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...sharp-eyed Reader Malone, a salute for seeing what TIME's picture editor (and apparently TIME's readers generally) failed to notice: Rachele's Singer has no spool on the spool...
...South it was the rockets, and more than brännvin was needed to counteract them. Since last May, swarms of spool-shaped, silent missiles with fiery tails have been zooming over Swedish territory at 875 m.p.h. (500-odd reports described some as slower and cigar-shaped, others as square and red-bottomed...
...purple spool of thread...
...magnetized wire, used extensively during the war, has now been developed to a point where it is commercially practical. A wire recording and playback machine which will sell for $300 will be put on the market by the Utah Radio Products Co. of Chicago by Dec. 1. The spool of wire is long enough (11,200 ft.) to play for 60 minutes. It will play the same recording an indefinite number of times, or the recording can be "erased" after one playing and another made. Handiest feature: a clock attachment which synchronizes radio and wire recorder. It will turn...
...West Coast discovered this mid winter sport only 15 years ago. Their steelheaders' tackle was homemade -from coffee cans and bicycle baskets. Now they use 15-ox. rods & reels with jewel bearings. Equipment includes cans of "goof" (salmon eggs) for bait, a spool of red thread (to tie walnut-sized gobs of goof on the hook), a whiskey bottle and a "gob rag" - a fetid turkish towel for wiping hands after fixing the bait...