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B&W Illustrations; This is a slightly larger than trade paperback magazine. The magazine is in Good only condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The magazine covers have edge wear, tears, nicks, and smallish chips. The spine ends of the magazine have chunks missing. Articles include: How a Skyscraper Window Washer Faces Death by Fred A. Belt, Undersea Pipe Line Loads Oil Tanker, FBuilding Speed Planes for World's Greated Air Race by WIlliam Jennings, Uncle Sam's W-A-R Rules Nation's Radio Network by RObert W. Gordon, The Amazing Story of Boulder Dam by Mel Wharton, ROy Chapman Andrews - Hunter of Stone Age Mammoths by Alfred Albelli, and more. "From its debut in 1928, it went through a number of permutations over the years, being called at various points in its life, Modern Mechanics and Inventions, Modern Mechanix and Inventions, Modern Mechanix, Mechanix Illustrated, Home Mechanix, and, in its final incarnation, Today's Homeowner. Although it featured many how-to articles, the most eagerly awaited and read features were Tom McCahill's monthly automobile tests which ran from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. McCahill's feisty opinions were delivered in a prose laced with similes that are still quoted today among car enthusiasts: "As anyone brighter than a rusty spike must know." ; flooring the accelerator pedal on a certain car is ".like stepping on a wet sponge"; the clock/tachometer combination on another car is ".about as useful as feathers on a moose." McCahill died in 1974, and three years later CBS bought Fawcett Publications, the company which published MI, and continued publishing the magazine, renaming it Home Mechanix starting in January 1985. In August, 1996, it was again renamed as Today's Homeowner, and ceased publication with the March/April issue in 2001, being merged into sister publication This Old House. " (From Wikipedia). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers A42064
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