 'Sally Ann"; A Wartime RCAF Photographer Remembers - Ken Coleman. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
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Die Deutsche Wehrmacht Im 2.Weltkrieg - Marine 5 Tatsachenberichte - Nr. Q 104
Mit vielen illustrationen und fotos. Book
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Die Deutsche Wehrmacht Im 2.Weltkrieg - Marine 5 Tatsachenberichte - Nr. Q 105
Mit vielen illustrationen und fotos. Book
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Diver Magazine: 8 Issues from 1993
Includes the following 8 issues from 1993: February, March, April, May, June, August, November, December. Includes the following features: Hakai Passage; Giant Nudibranch; Roatan and Utila; Bay Islands 'Aggressor'; Wreck of the Bohemian; Cayman Brac; Joy of Snorkelling; St. Lawrence Belugas; Tahiti - the rangiroa Atoll; Hawaiian Humpbacks; Tobermory in the Summer; Grand Cayman Island; Nakwakto Rapids; Norway Wrecks; Deep Divers; Pacific Octopus; Barkley Sound's Ten Best; Artificial Reefs in Ontario; Belize Holiday; Cuba; Saba; Isleworth; Black Sea Visit; Sidney, B.C.; San Juan Islands; Photobiology; Battle of the 'Atlantic'; Costa Rica; Macrophotography - getting up close; Neah Bay, Washington; Discovery Passage, B.C.; Bonaire; Aruba and Curacao; 'Touch the Sea'; Cozumel; Pirate's Treasure in Cayman; Inflatables; Nudibranchs; New York Cops; Queen Charlotte Islands; Similan Islands, Thailand; Philippines - Balicasag; Hypothermia; Marine Parks; Halifax Harbour; Ceolacanth cycles; Jurassic Seas; Talking Underwater; Palau, Vanuatu, Best of the Great Barrier; Sambro Island, Nova Scotia; Palm Beach, Florida; Mystery Wreck in Georgian Bay; Sumbarines Ahoy!; Clayoquot Sound, Hotsprings Cove; 'Shoal Searcher'; Bahamas. Clean with moderate wear. Quality copies. Book
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Equinox - The Magazine of Canadian Discovery: January/February 1983: Kelp Beds
Features: Fires of Thunder - Quebec's Project of the Century Roars over the Lands and Lives of the Cree; Marine Dominoes - Scientists piece together the complex ecological puzzles of the once great kelp beds; Everest - The Expedition Chronicle of Canadians facing Mountaineering's Crowning Challenge; Canadian Mount Everest Expedition 1982 - The Team. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Explorer's Journal, September 1978
Features: The Aviaries of Edward Marshall Boehm; Nomads of the Gabra - wanderers of the wasteland; Photogrammetry Breakthrough - formulas bring honors to an amateur, John P. Snyder; The Space Oblique Mercator Projection; Marine fish in a Freshwater Lake - the enigma of Lake Nicaragua; Photos of rock carvings by Harrison Forman; Sonic Exploration for Subterranean Resources - seismic reflections probe the earth; Ankh linked to Supernova - ancient Egyptian symbol records astronomical event; The Wrangel Island Affair - Vilhalmur Stefansson's expedition; Pampas, Gulls and Gauchos - life on the Argentine Plain. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Explorer's Journal, September 1979
Features: Fiery Vesuvius; The Peregrine Falcon's Return; Marine Chart Revisions Urged; In the Wake of Typhoon Pamela - survey of the effect on the Guan Reefs; Offshore Migration of Land Birds - Weather Fronts assist long-distance fliights; Meteors; Underwater Archeology - Photogrammetry of artifacts near Bimini; Native Iron in Western Greenland - discovery and interpreation; Semiotics; St. Lucia Expedition - to collect and photograph wildlife. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Explorer's Journal, September 1980
Features: South Nahanni River Valley Expedition - a canoe-and-climb journey in Canada's Northwest Territories; Exploration of Today's World; Martin and Osa Johnson - exploration was their way of life; Arnold Hauerslev-Haverlee - an unorthodox explorer; Continued Exploration of Venus; Medical Detective in Africa - solution of an explosive medical mystery in Mali; Meteorites and Man-made Satellites - when they fall to earth; Observing Marine Mammals in Alaska - students gain field experience; Goal - to Penetrate Tibet - a hazardous 19th century attempt - Mr. T.T. Cooper. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Leica Fotografie International Magazine (English), 1 / 1989 - Hans Siwik / Fee Schlapper / Jurgen Winkler
