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Features: Technological Momentum, Motor Buses, and the Persistence of Canada's Street Railways to 1940; Thomas Edison - the battle of the systems and the persistence of direct current; The Persistence of Draft Oxen in Western Agriculture; Technical Advance and Stagnation - the case of nail production in nineteenth-century Montreal; The Influence of Resource Quality on Technological Persistence - Charcoal Iron in Quebec; Time for a Change? - Technological Persistence in the British Watchmaking Industry; Change and Diversity within traditional Cooperage technology; Randolph Hersey and the Montreal Nail Industry, 1852-1903; Revolution Forgotten - The Peters' Combination Lock Co., Moncton, N.B.; and more. Average wear. Former library copy with usual markings. A sound copy. Book
Features: Sea Life of Canada's Western Shores; Grizzly Country - a vanishing heritage; Feathered Orphan; Cygnets of the Trumpeter Swan; Flowers of Canadian Conifers; Ecological Reserves in Canada - the work of IBP-CT. Few library markings. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Tornadoes in Canada; The ingenious Western Hognose Snake; The Art of George McLean; The Pygmy Shrew - may weigh as little as three grams; Bird Migrations at Beaverhill Lake; Ogoki-Albany - a familiar drama; Photographyer Brian Milne. Few library markings. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Ex-Library
Features: Roadchucks - street smart woodchucks; The spirit of the wild - Four artists; Salvador the Snapping Turtle - raised by humans; Trees of the Western Wind - the wind whispers among the limber pines; Spiders in fact and fancy; Lost Stands - the crisis in our forests - part two. Few library markings. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
60 pages. Features: Great ad for Dodge Trucks features delivery van, a pickup and a stake truck; Wonderful one-page International Trucks ad features tractor trailer hauling mature tree as part of construction of Treasure Island at the Golden Gate in San Francisco; Bewildered Congress groping for sound neutrality policy - article with three photos including Bernard Baruch; Defense Fever - America prepares for war; Photos of high income earners Louis B. Mayer and Greta Garbo; Italy's Seizure of Albania spreads fear from the Adriatic to the Dardanelles - major article with eight photos; Levantine Ferment; Hitler Yardstick; Refugee dilemmas in Europe; Hitler conscripts children 10 through 18 years-old for the Hitler Youth; Handsomme one-page color Packard auto ad features a 120 touring sedan; Nice two-color centerfold ad for Schlitz beer; Nice one-page two-color ad for Pontiac cars; Chevrolet car ad; Baby tumor cured with X-ray therapy; Western Union's photos by cable - with received image of Yankee Clipper aircraft; Early vintage ad for Titleist / Acushnet Golf Balls; Diary kept by Byrd's ancestor, William Byrd of Westover VA, is a gold mine of colonial data; Obituary for Joseph A. Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia; Nice 2/3-page ad for the Hotel Del Monte; New Oil Boom - four-state boom is centered near Forest City, Missouri; Full page introduction to Ernest K. Lindley of Newsweek's Washington Bureau - with photo; Photo of carload of dignitaries at New York's World's Fair includes Alfred E. Smith, Henry Ford, Mayor La Guardia, Grover Whalen (fair boss), and Edsel Ford at the wheel; Zeus cigarette holder ad; Color ad for Mount Vernon Whiskey on back cover features scene in George Washington's dining room. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
