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Pictured below, with open collar and a day’s growth of beard, is Walt Disney, whose studio in Burbank, Calif. is now going full blast to help win the war. Tacked up behind him are sketches for his Food Will Win The War, a short cartoon film made for the Department of Agriculture. Here Disney drivesContinue reading “Walt Disney Goes To War. – August 31, 1942 Life Magazine”

In 1847 bright, persevering Elizabeth Blackwell wangled her way into the Geneva (N. Y.) Medical Institution. Two years later she graduated with distinction, becoming the first woman in the U. S. to obtain an M.D. degree. But when her sister sought to duplicate Elizabeth’s feat she found the school doors closed to her. Mid-19th Century AmericaContinue reading “Girls Medical School – December 10, 1945 Life magazine”

Earlier this year, Apollo 14 had Alan Shepard and his version of a golf club. This July, Apollo 15 will have its own version of a golf cart. Folded, squeezed and packed into a storage compartment in the lunar module’s descent stage will be a four-wheeled battery-driven moon car called the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV).Continue reading “Apollo 15 Moon Rover – June 11, 1971 Life magazine”

Scattered about the U.S. are some 1,100 houses which long before the housing shortage were receiving the longing stares of almost everyone who passed them by. They were designed by Royal Barry Wills, a Boston architect whose products seem to be an almost perfect fulfillment of the sentimen. tal American ideal of what a homeContinue reading “American House Designer – August 26, 1946 Life Magazine”

You have to look twice at the airplane pictured above to see that it is flying without a propeller. Its motive force is the thrust of two invisible streams of hot combustion gases, jetted at high velocity from its engines. This plane is the Army Air Forces’ P-59, the first U.S. plane to be flownContinue reading “Jet Propulsion – November 27, 1944 Life Magazine”

You have to look twice at the airplane pictured above to see that it is flying without a propeller. Its motive force is the thrust of two invisible streams of hot combustion gases, jetted at high velocity from its engines. This plane is the Army Air Forces’ P-59, the first U.S. plane to be flownContinue reading “Jet Propulsion Launches a New Era in Man’s Locomotion”

The colorful card is filled with stories and pictures about the people, places and events that made the year special. The collectors DVD presents the year’s most entertaining video highlights including People In The News, Politics World Events, Fashion, Entertainment, and Sports. Lively and informative, Flickback DVD Cards make a fun party celebration– or why not treatContinue reading “Events of 1950 DVD W/Greeting Card Buy Online”

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