48 pages. Text in English. Features: Hans Siwik - the puppet theatre Obraszow; Fee Schlapper - portraits in the course of time; Photography - 150 years old; Jurgen Winkler - mountain landscapes; Kaiser's Toptable; Hansjurgen Zobel - in the zoo; Leica Focometer 2 - special applications; Ruth & Heinz Kloss - Andalusia; Obraszow's Puppets - Marina Saslawskaja; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
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Maclean's Magazine, August 1, 1943 *INSIDE GERMANY*
52 pages. Features: Colour Sunkist orange juice ad inside front cover; Fairchild Engine and Airplain Corporation ad - 'From Plans to Planes at Wartime Speed; End of Steel - Dawson Creek, B.C. is a hundred boom towns rolled into one, a stampede, a bedlam of activity... on the road to Tokyo - with photos; Movie Boom - war has brought Canadian movie theatres their greatest boom - 180 million customers a year; Story - Sockeye in the River, by Clive Grierson Cornish; Navy Type - Trent Frayne writes about life aboard a Canadian minesweeper - with photos; Lightning - article by William B. Crist; Inside Germany, by Alfred Kantorowicz - article with photos; Story - The Touch of a Vanished Hand, by Laurence Wilson; Sky Troops, by Ronald A. Keith - Canadians who will soon be dropping into Hitler's back yard - with photos; RCAF recruiting ad for women; Nice colour ads for Nabisco Shredded Wheat and Pepsi-Cola (in the old bottle style!); Colour ad for Orange Crush - showing the old brown glass bottle!; Colour GoodYear ad on back cover shows a downed air crew in a life raft being rescued by a plane. Address label atop front cover. Average wear. A sound wartime issue. Book
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Maclean's Magazine: Bound Issues July 1, 1985 Through September 30, 1985
Over one inch thick. Some of the many topics include: Beirut Hostages; American Protectionism; Sting; Closing the Levesque Era; Air India Flight 182 is blown up; Peter Loughheed's Legacy; Office Politics; Jenilee Harrison; Judy Chicago; Paul Desmarais (?) stalks Southam Inc.; Forty Years after Hiroshima; Nagasaki then and now; Fighting the fires of Summer; Boris Becker wins Wimbledon; Tina Turner; Reagan's surgery; Tears are not enough - starvation in Africa - Live Aid; Prairie Drought; Moves to buy Gulf Canada; South Africa Under Seige - the world debates sanctions; Bryan Adams - Superstar; Rock Hudson and AIDS; Toyota announces plans for Canadian plant; Debating Star Wars; Whale Watching; New Terror of AIDS; Paul Reichmann and his brothers buy Gulf Canada; Recovery in Tibet; The Race to Dominate the Arctic - the Polar Sea in Canada's north; Pierre Marc Johnson; Maple Leaf coins gain in popularity vs. the Krugerrand; Apartheid inferno in South Africa; Two-day Major League Baseball Strike; The Crisis of Canada's Water; Mulroney's first visit to B.C.; Year of the Dragon - Movie by Michael Cimino; The Takeover Frenzy; Botha's defiant stand; Cover photo of The Boss - Bruce Springsteen; Mulroney Cabinet Shuffle; War in Afghanistan; Pressure on Canada's wheat industry; Hard days for Canada's Navy; Special Report on Mulroney's Second Year; Pia Zadora; South Africa - a nation on the brink; Beer Battle; Quebec's garish crime press; Free Trade - climax to a historic debate; Swedes prepare to elect a new government; Canada's rapidly vanishing wilderness; Agnes of God - film; Joshua - Canada's costliest movie; Travels of Joseph Savimbi in Angola; Collapse of the Canadian Commercial Bank; Marcel Masse; Cover Photo - The Blue Jays race to the World Series; Mexico's week of death; The Tainted Tuna Scandal; TV Shows; Fishing Treasures of the Bow River. Light wear. Firmly bound. Former library copy with usual markings. Book
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Marine Technology and SNAME News, April 2004
Features: A study on the influence of ship roll characteristics on the risk of cargo shifting; A study of hydrodynamic characteristics of boundary layer with algae; Noncontact measurement of marine biofouling broughness; Nonlinear and stochastic aspects of parametric rolling modeling; Large passenger ship safety - time-to-flood simulations; Prediction methods of roll damping of ships and their application fo determine optimum stabilization devices. Unopened copy in original plastic sleeve. Magazine
