Test from back of image: "The above photo shows - Lt. Cmdr., Richard E. Byrd, U.S.A. retired who is to lead an independent expedition to the Polar regions this year. On this trip which is being financed by John D. Rockefeller Jr., Vincent Astor and...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Paint industry; Plastics industry; Metallurgical industry;
Table of Contents: Tough jobs are their dish; Set them, forget them; News lens, mirror of mankind; A painter's paint; The chameleon pigment; New look for the clippers; Our 20,000 year old crop; The chemical fly swatter; Fish that's really fresh;...
Table of Contents: The world of plastics; Building in the Arctic; Jersey for the whole family; Evaporating washday drudgery; Industry's versatile bristle; Special assignments; Queen of quarries; Teflon in the electrical industry; You won't believe...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Football; Posters; Explosives; Bridges; Automobile industry; Airplanes; Plastics industry; Toy industry; Refrigerator industry;
Table of Contents: Specialists in a spectacular sport; Rebirth of a monument to romance; Diamond grand slam; Retired with honors; Custom cars: going for Baroque; Fly faster longer; A serious business built on child's play; A new advance in inner...
Table of Contents: Up, up and back again; Destination Denver; Mission: Mars; Soloing with Suva; ...And now, a word from space; Street legal and built to fly; Safe surroundings; On target with Axarel; Partners for parts; Corporate high wire; News in...
Table of Contents: Leather's 7-league boots; You fly by color; Less wrinkle for fabrics; No more of this; Protection for cats and cranes; A selling appearance; New diet for the soil; News for puddle-jumpers; Why there's not enough cellophane;...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Television industry; Textile industry; Railroad car industry; Plastics industry; Nylon;
Table of Contents: What's in a name; They get in your hair; New explosives for oil men; Detective story; The vanishing taboo; Television is changing your life; Something new in rugs; The product nobody wanted; Useful urea; Boon for fabrics; Better...
A few minutes after this photograph was snapped these 33 sturdy Vultee BT-13 Basic Trainers, piloted by U.S. Army fliers in foreground were roaring down the 4000 foot runway at 10 second intervals for delivery to Moffett Field, California basic...
This is a reissue of a picture of the XF-92A a research interceptor which, because of its Delta Wing, has a resemblance to the F-102, Delta Wing interceptor now ordered into initial production by the U.S. Air Force. The F-102 will be built by...
While it would be possible to fly the Lockheed Constellation across the country non-stop in less than 9 hours, in actual scheduled service-allowing for one stop-it coud carry this group from Los Angeles to New York in less than 10 hours. This...
Redstone launch vehicle carrying a boilerplate model of the Project Mercury spacecraft launched at 12:30 pm from Cape Canaveral, FL today appeared to fly its preplanned trajectory. The vehicle reached a peak altitude of 115 statute miles, a maximum...
The Boeing 707 prototype, Americas first jet transport, lifted from the Renton municipal airport runway adjacent to The Boeing Company plant where it was built as thousands of spectators watched, some from the roofs of nearby buildings. Ushering in...
Correspondence; Government contracts; Gunpowder; Ordnance industry;
Francis Breuil's contract to purchase 400 barrels of powder from the E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. Breuil likely made this purchase on behalf of the Minister to Spain. See Life of E. I., Volume 7, pages 155 and 221. Contract is in...
Easy way to assure that your dry fly will float realistically on the water to attract the big ones is to use this handy aerosol product. Its fine spray imparts a long lasting, water resistant coating to the lure.
Note taped to back: "Coatesville, 1/3/14. Mr. C.L. Huston, Dear Sir, Before the old fly wheel was removed from the puddle mill, I made a picture of it, and as the wheel has since been destroyed I thought you might be pleased to receive a copy of...
Text from back of image: "The giant new Lockheed Constellation is a successful of Lockheed's engineering research, combining high speed with a long range and great cargo capacity in one airplane. Faster than a Japanese Zero fighter or any...
Text from back of image: 'Here are shown Little Shirley Tripken (right) and Adelaide Martins, daughter of Dr. E. Pinto Martins, assistant pilot and navigator of the Sampai o Correia, who in the presence of New York City and State officials,...
Text from back of image: 'The 'Untin' Bowler, giant Sikorsky biplane, which will attempt to fly from Chicago to Berlin via Iceland and Greenland, hopped off from North Beach, Queens, NY on June 29th for Chicago. Robert Gast and Parker Cramer were...
Text from back of image: 'Capt. Georges Kirsch and Lt. Antone Mourre, French aviators, who will attempt to fly from New York to Paris next year are visiting in Los Angeles. Capt. Kirsch held the world's altitude record of 11,000 meters in 1921, and...
Text from back of image: 'Refreshed after a night's rest, Paul Codos (left), and Maurice Rossi (right), gallant French flyers who landed in New York a day before, after a trans-Atlantic crossing from Paris, are shown at breakfast with Charles de...