98 pages. Features: Nice color Nash car ad inside front cover; What became of swimmer Trudy Ederle; Rare one-page photo ad for Sikorsky Aircraft featuresS-51; Classy color ad for Lincoln cars - "Nothing Could Be Finer"; Color ad for Borden's instant coffee features 'dumb' husband serving wife in twin bed; Neat Jeep ad shows Jeep on side with arrows indicating design features such as PTO (power take off) at front and back; Fifteen photos of Harry Truman accompany article on him; Tony Doto - a soldier trained to kill has trouble in civilian life; Mr. Truman's plan for the Middle East; What price Soviet-Iranian Accord? - with photo of Dr. Ali-Akbar Daftary and his daughter, Iran Ala; Middle East - Bevin, Pashas, and Peoples; Herbert Hoover pleads for food for children; Manchurian scramble in China; Photo of Hirohito; Nice color-photo Kodachrome ad; Nice color centerfold ad for Jones & Laughlin Steel features over the road freighting illustration - before steel; The New France watches the Rhine; Velasco Ibarra loses friends in Ecuador; Brief obituaries for C. Oscar Strand, Thomas Dixon, and composer Vincent Youmans; Photo of 13-year-old Jerry Mullen of Los Angeles having glass removed from his backside - the 15th trip to hospital for this accident-prone boy; Nice one-page ad for Western Air Lines - America's Pioneer Airline; National black market in lumber - 'peckerwood' sawmills; The town of Arlington, MO is sold by Fred Pillman for $10,000 - with photo; Nice Delta Airlines ad; Nice one-page color ad for the Gilbert Paper Company of Menasha, Wisconsin, provides aerial illustration of their snow-bound plant; Nice ad for Gaylord Boxes; and more. Above-average wear and soiling. Clear tape along coverfold. Back cover missing. A worthy vintage copy. Book
76 pages. Cover: Walter Hoving Contents: Foreign Policy: The Bipartisan Honeymoon Is Over - Speaker Sam Rayburn Pleads for Fund to Arm Western Europe and Potential Allies Against Soviet Union; Rough Going for Harry (S. Truman); Inquiries: Such a Small Baby - Harry H. Vaughan; Politics: The G.O.P. (Grand Old Party) Broom - Guy G. Gabrielson; Communism: Union Tint Remover; Crime: Electrodes for Two - Raymond Martinez Fernandez and Martha Beck; Courts: Anti-Red Law Upset - Maryland Subversives Act, known as the Ober Law; Notes on the Arms-Aid Cut - Arms Aid Program for Westen Europe; Britain: Lost Week End in the Welfare State; The Balkans: Steel for (Josip Broz) Tito; Germany and the Council (of Europe); Devalue the Dollar? Europe Plumps for That as One (Option) Out (of the Economic Crisis); Chile: Riot Turned Red; Peru: Safe Conduct - The Aftermath of Peruvian Government Seized by General Manuel Odria; Argentina: 'The Fourth Enemy' - La Prensa Newspaper vs. President Juan Peron; Seventeen (Magazine) is Five; Business: Fashion Man - Walter Hoving, Bonwit Teller; Automobiles: New Styles in Studebakers - Studebaker Corporation's Preview of the 1950 line; When Government Fixes Wages; Religion: Missions Unlimited - Marshall D. Barnett; Swimming: The Proof - Hironoshin Furuhashi; and Perspective: Illusions of Security. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Goodyear Tires, Pontiac, Burroughs Adding Machine Co. and Alcoa Aluminum. Binding intact. Contents clean and unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Contents: Nash car color ad inside front cover; Commercial Solvents Corp. ad with great Iwo Jima beach landing photo; Chrysler *Fluid Drive* color ad; Only Stalin of first trio is left but Attlee carries on where Churchill left off; Very graphic 6-photo sequence of a 'Jap' being burned to death by a flame-thrower; British Labor landslide stirs the world - the winning issue was not Churchill but new homes and jobs for Britons; Photo of a masked 'squeeler' identifying Gestapo agents hiding in the ranks of the Wehrmacht in Norway; Nice color ad for Martin aircraft; Photo of Dutch people tearing up trolly blocks for desperately needed fuel; Trial of Marshal Petain in France; Amazing coverage of B-25 Mitchell bomber striking the Empire State building - the diagram looks just like what the world witnessed September 11th, 2001; The Big Playhouse - Michigan's cushy prison at Jackson; Japan on the ropes - strikes at Kure naval base cover harbor with blazing ships - B-29s blast forewarned cities; Photo of American troops from Europe massing in Manila; *Super* color centerfold featuring a 1942 