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Marine Technology and SNAME News, January 2003
Features: An investigation of head-sea parametric rolling and its influence on container lashing systems; Effect of longitudinal bulkheads on damage stability of model RO/RO ferries; Innovative structural designs of tankers against ship collissions and grounding - a recent state-of-the-art review; Options for nonindigenous species and their economic impact on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway - a survey; Optimium structural design of high-speed surface effect ships built of composite materials; Considerations in the design of primary treatment for ballast systems; Spreadsheet modeling to determine optimum ship main dimensions and power requirements at basic design stage. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Book
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Marine Technology and SNAME News, January 2004
Features: Proposal of a method for implementing infrared scanning inspection programs in merchant vessels; Full-scale measurements of the maneuvering capabilities of fast patrol vessels, Argos class; Determination of optimum heat transfer area for vacuum evaporators in ships; Structural survivability of a modern passenger ship; Intact ship stability - the way ahead; Model experiments and simulations of a damaged ship with air flow taken into account; Some remarks on theoretical modeling of damaged stability. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Marine Technology and SNAME News, July 2003
Features: Optimum structural design of naval vessels; An object-oriented model for conceptual ship design supporting case-based design; A new generation motion-control system for twin-hull vessels using a neural optimal controller; Partial cavitation as drag reduction technique and problem of active flow control; Site team management for construction of a large modern cruise ship; A Time-Dependent corrosion wastage model for the structures of single- and double-hull tankers and FSOs and FPSOs; MODUS - Space Shuttle for deep-water operations. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Book
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Marine Technology and SNAME News, October 2003
Features: Multiobjective design optimization of B-screw series propellers using evolutionary algorithms; geometrical variation and distortion of ship hull forms; Real-time simulation of ship impact for crew training; Reassessment of the M.V. Derbyshire sinking with the focus on hull-girder collapse; Research opportunities identified during the casualty analysis of the fishing vellel Arctic Rose; Time-based survival criteria for passenter RO/RO vessels; A performance-based assessment of the survival of damaged ships - final outcome of the EU research project HARDER; Small commercial fishing vessel stability analysis - where are we now? Where are we going?; Discussion of Paper 1 - Resistance and propulsion characteristics of the VWS hard chine catamaran hull series '89. Unopened copy in original plastic sleeve. Magazine
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Nanaimo Marine Festival (Bathtub Race) July 17-25, 1993
A 34 page booklet which may have been included with local newspapers. Many black and white illustrations. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Naval Engineers Journal (NEJ) Summer 2002
144 pages. Features: Assuring a Sea Vehicles Science and Technology Base for Transforming the 21st-Century Navy. Patrol Craft Requirements and Technology Predictions Through 2010; ASNE Day 2002. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
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Navy / Notre Dame Football Game Program, November 4, 1944, Baltimore Stadium *Special Wartime Issue*
132 pages. Great collectible wartime issue with a very heavy military theme throughout both the content and many sensational ads. Color centerfold features referee in Coke ad and lineups of both teams. Photos of teams, individual players, and much more. Binding intact. Above-average wear. Incidental moisture marks. Bit of writing on covers. Book
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NEJ - Naval Engineer's Journal, Fall 2003
