1940s
Miss Cheesecake
The contest seems to have gone on for a good number of years in the 1940s and 1950s.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 11, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Food, 1940s, 1950s
The Soybean Car
The "Soybean Car" was actually a plastic-bodied car unveiled by Henry Ford on August 13, 1941 at Dearborn Days, an annual community festival. The frame, made of tubular steel, had 14 plastic panels attached to it. The car weighed 2000 lbs., 1000 lbs. lighter than a steel car. The exact ingredients of the plastic panels are unknown because no record of the formula exists today. One article claims that they were made from a chemical formula that, among many other ingredients, included soybeans, wheat, hemp, flax and ramie; while the man who was instrumental in creating the car, Lowell E. Overly, claims it was "…soybean fiber in a phenolic resin with formaldehyde used in the impregnation"
See more pix and text here.
Or at the Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 04, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, 1940s, Cars
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 57
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 01, 2024 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Statues and Monuments, 1940s, Women
Are you a Danger-Mother?
Danger Mother would be a good name for a band, if there wasn't already a band named Wolfmother.
Life - Mar 29, 1948
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jul 25, 2024 -
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Category: Advertising, Parents, 1940s
The 1941 Slide Rule Queen
This honor was bestowed by my home state's university, the University of Rhode Island.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 19, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Science, 1940s, Universities, Colleges, Private Schools and Academia
Bomb Proof Eye Guards
Mechanix Illustrated - Mar 1941
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jul 10, 2024 -
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Category: War, Weapons, 1940s, Eyes and Vision
Unauthorized Dwellings 34
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 01, 2024 -
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Category: Unauthorized Dwellings, 1940s, United Kingdom
Follies of the Madmen #599
Who knew that electrical appliances could be such rivals? And is that gal's Bride of Frankenstein hairdo a result of the scary radio mystery, or just her natural style?If you go to the source, you can magnify the text.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 26, 2024 -
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Category: Radio, Rivalries, Feuds and Grudges, Technology, Advertising, 1940s
Woodbury Rand, cat lover
When Boston attorney Woodbury Rand died in 1944, he left $40,000 to his cat Buster. Out of a $1,000,000 estate, that's not particularly unusual. But what made his will odd was that he disinherited anyone whom he felt hadn't properly appreciated Buster.Buster was only 8 years old when Rand died, but he died the following year. Perhaps of a broken heart?
New York Daily News - Aug 6, 1944
New York Daily News - Dec 30, 1945
Posted By: Alex - Sat May 11, 2024 -
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Category: Death, Inheritance and Wills, Cats, 1940s
Miss Dial
In 1949, Terry Leah won the title of "Miss Dial" in a contest sponsored by Dial Soap. As far as beauty titles go, this one wasn't that unusual. But what was unusual was that, as part of the responsibility of being Miss Dial, Terry had to take a bath, using Dial Soap, in the window of Eckerd Drug Company in Charlotte, North Carolina.Adding to the public exposure, Dial promised that the person who took the best photo of Terry as she bathed would win $25.
Charlotte News - July 7, 1949
Charlotte Observer - July 8, 1949
Young Dickie Higgins was determined to win that prize. I'd bet that was the most exciting day of his life up until then. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find out who did win the photo prize.
"Dickie Higgins takes a shot of dancer Terry Leah, who is posing in a bubble bath in a Charlotte, North Carolina, store window advertising a new line of bath soap."
NY Journal American - July 28, 1949
(left) Greenville News - July 9, 1949; (right) Raleigh News and Observer - July 14, 1949
Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 22, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Hygiene, Photography and Photographers, 1940s
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