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Fan Slants, v. 1, issue 1, September 1943
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FAN SLANTS..................................................................7 [title in large letters; author's name in cursive script.] TOMORROW? [centered] ------Walt Daughtery [quotes centered] "For years we devoured fantastic stories by writer-prophets, picturing an incredible world of the future--a world where airplanes took off from every roof, where newspapers were received and printed on the living room radio, where meals were served in capsules and people slept on elec-tricically heated beds. "It was all an alluring fairy tale. And then one day, we woke up to a startling discovoury: That incredible future has come to pass! It is right here now, sprouting before our eyes, in our laboratories, workshops, and factories. In our hands today are the tools, the materials, and the forces of mass production to make that tomorrow a reality." Thus began an article in [title underlined] The American Magazine for March, 1941. The Article, "Tomorrow Has Arrived" by Waldemar Kaempffert, dealt to someextent with the average life of a family in the year 19?? That story of the future is more than a possibility today. I'm sorry to say it has taken a war to stimulate many of these scientific advances. Pick up any copy of [titles underlined] Collier's, The Post, The American, or innumerable others and you will find all kinds of ads in what we can expect after the war--advances that, had they been mentioned to the laymen two years ago, would have been stamped NUTZ. General Electric plans to put recordings, with pictures, on film for home movie sound machines. Think of these joys in store for us: Shostakovitch's [title underlined] Fifth without a break of any kind such as turning or changing records. Two or three dollars and you can life the [title underlined] Toccata and Fugue with full-color right out of Disney's [title underlined] "Fantasia" and put in a small film container in your own library for playing at your leisure. One reel will be close-up shots of Serge Rachmaninoff's playing his own [title underlined] Prelude in C Sharp Minor, another the [title underlined] March from [title underlined] Things to Come by the London Sym-phony Orchestra. These things no doubt leave you saying, "Gosh--if't were only so!" It is so--it is possible---today---here---now. There are many things which must wait--many things for which we do not have answers. Technocracy has been screaming, "Flying Wing Flying Wing! Why don't we have Flying wings?" True, Technocracy dus have the designs and models, but they never have been proven in actual flight. I believe in the flying wing myself, but it is not yet ready for us. Roger Northrup, one of America's foremost aircraft ex-perts, actually has been flying a wing with twin motors for the past two years and it is quite evident that the tests have not proven out to his satisfaction. You can bet your bottom dollar that he would have gone into production of the plane---which might well have made
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FAN SLANTS..................................................................7 [title in large letters; author's name in cursive script.] TOMORROW? [centered] ------Walt Daughtery [quotes centered] "For years we devoured fantastic stories by writer-prophets, picturing an incredible world of the future--a world where airplanes took off from every roof, where newspapers were received and printed on the living room radio, where meals were served in capsules and people slept on elec-tricically heated beds. "It was all an alluring fairy tale. And then one day, we woke up to a startling discovoury: That incredible future has come to pass! It is right here now, sprouting before our eyes, in our laboratories, workshops, and factories. In our hands today are the tools, the materials, and the forces of mass production to make that tomorrow a reality." Thus began an article in [title underlined] The American Magazine for March, 1941. The Article, "Tomorrow Has Arrived" by Waldemar Kaempffert, dealt to someextent with the average life of a family in the year 19?? That story of the future is more than a possibility today. I'm sorry to say it has taken a war to stimulate many of these scientific advances. Pick up any copy of [titles underlined] Collier's, The Post, The American, or innumerable others and you will find all kinds of ads in what we can expect after the war--advances that, had they been mentioned to the laymen two years ago, would have been stamped NUTZ. General Electric plans to put recordings, with pictures, on film for home movie sound machines. Think of these joys in store for us: Shostakovitch's [title underlined] Fifth without a break of any kind such as turning or changing records. Two or three dollars and you can life the [title underlined] Toccata and Fugue with full-color right out of Disney's [title underlined] "Fantasia" and put in a small film container in your own library for playing at your leisure. One reel will be close-up shots of Serge Rachmaninoff's playing his own [title underlined] Prelude in C Sharp Minor, another the [title underlined] March from [title underlined] Things to Come by the London Sym-phony Orchestra. These things no doubt leave you saying, "Gosh--if't were only so!" It is so--it is possible---today---here---now. There are many things which must wait--many things for which we do not have answers. Technocracy has been screaming, "Flying Wing Flying Wing! Why don't we have Flying wings?" True, Technocracy dus have the designs and models, but they never have been proven in actual flight. I believe in the flying wing myself, but it is not yet ready for us. Roger Northrup, one of America's foremost aircraft ex-perts, actually has been flying a wing with twin motors for the past two years and it is quite evident that the tests have not proven out to his satisfaction. You can bet your bottom dollar that he would have gone into production of the plane---which might well have made
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