yellow Buick convertible; photo of leaflet dropped on Jap cities prior to bombing (with article); Photo of Canadian General Crerar who's army has been dissolved; Kaiser lines up Graham-Paige in march toward reconversion - with Frazer's selling genius added to Western Steel facilities, Combine's one need is capital; Photo of experimental helicopter, the PV-3, in flight; Nice color Imperial whiskey ad; Surplus problem - whether to scrap the Office of War Information's (OWI) profitable magazines abroad; Swiss family air force - survival training; Motorola radio ad; Great color Union Pacific Railroad ad with emphasis upon beautiful Washington state; Unmarked with average wear. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Book
Contents: interesting Borg-Warner ad features color military illustration promoting their desalination equipment; Full-page ad for movie 'To Have and Have Not' starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall; Interesting ad with several photos of the Great Northern Railway; Norfolk and Western Railway color ad; Friction over policy for Europe disturbs relations of big three - idealism of U.S. clashes with realism of British and quiet toughness of Reds; Red Thrust on Hungarian front may be master key to victory - Vienna, aim of campaign, is strategically a greater prize than even capital of Reich; Inside V-2 - official British diagram of a German V-2 shows the workings of the rocket and its relative size as compared with a man; The Ormoc Trap; Disaster in China - struggling to save lifelines to the Occident; Kaywoodie Briar pipe - beautiful color ad; Photo of a Fifteenth Air Force Liberator aflame over a heavy flak barrage; Men over 26 to fill the ranks as casualty lists grow longer - 26 to 37's must work or fight in bitter war months ahead; Interesting ad for the Comptometer displays a Googol! - of interest to modern-day Google fans!; White Truck color ad - attractive; France sated with bloodletting - moderates move to halt purge - Germans threaten reprisals against French captives in Reich if executions are continued; Photo of Canadian General Crerar with Cpl. E. O'Connor of Toronto; De Gaulle with Molotov; Industry puts reconversion aside to answer hurry call for arms; The Japs failed purge of the Philippine educational system; Great Lakes Steel color ad featuring futuristic auto body styles. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. Center page loose but present. Book
Features: Small Scales; Dollhouses shared in the heyday of radio; Linda Petersen's 1/" scale man(sion) of her dreams; Native Americans II - Western Baskets; Harry Evans captures hearts and houses in an unusual scale; Return to Pippin Hill; Quicker Wicker; Microcrafting Tiny II - rules to live and work in 1/4" harmony; Along the Mall XVI - Movers and Shakers; The Strathmore - build the cover house; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Reprint of "Recollections of Old Milestown" by S. Gordon; Sky of Brass, Earth of Iron - reprinted from the book 'Western Vision' by David Lavender; World's Greatest Slaughter! - the appalling slaughter of the American buffalo; Buffalo Comeback - the Canadian Government preserves a portion of Canada's once mighty buffalo population; Circuses and Contests; Before the days of Libel - when a newspaperman could say anything he durned please; Renegade Battalion - they deserted Fort Brown to join the Mexican Army only to be killed when the Americans stormed Monterrey in 1846; Travesty Town - the story of old Millerton; When Panic Took Over! - smallpox epidemic at New Tacoma, Washington Territory, 1881; Apache Gold - Buck Adams; Conquering the Rockies with a camera - William H. Jackson; Pioneer Mother - escaping the Indians; Old Cornucopia, Oregon and its gold mine; 'Bet-a-million' Gates - Magician - he turned barbed wire into a lead pipe cinch!; Death at Christmas - Frank Rochas; Lost Camp - from 'Homestead Years' by Lloyd I. Sudlow; Pawnee Bill - "Little Giant of Oklahoma'; Some men need it lonely - Archer B. Gilfillan, sheepherder; His eccentric highness - Joshua Norton, 'Emperor of the United States'; friend to no man - Ben Cravens used partners to commit crime... but didn't need their help to spend the proceeds; the courthouse went by train - moving a Nebraska courthouse by rail; Hellgate to Tonopah - early Nevada memories; Luckiest Cuss in the Klondike - Clarence J. Berry. