Archive for December, 2006

The Secret of Makeup 1927

The Secret of Make-up
MY DISTASTE for dyed hair, however, is only aesthetic. Since my marriage I have completely changed my point of view about dressing up for effect. Before I married I hardly ever used make-up, except when playing. I didn’t care what I looked like. I was the worst-dressed actress in New York [...]

Christmas Shopping 1926

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING BY BUS
THE two most prominent developments during the present Christmas shopping rush noted by J. C. Royle, Consolidated Press correspondent at New York, are the elaborate stocks of mechanical toys and the extent to which the motor-bus, rather than the railroad, is being used by the Christmas shopper. Says Mr. Royle in one [...]

1929 Christmas Club Money

MORE CHRISTMAS-CLUB MONEY THAN EVER
“PEOPLE who depend on the Christmas â€” Club for their holiday spendings are not affected by the recent unpleasantness in Wall Street, for a recent press statement shows that this year’s payments are to be 10 per cent. greater than last year’s, and more than five times the amount in 1920. [...]

Overpaying Income Tax in 1925

DON’T OVERPAY YOUR INCOME TAX!
IT SEEMS strange that after all these years of income-tax paying, the Bureau of Internal Revenue should find it necessary to warn taxpayers making income returns not to pay more than they actually owe. But such is the case, observes Bradstreet’s, noting that the issuance of such a statement was found [...]

Belgenland World Cruise 1925-26

LARGEST AND FINEST LINER EVER TO CIRCLE THE GLOBE
ON November 25th the Red Star Liner Belgenland sails Westward from New York on her second World Cruise of 132 days. The 475 fortunate voyagers will visit 60 cities in 14 countries throughout the worldâ€”60 cities which have been carefully chosen because of their charm and their [...]

Concrete with Bamboo Reinforcing 1923

CONCRETE REINFORCED WITH BAMBOO
Bamboo, which has been chemically treated, is used as a reinforcing for concrete in Japan and, we are told in Concrete (Detroit):
“According to Henry C. Hitchcock, the American consul, Nagasaki, Japan, the chemicals used in treating the bamboo are apparently known only to the few who have made use of them. Bamboo [...]

Prediction that Cars will cause Obesity 1923

DO MOTOR CARS MAKE US LAZY?
THERE CAN BE NO QUESTION about the usefulness of automobiles, says a writer in The Medical Review of Reviews (New York), nor about the desire for leisure
which makes up the large number of people who drive, not because they are in a hurry or have to cover long distances, but [...]

Industrial Relations 1924

STANDARD OIL’S INDUSTRIAL PLATFORM
WHAT might be called “the industrial platform” of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey was recently summed up by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., at a dinner of the employees of the country. It seems to Mr. Rockefeller that the great corporation with which his name is associated has taken a high [...]

Three Cylinder Train Engine 1925

THE THREE-CYLINDER LOCOMOTIVE
WHAT HE CHARACTERIZES as “perhaps the most significant of our modern locomotive advances” is described in The Scientific American (New York, February), by Albert C. Ingalls. It is the first successful development in America of the three-cylinder locomotive. There is nothing complicated about this new development, Mr. Ingalls assures us. Simply, instead of [...]

Too many Baseball Home Runs 1924

BASEBALL SHUDDERS AT THE HOME-RUN MENACE
THERE were too many home-runs last summerâ€”so many, in fact, that the popularity of baseball is said to be facing something like a crisis. As a result, the best minds and magnates of the Major Leagues will spend much of this winter, reports a sports writer, Irving E. Sanborn, devising [...]