112 pages. Contents: A systems approach to the propeller redesign for the U.S. Navy SEAL swimmer delivery vehicle (SDV); Reliability assessment of corroding ship hull structure; Multiple-Objective optimization in naval ship design; Investigation of silicone and self-polishing bottom coating for high-speed craft; human systems integration and shipboard damage control; Interoperability and sensor fusion part III - seaking solutions; Demonstrating the electric ship. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
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NEJ - Naval Engineer's Journal, Winter 2002
112 pages. Contents: A statistical method of estimating the life expectancy of certain shipboard equipment; Engineering Aegis cruiser topsides - enhancing design capabilities and life cycle support; Toward more effective technology insertions for chemical and biological defense; Application of guns in naval force protection; Structural testing of navy vessels using Bragg gratings and a prototype digital spatial wavelength domain multiplexing (DSWDM) system; Navy mobile instrumentation system; Commercial marine emissions and life-cycle analysis of retrofit controls in a changing science and policy environment. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
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NEJ - Naval Engineer's Journal, Winter 2004
112 pages. Contents: Climate change, national security, and naval ship design; A hybrid approach to optimizing worload, manpower, and ship sizing; Navy shipboard CFC-114 elimination program; The influence of the weight of power systems on the performance of fast, long-range sealift ships with a small waterplane area; A ship for the expeditionary warfare sea base; Hydrodynamic characteristics of special type ships; High velocity air filtration system for marine LM2500 gas turbines. Clean, bright and unmarked with negliglbe wear. An excellent copy. Book
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News-Week (Newsweek) Magazine, September 6, 1937 - Workers Alliance of American Cover Photo
36 pages. Cover: Workers Alliance of America March in Washington. Contents: Far East: Japan Risks Whole Army and Navy in 1,500-Mile Offensive to Assert Supremacy; Relief: Questions and Answers Tell Story of Costly and Unsolved Mystery (Workers Alliance March); Labor: Profane Irish Expert (Edward F. McGrady) Hired by RCA to End 'Curse'; Massachusetts: Governor (Charles F. Hurley) Lets Memorial (Sacco-Vanzetti) Stay in Storage; Spain: Santander's Captor Gets Warning Form London, Felicitations From Rome; Balkans: Mysteries and Riots Excite Little Entente Powers; U.S.S.R.: Soviet Junior G-Man (Vitalik Arbatyan of Baku) Sets Examples for Older Boys; Cuba: Fourteen Men in a Boat Give the Army Police a Fright; Education: Jerome Davis Leans to C.I.O. (Committee for Industrial Organization), Embarrasses Yale; Nazis: Exchange Students End Training For Foreign Service; Foundations: New Research to Honor a Negro (Moses Carver) and a Diabetic (Renziehausen); Bacteriophage: Germ Eaters Are Whirled into Visibility; Grafting: New Bureau Formed to Deal in Skin and Cartilage; Entomology: Dr. L.R. Watson Breeds Gentle, Cowlike Bees; Missionaries: The Elders, Back From Iran, Are Surprised; Baseball: Cubs and Giants Gallop to a Photograph Finish; Golf: (Johnny) Goodman Is Best Man at Amateur Links Ceremonies; Screen: Refrigerated Comedy Puts Cinderella on Ice Skates in "Thin Ice" Starring Tyrone Power and Sonja Henie; Money: (Federal Reserve) Board Prescribes Discount Duts as Antidote for Treasury Nightmare; Jewelry: Orchids and Credit Help Galvanize Bauble Business; Living Costs: 864 Ways to Buy Hats, Keep Eggs, Save Gas; Painter: Mississippian (John McCrady) Turns to Delta Negroes for Subjects; and Today in America: Another Spain? Full Color Vintage Ad for Chesterfield Cigarettes in baseball game motif on back cover . Binding intact. Small mailing label bottom front cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Newsweek Magazine, April 17, 1944 *COVER PHOTO OF H.R.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH ALEXANDRA MARY*
