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1932Features: Hoover Dam - purposes, plans, and progress of construction; Editorials - Dr. George K. Burgess and Dr. George F. Kunz - are there White Indians? - back to earth - construction - wages; Flying in the beginning - early experiments with man-carrying kites and gliders; Peregrinations of a freight car - as a railroad freight car travels here and there over the country, records are made of its movements in minute detail; New Planetary discoveries - the discovery of minor planets has fairly been put on a basis of mass production; The muscular power of insects - the muscles of insects give them much greater power proportionately than other animals possess; A masterpiece of Museum-craft - the largest existing monument of Greek sculpture has been re-erected in a museum in Berlin; Radio in the forest service - new transmitter-receivers, one weighing only 10 pounds, are to be tested this year; Solo man - a fossil skull - a new find of great importance; new notes on ancient man - recent discoveries throw new light on man's antiquity; Tropical fish as pets; Food for a floating hotel - the supplies for an ocean liner's next trip are ordered while the liner is still 1000 miles out at sea; Whirling molten steel to make gun castings - newly perfected centrifugal process promises better guns; Treasure trove in lowly "Sweeps" - all wastes and sweepings in jeweler's plants are carefully salvaged and precious metals recovered from them. Building safety into automobile glass - laminated safety glass for cars does not shatter; Quartz takes up fire fighting in the automatic heads of sprinkler systems; Advertising a curb on product design pirates. Back cover graced with colour Lucky Strike advertisement featuring painting of a sensuous young woman beneath the caption "OK - Miss America! We thank you for your patronage."Three inch opening between top of spine and front cover. Book
réf. 538185 avril 1945 - N° 15 - revue illustrée - in-4 broché
20148vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
194264 pages. Features: Nice colour GM of Canada ad inside front cover says "25 Million Man-Hours ago", and illustrates wartime manufacture; News digest includes American attacks in the Pacific, Britain attacks at Dieppe, and Victory by Air Power?; Trans-Canada Telephone System one-page ad says "Day and Night, The Telephone is on the job for Victory"; Photo of Flt.-Lieut. H.T. Legge, D.F.C., of Calgary; Nice one-page Parker Pen ad; New Hearts for Old - article on medical advances; Hand Me Down the Moon (short story); Sabotage Strangles Hitler - photo-illustrated article with scenes of destruction in Germany and France; Great is the Glory (short story); One Grand (short story); Wings for the Infantry - photo-illustrated article explains how gliders and paratroops may play a vital role in our coming invasion of Nazi-controlled countries; Not in the Books (short story); Hollywood news and photos; Cotton at War - photo-illustrated article explains wartime uses of cotton; Ford Motor Company one-page illustration of young Windsor man training in machine shop; Fantastic centrefold Victory Bonds red and white ad says "Canadians Rally to the Call" and shows civilians marching; Pepsodent ad features photos of stewardess twins Athalie Davis and her sister; Woodbury Soap ad features photos of Lovely Denyse Quintal of Montreal; Woodbury Cold Cream ad features photo of Dorothy Lamour; Old Dutch Cleander illustrated ad titled "Housecleaning Hints for Wartime Wives!"; Article providing suggestings for packing overseas parcels; Recipes for wartime hospitality; Brazil - our new ally (brief article); Beauty tips article; Fashion illustrations; Quotes from around the world; Photo of children submitted by Mrs. J.L. Brood of Kenora; Rare one-page ad inside back cover in which the Government of Canada specifies "National Selectiver Service Regulations, Effective September 1, 1942; Back cover features unique ad by the H.J. Heinz Company titled "Keeping the Home Front... Fit!"; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this excellent wartime issue. Book
19998vo., Second Impression, with maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
1941Features: Australia's first air V.C. - Wing Commander H.I. Edwards; Photos of Italian and German POWs in Africa; Presentation of the Polish air force flag in England - six photos; Russia bombs Rumanian oil-fields; Diagram of German gliders used at the battle of Crete - landing air troops; Four fantastic low-level daylight photos of the R.A.F. attack on Rotterdam - 100,000 tons of enemy shipping crippled; Russia's resistance - article by Cyril Falls; Photos from Russia - where Soviet troops are at death-grips with the German enemy; Centerfold illustration of 'Winnie", a huge camouflaged English gun which hurls vast shells across the channel into German-occupied territories; Two full-page illustrations of giant English guns mounted on rail cars; Photos of England's 'Front-Line" Town - Dover; Photos of leading personalities of the week; Two-page map of the western Pacific illustrates America's strategic air and naval position in relations to Japan and Singapore; Photos of the "Robin Moor" being blown up by the Germans - the first U.S. ship torpedoed by Germany; Three photos of the Robin Moor's survivors at sea; Full page family photo of the Duke and Duchess of Kent with their two children, aged five and four; Article on the Plover; Full-page Dunlot ad shows how they serve agriculture; Full-page ad for The Nuffield Organization shows air crews with their planes in background. Average wear. Faint ink stamps to front cover. Clear tape inside each cover along spine, and externally along spine. A sound copy. Book
193040 pages. Features: Engine Testing Laboratory - Aeronautics Branch installs three new torque stands - article with photos; Geared Centrifugal Superchargers for Aircraft Engines; Cabinet Interiors -article with photos; Copper and its Alloys in Motors and Aircraft; The Comet Engine - 7 cylinder radial air cooled engine with 165 HP; Aeronautics Branch will License Gliders; Los Angeles County promotional ad; New Aircraft - with photo inside the Ford Club plane; News of the Industry - with photos of Edward Macauley, L.W. Greve, and William Ganson Rose; New Developments; Nice Stromberg-Carlson ad on back cover with photo of C.E. Bolduc, radio technician of the Colonial Airlines, inspecting radio at Boston Airport; many more vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
réf. 113808Soleil éditions, DL septembre 2013 et aout 2015, les 2 volumes en première édition. 2 albums cartonnés d'environ 23 x 32 cm, 48 pages plus 8 pages de dossier sur les planeurs pendant la seconde guerre mondiale par BD, très bon état.
