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Vantage Point, issue 1, March 14, 1945
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was in constant perin from representatives of the Jap silk interests and out domestic stocking manufacturers, while the first man bold enough to have suggested making a razor blade that would never wear out is probably resting at this moment on the bottom of the Chicago River, encased in a block of cement. The sole inventor who escape with less than the loss of his eyebrows prior to the advent of the forties was found to have presented no threat to the stability of the economic structure. His product was odorless perfume. There can be no doubt that practically any one of us has a fascination for gadgets. A favorite pastime of Americans is to haunt the counters of the five and dimes looking over the latest miracles in doohickies and thingumbobulators. But to suggest them as a panacea for poverty, or to soothe us with plastics, when what we really want is a paycheck, is a foolish approach to a pressing problem and can only result in the creation of another Niagara. I am as ready as the next man to call a prefabricated box my castle, and I am actually palpitating for the time when I may quietly invest in a down payment on a roadable sport plane with built in bath. But there is a little memo I'd like to slip the manufacturers of all these goodies before they vanish into their cellophane wrappings. When the time is ripe for the horn of plenty to sound its jive, I want to be assured of the wherewithal to get right into the groove. * *** *** * (5)
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was in constant perin from representatives of the Jap silk interests and out domestic stocking manufacturers, while the first man bold enough to have suggested making a razor blade that would never wear out is probably resting at this moment on the bottom of the Chicago River, encased in a block of cement. The sole inventor who escape with less than the loss of his eyebrows prior to the advent of the forties was found to have presented no threat to the stability of the economic structure. His product was odorless perfume. There can be no doubt that practically any one of us has a fascination for gadgets. A favorite pastime of Americans is to haunt the counters of the five and dimes looking over the latest miracles in doohickies and thingumbobulators. But to suggest them as a panacea for poverty, or to soothe us with plastics, when what we really want is a paycheck, is a foolish approach to a pressing problem and can only result in the creation of another Niagara. I am as ready as the next man to call a prefabricated box my castle, and I am actually palpitating for the time when I may quietly invest in a down payment on a roadable sport plane with built in bath. But there is a little memo I'd like to slip the manufacturers of all these goodies before they vanish into their cellophane wrappings. When the time is ripe for the horn of plenty to sound its jive, I want to be assured of the wherewithal to get right into the groove. * *** *** * (5)
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