Contents: Nash-Kelvinator military ad in color inside front cover; Ad for the Chrysler Sea Mule; Dewey triumph poses question - will Willkie bolt from party?; Hull's speech attempts to divorce politics from our foreign policy; Gun Play in Wichita - Bargel K. Stanley holds police off for an hour; Prelude to Torture - Jap Propaganda in Pictures - 3 pages reprinted from a mysterious undated English-language publication called 'Freedom' put out in Shanghai - "... these pictures show the great score the American people still have to score with the little men across the Pacific."; Navy Raids on Palau and Yap uncover secrets of Jap bases - old Sea Dogs are excited by size of U.S. attack force and nearness of Philippines; Photo of landing strip construction in China - 300,000 Chinese workers and 100,000 hand-made wheelbarrows have been conscripted to this end; British Rocket Battery - photo and article; Elizabeth, the future Queen of world's soundest monarchy; De Gaulle Triumph - finally becoming No. 1 Frenchman, he takes in reds - on his terms; Great photo of Curtiss Helldivers under construction at a new Fort William, Ontario plant which will produce for the U.S. Navy; SWPA starts setting policy on sale of surplus war goods; Andrew F. Howe, owner of 100 patents, finally settles with General Steel Castings for over $1 million; Trappist monks set up in Conyers, Georgia. Above-average wear. All pages stained to varying degrees, presumably by water - all text legible. A worthy reference copy. Book
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Newsweek Magazine, December 3, 1945
Contents: Color ad for 'Ask for Ethyl'; Bankers Trust ad - Buy Victory Bonds; Babcock & Wilcox ad - bombs and beauty aids need steam; Color ad for Ford trucks; Color ad for 1946 Packard cars; Auto strike raises new issue for Industrial Wars in America - the nation's biggest union asks stake in affairs of management by cry of 'Let's see the books'; Mrs. Damato of Shenandoah, Pa. christens the U.S.S. Damato - she lost two sons in the war; Photo of James Hendrix, Army hero; Matt Kimes - cop killer; Why the Fleet could not retreat to the West Coast - Admiral William V. Pratt; Congressional Investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack; Where the War Cause Lies - Japan; Nice color ad for General Tire; Color ad for the Aeroprop division of GM; Ezra Pound returns to the US to face charges of treason - with photo; The Federation of Atomic Scientists; Native world from Zion to Java stirred by nationalist little wars; 4 photos of Japan's Hirohito visiting the shrines of Ise to report Japan's defeat to his predecessors; Thorez, red architect of France; the Nuremberg Tribunal - with labelled photo of 20 defendants in their courtroom positions; two photos of Eva Braun; War-Winning Old Guard Begins Exodus from Top Service Jobs - retirements of Staff Chief and Fleet Commander are first of many peacetime moves; Super color centerfold for the new 1946 Chevrolet; Seabees dig in darkly for spell with Eskimos - Navy installations in the far north; Photo of the real Kilroy; C.D. Howe has his fingers in many pies; Canada's Baby Bonus; Heavy heavy over stock boom hangs wage-price policy delay; Inventor Gilbert Brereton and ramie; S. DeWitt Cough, President of Abbott Laboratories, calls for national health care; Robert Benchley 1889-1945; Color ad for teh Douglas DC-6; The reality of Salvador Dali; Unusual color Monsanto ad on back cover features young lovely speaking into a huge contemporary walkie-talkie. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
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Newsweek Magazine, February 7, 1938
40 pages. Contents: Little Businessmen Called to Confer With Mr. Roosevelt: President Seems to Count on Recession Righting Itself in Next Month or Two; 'Our Duty', a Navy Second to None; Filibuster: (Robert) Wagner Is Unaware of What Every Senator Knows; (Frederick) Steiwer Tires; Infantile Paralysis: President's Campaign Reaps a Harvest of Dimes and Dollars; Boneyard-Bound (Vaterland-Leviathan); (Paul) Van Zeeland Report: A Dream Foredoomed by Realities - Belgian's World Survey Stresses the Startling Fact That Autarchy Works; Light over Holland: A Girl to Carry on the Line of William the Silent; The Lingering League: Britain, France, Russia Save Geneva From Last Dishonor; Duce's Eaglet (Bruno Mussolini) Flies Down to Rio; Far East: American Faces Slapped but 'There