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: The Blizzard, by Walt Coburn; Revival at Seven Rivers - The Jones Family of New Mexico; Canyon of the Skeletons - a young Crow brave helps his people survive; The Fight that Finished Tombstone - the knockout punch by Mel Rigley was the most expensive punch in the entire history of the west!; Lady Moon - Catherine Evelyn Gartman was loud of voice, crude and boisterous of manner; Man, was it rough! - rugged Idaho Territory; The Last Owl-Hoot - lawmen called Earl Durand 'The Wyoming Tarzan'; Lost - a fortune in silver, somewhere in Arizona; They Could Laugh... at Death - the pioneers never lost their sense of humour; Sandhills Tragedy - children lost in the great sandhills of Western Nebraska, the dread fear of every pioneer family; The 'Fightin'est' Ranger - Jim Gillett; Military Ghosts on the Carson - Fort Churchill; Oklahoma Scout, by Theodore Baughman; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Sea Otters and Personalized Bullets - long-ago days of white hunters, Indian hunters, and a curiosity-filled child on the beach - Grays Harbor, Chehalis County, Washington; Riding the Rails with Hood River Blackie - Hobo Camps and Jungles; The Scandal of Park County - Como, a near-ghost town in Colorado's South Park; New Mexico's Tully Family - a story of cattle and horses and men of strong will; Will Written on a hat - W.S. Baldwin; Oil Boom in Alligator Land - Dallison, West Virginia; Matched Bronc Ridin'; Logging on Nine Mile Creek in Western Montana - Eat, Sleep, and Work - no Women, few laughs; Murder on Cane Hill - makeshift brutality avenged by makeshift justice dealt out by the famed 36 - Washington County, in Northwest Arkansas; The Doctor Turns Cowboy - Part II from 'A Frontier Doctor' by Henry Hoyt; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Approximately 70 pages. Black and white plate. Contents include: William Burr's Moving Panorama of The Great Lakes, the Niagara, St. Lawrence and Saguenay Rivers; Regionalism in Canadian History; The Dominion General Election of 1878 in Ontario; National Vs. Provincial Loyalty - the Ontario Western Boundary Dispute, 1833-1884; Imagination in History; The Society's Annual Meeting; Notes, News, and Reports. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Small stain to front cover. Nice solid copy. Book
20 pages. Features: New company directors - John Wallace Eaton, David Kinnear; Mr. Earl Chestnut retires; Mr. Len Dell promoted; Saskatoon rink wins Ladies' Provincial Curling title - Joyce McKee, Syl Fedoruk, Donna Patton, Muriel Coben; Osler rink of Regina wins Eaton Trophy - D. Brault, Cam Osler, Lynn Wilkinson, Bob Waller, Don Anderson; Standings of Ladies' and Men's Curling Club February Standings, with 4 photos; Hazel Smith and husband Gordon report on their Pacific cruise - with photos; Parting gifts for Mrs. Josephine Shepperd and Vi Collins (with photos); News from Prince Albert; Moose Jaw News; Great photos of employees playing outdoor hockey at Optimist Park; Mr. William C. Bores Retires - write-up with nice group photo. Additional employee news. Moderate wear. Handwritten greetings on front cover. A sound copy. Book
Features: Gateway Yard (Pittsburgh and Lake Erie); Push-Button Yards; Dollar a Division - Western Roads used to welcome the now-vanishing hobo; Concrete ties in Sweden; Roster of Maine Cental Lines; Louisville and Nashville Locomotives; and more. Small date stamp atop front cover else unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
