WE’VE tried everything else. Let’s give them a good old-fashioned scolding.” This is about what the members of the Federal Reserve Board must have said to each other before issuing the famous statement of February 6, in which they minced no words in asserting that the amount of funds being used for speculation was a menace to busi... continued here
Graf Zeppelin Visit 1929
[caption id="attachment_280" align="aligncenter" width="374" caption="Graf Zeppelin stateroom"][/caption] THE ZEPPELIN FLIGHT—beg pardon, the Hearst-Zeppelin flight—captures the imagination, as does any activity of these huge, slightly incredible ships which now and then nose through the sky, inviting mortals to gape. Eclipsing its last year... continued here
Mauretania vs Bremen
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THE MAURETANIA, grand old lady of the seas, will have to substitute lavender or gray, or some other shade more suitable to her advanced years, for her jaunty blue pennant. For the Mauretania is well out of her ‘teens. As her captain pointed out, she has smoked a good bit in her day and is a trifle short-winded. Yet she need not mind taking i... continued here
How to create Marcel Wave hairstyles
Create Beautiful Marcel Waves We have republished a rare 1920s book that teaches how to recreate the marcel waves that added beautiful waves to the various womens hairstyles of the 1920′s and 1930′s. The Marcel Wave is similar to the Finger Wave in appearance, but the Marcel is more permanent due to the use of a hot curling iron. It is ... continued here
Bobbed Hairstyles – 1920s Cutting and Styling
Create Beautiful Bobbed Haircuts Learn how to create the short, intermediate, and long bobs of the 1920′s and 1930′s – the beautiful bobs of the modern era. Learn how to cut and mould to the contours of the head and neck…the natural hair lines…and the facial features. Learn how to emphasize good features and minimize d... continued here
How to do Finger Waves
Finger Waves from the 1920′s and 1930′s We have republished a rare 1920′s book on Finger Waving, in electronic form. It teaches how to do finger waves in the way that added style and variation to the short, intermediate, and long bobs of the 1920′s and 1930′s – the beautiful bobs of the modern era. It is difficul... continued here
Diesel Engined Plane
Diesel-engined airplane QUITE A FLURRY appears to have been caused at Langley Field, Virginia, at a meeting of the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics when a Diesel-engined airplane owned by the Packard Motor Company of Detroit descended after a 650 mile flight. The Diesel engine is not a new development—hundreds of merchant ships, even ocea... continued here
Air Rivalry
THE FORD-GENERAL MOTORS rivalry has gone abroad. It has even ascended into the clouds. Let General Motors announce that its new automobile plant near Antwerp, Belgium, is nearly completed; Ford buys a site at Edgewater, N. J., at which to assemble Ford parts and load ships for the export trade, and his son Edsel bends a silver ceremonial spade in h... continued here
End of the Flapper Era
1928′s STYLE IN YOUNG GIRLS Gone is the flapper. In her place has come the young woman with poise, of soft-toned and correct speech, soberly dressed, and without closely cropped hair. Such, at all events, are the specifications of Miss 1928 as portrayed in the current number, of the “Junior League Magazine,” which is the national ... continued here
Atomic Energy
Scientific thinking on Atomic Energy in 1929 A fond dream of scientists – the hope of some day obtaining energy in tremendous quantities by releasing forces known to exist within the atoms of matter – was given a Christian burial on the recent occasion of the award to the scientists Michelson and Millikan of the gold medal of the Societ... continued here