Word: gadgets
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...disposed of by the Mackinnon-Fly Publications. They cut its price from 25? to 10?, boosted its circulation from 100,000 to 300,000. Next year they will offer Mechanical Package Magazine, each copy of which will be delivered in a box containing also the parts of some mechanical gadget to be assembled by the reader according to instructions in the magazine...
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...contraption to be fastened to coffins so as to ring a bell above ground at the slightest movement within the coffin. (Mexican law requires that a body be buried within 24 hours after death; embalming is rare; danger of burial alive in Mexico is great.) Cost of the gadget: ten pesos...