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we At Bell Telephone Laboratories, more thon 2300 scientists, engineers, fond their associates ore continually exploring and inventing, devising fond perfecting for improvements and economies in telophone tarvice, 2 POPULAR MECHANICS Popular Mechanics Magazine HHL WINDSOR, Founder WHEN TTom Stimson, our wostern gditor, was gatharing motarial for ‘Wecknd Bera! (page 164) he opt an alert eye for samples of sil Ike geld end silver ore. He ig ahown ‘above exploring an ‘abandoned mine. THERE are somo eye-opening Tevelations in" our opening. fea: tire, “Uncle Sam Waighe His Re- uroos," on page 89. A. tecent Zovernment’ survey. shows that ‘finough Bes eu coal une derground Taste 88h years ve only encugh cope for io yenrs and our Know Peserves of led will be gone in a decade, SHRUB planting in the garden- g's bok ip fst another nae for spring, and next month & speci Feature in the Craftsman section offers expert advice on plantings for comers, terraces ar ip TOWS, for loty large or small. Another April feature lists preventive {eatments for common car ills those litle things that every car omnes should de peels to favoid big repair bills Thea there's another practical story on. the onstruction of small cement ‘mixer that has most of the labor= saving features of a much larger fuchine. One how-to-make-it ar- TS pel emer ar t-te hovelly Raréware fr handoo Blove boxes or small chest JUNIOR medio students and ex- orimentors will find a tepped- Goll eryetal set combined with a Ztube” battery-operated ampli- fier in the April Redo section. MARCH 1638 1 1, WINDSOR, Jr, Bditor and Publisher In This Issue Uncle Sam Weighs His Resources - 89 Bigger Than Texas - - - 96 ‘“Chessie” Has That New Look- = 107 Deep Sea Rodeo - - - 6 Tools That Fit in a Needle’s Eye > 122 ‘The Old Indian Game - - - - 126 Hedge-Hopping Highway Engineer- 133 What's New for Your Home - + 138 They Blaze a Trail Into Space - - 144 Southwest Mounties Patrol Range 153 Weekend 49ers - + - = = + 164 Hitchhiking Insects Forbidden - - 170 For the Craftsman Arbors Frame Entrance Gates - - 186 Cutting Tapered Legs - - - - 191 There's Profit in Farm Photos - - 202 Laying Hardwood Flooring - - - 210 “Sea Craft”—a 25-ft. Cabin Cruiser 218 Radio and Electronics ~~ 229 Clinic for Homemakers - - - - 242 Table of Contents continued on page 8 GET BEHIND A S STEVENS... Division, Chicopee Falls, Mass. ee te nae il aac Megat die So Tone 7 fa Sea oe s POPULAR MECHANICS «For small game hunting. pest riddance, plinking or informal target shooting — for moreall around sport and greater valucs— ‘act behind a leo shorgua baile by Savage Arms Corporation. Write for new free catalog. Savage Arms Corporation, Firearms HOW 21S Ameries's bank py Bill Reche We could find out by moans of balance? Our sav count i not the cast in try oF the total money in eireulaton; mon ty is only a working symbol of a nation's of a billion de ‘sconomie wealth, The bank balance thet cording 10 Tn Feally counts—that makes the difference “In a recent federal treaa- the nao an exact geological mapping of f which only 10 percent bas yer bean agen ely surveyed, at cos between prosperity and. depression —is and resources by the Twenuleth Century therew materials in and above the ground ‘Nobody knows the ur civilization would rapidly about face to that of the Stone Age MARCH 1948 Buried treasure—coal and gold, iron ore and oil-and other re- ‘sources make the U. 5. rich, The question it: Will they hold our? Soviet Union, it

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