Topics: Liverpool's Edge Hill; Transfer Shed Transers; Development at Great Yarmouth - Part 1; Golden Jubilee; Great Western Trick Photography. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
98 pages. Marion, Ohio - The Haunted City; Western Pacific's F-7 Revival; Cookin' with Gas - Union Pacific's Gas Turbines were an interesting experiment; Early Rock - 1st Generation diesel locos of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Diesel hydraulics - tried and failed; The Diesel comes to California's Cajon Area; The Maybrook, NY Yards - a spooky place; The story of steam 1920-1950 and why it came to an end; Amtrak's new Superliners; Oregon Live Steam; Old Stations gain new lives. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: The Manchester Flyers; Final Curtain - Plymouth to Paddington on the Western Tribute Special; 20 Years of South Wales Inter-City Services; North Eastern Locomotives-2 - Studies in Locomotive Performance, No. 13; Weekend in France; Then and Now - Eastleigh; British Rail in Camera - Manchester and Environs/ West Country Scenes; Specials on the Southend Line; Western Wanderings; Two Venerable 2-4-0s; Stamps; and more. Price stamped upon front cover else unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Magazine
208 pages. Features: A bilateral nuclear-weapon freeze; the harvesting of interacting species in a natural ecosystem; the growth of western North America; a genetic switch in a bacterial virus; Glueballs; the ecological physiology of a garter snake; the physics of kettledrums; the first nuclear industry; and more. Many nostalgic color photo ads. Some markings to cover and contents. Minor moisture exposure. Moderate wear. Magazine
96 pages. Features: Reports on Indonesia, Washington and Rio, and Australia; The Decline of Western Democracy, by Walter Lippmann; The Portrait ( a story) by Wolf Mankowitz; Textbooks Under Fire, by Virgil M. Rogers; The Poet as Playwright, by Archibald MacLeish; By Slow Degrees, by Catherine Drinker Bowen; The Young Poets - Leah Bodine Drake, Irving Feldman, Claire McAllister, R.G. Everson, Erick Barker, H.F. Ellis, Oscar Handlin; Alberto Moravia, by Charles J. Rolo; German Hotel, by Jeseph Wechsberg; Interesting anti-communist ad by Radio Free Europe inside back cover seeks to raise 'Truth Dollars'. U.S. Savings Bonds ad inside front cover features American sailor Richmond Hobson Above-average wear. Unmarked. Some soiling. Book
168 pages. Features: Cover art entitled "Coffee Carriers" by Candido Portinari; Reports on Red China, Turkey, and Washington, D.C.; Can Men Live Without War, by Vannevar Bush; Rhythm in My Blood, by Agnes De Mille; Asia's Needs and Western Policy, by Barbary Ward; Poetry by E.G. Burrows, Harold Witt, James L. Rosenberg, and Daniel Sullivan; Medal in the Sky, by Leo Rosten; Mozart and Nancy Storace, by Boris Goldovsky; The Fly Farm, by Grant Cannon; The Day Aunt Chaya was Buried, by Wolf Mankowitz; The Stature of Harry Truman, by Herbert Elliston; Brazil - The Good Neighbor - Essays, Stories and Verse by Brazillian Writers. Unmarked. Above-average wear. Front cover partially detached. Back cover not included. Book
64 pages. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
12 pages. Features: Lady Eaton visits Edmonton; Mr. Donald Hobson Honoured on Retirement; Mr. W. Rawcliffe guest speaker; Girls' Curling Club; Photos and story re: Red Deer inter-store curling bonspiel; Florence Gilmour elected queen of Old Scona; Martha Berg honoured; Eaton's opens buying office in Germany. Additional employee news. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
12 pages. Features: Mr. W.B. Bucham appointed Edmonton store Superintendant; Mr. Frank Southern celebrates 30 years at Edmonton store; Doreen Day retires as fashion consultant of Eaton's in Montreal; Cornelius "Casey" Juffermans and his passion for tropical fish; Men's curling season winds up - photos and text; Shower for Halia Skolski; Photos and story about Inter-store curling bonspiel at Red Deer. Additional employee news. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book