Ain't No War in China'; Spain: No 'Military Objective Explains the Bombs'; New Yorker Discovers a Bullet or Two in the Brain Makes Little Difference; Microscope's Efficacy for Checking on Diagnosis: New Facts in the Case; Priest (Simon Buick) Wins Permission to Spread the Catholic Faith Among Bali's Hindus; Businesslike Exchange Plan Envisages Peace With SEC (Securities Exchange Commission): Wall Street Welcomes (Carle C.) Conway Committee's Ideas for Reorganization; Miners' Meeting: Troubles Within; and City Housing: New York Mayor (Fiorello H. La Guardia) Evolves a Slum-Clearing Program. Binding intact. Small mailing label bottom front cover. Contents clean and unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Newsweek Magazine, January 10, 1938
44 pages. Contents: President Makes a Gesture, Asks One From Business: Mr. Roosevelt Indicates He Will Stick by His Program in 'New Moral Climate'; Robert Jackson, Scourge of Trusts; Big Navy: The President Suggests We May Need More Ships; Lottery Round-up: Federal Raids Catch Gangs That Gamble and Always Win; The 'Robinsons': Trail of Moscow 'Spies' Leads to Marinelli and a Mess; Stranger Than Fiction: High Seas Murder and Piracy Puzzle to Coast Police; Unemployment: Completed Census Condemned as an Idle Count of the Idle; War of Attrition Puts China at Mercy of Two Devastators: (Generalissimo) Chiang (Kai-shek) Quits as Premier to Conduct Guerrilla Campaign Against Japanese; (Lazaro) Cardenas and Oil: Mexican President Again Strikes at U.S. Interests; A Poet Politician (Octavian Goga) Rises in Rumania; Reversal in Egypt: An Eighteen-Year-Old King (Farouk I) Swings His Scepter; Spain: Outcome Again in Balance on Teruel Front; Paris Strike: (Premier Camille) Chautemps and the Army Call a Red Bluff; A Year of Science: Blood, Atoms, Sap, and Secrets of the Earth and Sea; 250,000 Fans Cheer Grid Battles in Seven Bowls (One Iced); (Robert H.) Jackson Speaks, Stocks Waver, and 30,000 Lose Jobs: Assistant Attorney General Provokes New Wave of Caution and Upsets Tradition; Milk and Pennies: Anguish in N.Y. (New York); Silver: Buying Price Reduction Arouses Criticism; Labor Questions and Court Answers; and Perspective: (Robert H.) Jackson vs. Business et al. Back cover black and white photo ad for Paul Jones whisky features servant holding his tray 'High & Dry!'. Binding intact. Small mailing label bottom front cover. Contents clean and unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Newsweek Magazine, May 23, 1949 - Judge Harold R. Medina Cover Photo
92 pages. Cover: Harold R. Medina Contents: Pork and Politics: "Arkansas Switch" Four Votes Switch to Beat a Labor Bill; New Jersey:The Boot for the Boss - Frank Hague; Trial: His Honor, Judge Patience - Federal Judge Harold R. Medina; Navy: Man With a Rowboat; Tides in the 81st Congress; Hong Kong: Still the Show Place; Japan: Easing the Burden; Britain: The Export Gap; Big Four: Opening Bids - How Russia Sees Benelux, (M. Robert) Schuman, (Ernest) Bevin, and the Atlantic Pact; Monaco: New Prince, New Problem - Prince Rainier III; China: The Communists Make Plans; Canadian Affairs: Head Cracking at Asbestos (Quebec); Medicine: Insulin Sub-Shock; 'Oldest Choirboy' - Morton Downey; Commercials Critic - Horace Schwerin; and Perspective: Bonn and Weimar. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Morris Cars, Chrysler, 1949 Hudson and Old Crow Whiskey. Nice color-photo ad on back cover features fencers Jane Gilbert and Hugo Castello promoting Camel cigarettes. Binding sound. Small mailing label bottom right front cover. Some soiling to upper portion of front cover. Contents clean and unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Pathfinder News Magazine, October 3, 1951 - The New Boom in Oil
58 pages. Features: President Truman imposes censorship by executive order; Photo of launch of B-61 Matador robot bomber (missile); Nice full-page colour ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes featuring lady with Jack-O-Lantern and Navy man; Results of NATO meeting in Ottawa; Cab Driver Jose Carballal; Ailing King George VI; Hamburg is Rebuilding; The New Boom in Oil; Full-page two-color ad for Eaton 2-speed truck axles; New TV Tube from a hobby shop; Sumo - Japan's sacred sport - booms U.S. box office take; Nice full-age color ad for Ray-O-Vac batteries; Drop in Chesapeake oyster production; Why the Air Force needs veterinarians; Mayor Dorothy Lee of Portland, Oregon says no to gambling; Education about syphilis in painless, pinball fashion; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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People Magazine, 23 November 1987 - Don Johnson and Sheena Easton Cover - the Miami Vice Wedding
