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Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.
 

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Super fuels for your car
1
Automobile engines (Fuel), Gasoline (Anti-knock and anti-knock mixtures)
Coming up, the all-hydraulic car
8
Hydraulic transmission
$200,000,000 gateway to Europe
12
New York (N.Y.) (Airports)
Shore duty on a battlewagon
17
Warships
Mapping Japan for the bombers
24
World War, 1939-1945 (Aerial operations, Campaigns and battles, Pacific)
Meet the model man
65
Wax figures
Green grow the atolls
76
RATIONS., UNITED STATESForeign economic administration
Message from the jungle: snafu
82
UNITED STATESSignal corps
End table
89
Tables
Bouncing bobsled has auto-spring body
103
Sleds

Incubator babies of the plant world
28
Botany (Embryology), Plants (Breeding)
Propjet engine
32
Airplane engines, Jet propulsion
Proving ground for inventions
34
CROSBY research foundation, Inventions
Meet the silicone family
40
Silicone
Hundred billion dollar scrap pile
44
Salvage (Waste), Surplus products
More fish per kilowatt
51
Dams, Salmon
Shot treatment toughens metal
56
Shot peening
Two million car garage
59
United States Ordnance Dept

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