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NEXT MONTH a front-row seat awaits you for our own “European Auto Show'—a five-page picture’ layout of some postwar cars that should make Detroit sit up and take notice. Europe is fighting for export business in automobiles. Another January feature tells how electrically operated machines are becoming the right hand of medi- cal science, Then there's an article on America’s most dangerous busi- ness which takes a toll of 45 lives every 24 hours. This business — surprisingly enough — is farming. FIVE-SECOND sequence, “injec- tor” cooling, electric shutter and “eyewink” speed of slide chang- ing—these are the top features of a new-type color-slide projector fully described with how-to-build plans in the January Craftsman section, Another story tells how to make an incubator for the biol- ogy lab. If it is built in the school woodworking shop every student will have an opportunity to under- stand its construction and operat- ing principles. And of course you'll want to read the article on tree pruning so that you'll be ready for the work when dormant-prun- ing time rolls around. BEGINNERS will find a 1-tube dual-regenerative a.c. loud-speak- er set in the Radio and Electronics section next month, also simple diagrams for individually con- trolled extension speakers for any receiver. DECEMBER 1946 EH: H. WINDSOR, Jr., Editor and Publisher DECEMBER 1945 Volume 86 Number 6 ‘Managing Editor. S Roderick M. Grant Assistant Managing Editor... “Wayne Whittaker ‘Shop Notes and Crafts Editor James R. Ward ‘and Electronics Ecitor. Frank L. Brittin Editor. Editor. “Thomas E. Stimson, Jr. oFronk Beatty Art Director. Assistant Editors Donald. Brooks Clifford B. Hicks Moston M. Jacks Virgil T, Swanson Assistont Editors, Shop Notes and Crafts ‘W.Clyde Lammey Wayne C.leckey John F.Shrock A.E. Youngquist In This Issue I Rode the Turtle By Comdr. Walter S. 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