170 pages. Features: Lisa Steinberg is killed by her father, Joel Steinberg, who also beat his partner, Hedda Nussbaum - sad photos and story. Celebrity-studded opening of the Malibu Adobe eatery in Malibu; Charles and Di in Germany; 40th Anniversary of the King and Queen; Don Cappelletti sells his 90-foot-high home in Marshfield, MA; Jason Miller tests the new weather in Scranton; Donald Woods still seeking justice for Stephen Biko in the film Cry Freedom; Raymond Carver and Tess Gallagher; Jonathan Butler of South Africa; Sam Lopata - clown prince of restaurant designers; Moon Pies; Lottery winner Michael Wittkowski - won $40 million in the Illinois state lottery in 1984; Auto Racer Jim Fitzgerald killed in wreck; The New Politics of Pot; Tania Aebi - around the world in 29 months by sailboat; Don Johnson and Sheena Easton announce their TV engagement and hope for a big reception; Poster artist Robbie Conal; Robert W. Duck; Designer Mary Ann Restivo; Staci Keanan of TV's My Two Dads; Marine Corps says good-bye to Charles Russell, its last active-duty WWII combat vet; Siedah Garrett. Average wear. Unmarked. One-inch opening to fore-edge of back cover. A sound copy. Magazine
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Railway & Marine News, A Semi-Monthly Publication Devoted to Pacific Coast Transportation Interests, April 15, 1911, Vol. IX, No. 7 - Canadian Pacific's Great Fleet
Features: First Annual Report of American Express Companies; John F. Stevens Retires From Hill Lines; B.F. Bush Succeeds George Gould as president of the Missouri Pacific Railway (with photo of Mr. Bush); Causes for Trade Depression; Development of Alaska Fisheries; Hearing Regarding Pacific Coast Rate Cases; Larger Terminal Yards Planned for Tacoma; The Railroads and the Panama Canal; Sixty-Seven Steamships in Canadian Pacific's Great Fleet - article with nice illustration; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Three Sailors of the British Steamer Benedick convicted of mutiny by Edinburgh court; Captain David Baird to take charge of the Victoria and Vancouver Stevedore Co.'s Vancouver Branch - with photo of Mr. Baird; Suspension of Capt. Alfred Croskey Reduced; Tacoma News; Captain Fred Warner to command the famous steamer Corwin (brief article with photo); Nice illustrated one-page ad for The Shasta Limited, "The Finest Train in the West", which connects Seattle to San Francisco; Nice one-page illustrated ad for the Vulcan Iron Works of Seattle features an aerial view of their plant; Willamette Iron & Steel Works ad features nice photo of fireboat "Geo. H. Williams" belching black smoke and pumping water in the air; Canadian-Pacific Railway Steamships ad features schedule for their connections between Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver; and more. 40 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
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Scientific American, December 1970, Volume 223 Number 6 - Interference Coatings
Features: Marine Farming; The Absorption Lines of Quasi-Stellar Objects; Auditory illusions and confusions; human embryos in the laboratory; optical interference coatings; rickets; Permanent Magnets; The Mule. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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Sea Breezes - The Magazine of Ships and the Sea: December 1974
Features: Fire in the Mexican Gulf; The Marine Art of Arthur Briscoe; P & O Liner "Canton" of 1938; Ships on Stamps - The Chichester Breed; Dover Re-visited; Malta's National Shipping Line; The Barge Carriers - 3 - "LASH" on the North Atlantic; The John Herron Line. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.23. No. 1 - January/February, 1977
Features: Strait of Magellan - the Ultimate Passage; Bluefin Tuna - Vulnerable Giant; The Oriental Art of Abalone Scrimshaw; The International Tsunami Warning System; Superstrain of Oil-Eating Microbes; Shrimps that Dwell with Anemones; Diving into the Future; Capturing Fishes; Progress of Marine Fish Farming in Britain. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.24. No. 2 - March/April 1978
Features: The Birth and Growth of Planet Ocean; The Octopus as a Pet; The World's Greatest Sailing Ship; Predatory Prawns; Hawaiian Fish Emigrants; Tractor Tugs - Marine Workhorses of the Future?; Fossil Mangrove Reef of Key Biscayne; Tiger Sharks. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.27. No. 3 - May/June 1981
Features: The Gannet Sanctuary at Cape Kidnappers; Waves of Energy; Living Color on the Rocky Shore; Basking Green Sea Turtles; Protecting the Southern Ocean; Galveston's Killer Hurricane of 1900; Bikini Atoll - Radioactivity and the Marine Environment; The Oyster Toadfish - a voice in Long Island Sound. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.28. No. 1 - January/February 1982
Features: Fiddlers of the Marsh; Diamond Rock - Gibraltar of the Caribbean; Internal Waves - The Wake of Sea Monsters; Oyster Reefs - Valuable to More than Oysters; Hospital for Marine Mammals; Flamingo Tongues; Biological Sources of Energy from the Sea; Lighthouse Hostels; Black Bottlenosed Dolphin. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.28. No. 3 - May/June 1982
Features: The Unicorn that Goes to Sea; What is Sea Level; the Successful Submarine that Failed; Protection from Shark Bite - a suit of mail; Catalina's life-saving marine laboratory; Up from the deep; Waikiki roughwater swim; The Australian Institute of Marine Science; the Birds of Midway Islands; Life in a Boat Channel. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.28. No. 5 - September/August 1982
Features: The Ring Story; A Touch of Gold; Hydrofoils - Up and Away; The Great Cretaceous Sea Lizard; Hong Kong Fisheries - Progress at a Price; Blimps, Blips and Dredging; Gyotaku; Marine Mammals in Captivity. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.29. No. 3 - May/June 1983
Features: Carmel Bay - Marine oasis in the cold Pacific; Leatherjackets - savory stingers; nations unite to fight pollution; Protecting the Caribbean; Oama summer; Cocos Island - Verdant treasure; Miniature marine foulers; Man-made Island - solution to economic and environmental woes. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.31. No. 2 - March/April 1985
Features: Vision in marine animals; The sea birds of northern Britain; Ex Libris - Neptunus Rex; In search of spiny lobster larvae; the unspoiled Little Barrier Reef of Saudi Arabia; Winter kill of summer flounder; The ancient sea that became a state; Master of disguise. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.31. No. 3 - May/June 1985
Features: Cordell Bank - an underwater island; Preserving a common heritage - Treatment of marine artifacts; Tiger of the sea whips; Queen conch at the crossroads; Bermuda mystery waves; Garadiavolo - the devil monster hoax; Save the babies - Strategies of marine animals; there was a Moby Dick; The fuzzy sea butterfly. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.31. No. 5 - September/October 1985
Features: Bonaire Marine Park - a commitment to conservation; Bright colors in the realm of eternal night; 'ah, for the good old days at sea'; Deadly but not dangerous; Monterey Bay Aquarium - exploring the bay on shore; The shark - more threatened than threatening?; Lights of the Port of New York - Part 1. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.32. No. 3 - May/June 1986
Features: Diving in an octopus's garden; Asteroid impacts, seafloor sediments, and extinction of the dinosaurs; the Sheepfold; Red Tide - A recurrent marine phenomenon; Megamouth - new species of shark; Why Cadiz must be saved; Anastasia and the reefs of sand. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.33. No. 2 - March/April 1987
Features: Alaskan Marine Life and the Eskiimo - through art; Tails of whales and fins, too; Vancouver Island's undersea kaleidoscope - a diver's paradise; Remote Sensing - adding to your knowledge of oceans; the strangest case of the freshwater marine fishes; Forest in the dunes; Brine Shrimp - Curious crustaceans; rings on coral fingers. Sound copy. Book
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