Show postwar post war period in U S to be an amazing new age after war years will see astonishing Cli changes anges in ways of living mr and mrs average american of the postwar era probably will find themselves living in a world full of comforts conveniences an and 1 gadgets that at a present day view have a decidedly jules verne flavor They may own a home that was erected iram from the ground up within eight hours and Is just as stable as one which before the war required six months to build the home will have conveniences undreamed of even for comfort loving americans bans they probably will drive a modestly priced automobile that runs 35 allison ml miles lison on a gallon of go gasoline SO and will negotiate terrain and hills lor formerly merly feul hul table only for the time honored mountain goat 1 if 11 they live on a farm they probably will have an amazing vehicle that can be used to plough harrow milk and round up tha lie c cows when vacation time comes around they mayfly may fly over to cairo or down to buenos alres aires for the weekend week end or they may even make an around the world trip during the head of the fam ilys traditional two weeks off with pay these are arc not fancies conjured from a lewis carroll who autho authored red alice in wonderland imagination they are practical potentialities which industrial experts already ore are forecasting as the logical peacetime application of armament developments war la Is a force forceful fill spur to the progress of industrial science and invention ven tion under its duress there Is no time for the cautiously slow experiments peri ments which mark the reception accorded new inventions and discoveries in years of peace new methods new materials are accepted overnight and are tested in the acid furnaces of combat the tragedy of modern warfare is an anachronism ronis of progress distance annihilated there is no better illustration of this than thai the advancement made by aviation as as a result of world wari the airplane represented pew new potentialities of speed and i destruction and as such was seized aponas upon as a weapon of offense by tte allies and their enemies alike in the short period of four years aviation made an advance adva that would have required a quarter of a century in normal times today the some same situation magnified ten times over ob obtains only recently glenn martin the noted aircraft designer announced plans tor for a ton behemoth of t the 11 e air capable of transporting pounds of equipment at speeds of 0 to miles an hour to be built after the war This said mr beas be as big apa as a 30 room house meanwhile another company is reported to have already completed the wooden dummy of a ship that will dwarf the martin monster a ton model which could move who whole le battalions across the continent overnight already jin 1 in use are new methods of construction construct lon which lighten aircraft C ft by hundri hundreds eds of pounds and so tremendously their passenger and freight carrying ability naturally ur ally these planes are at present only in ia military form when peace coines however when peace comes these Goll of thi the clouds will be interpreted in terms of pleasure and convenience for a travel loving no nation the almost unbelievable speed which has been developed for mill tary planes some of which fly to in excess of miles an hour will place far flung continents and abid their cities within a comparatively few days or few hours flying distance lof of the united states flying freight trains probably will become the order of the skies th the e increasing public interest in aviation the training of thousands of af young men as expert pilots and the strides made by safety in ivia aviation tion also presage a new era of private flying ten years even five years from now plane rental and fly lt it yourself services probably will 1 I be too commonplace to be news when priorities are no longer necessary stall proof spin n proof planes such as the Er coupe and notable for folding wing features probably will travel side by side with au along the highways as they shuttle from air field to 1 garage As C R smith former president of american airlines recent recently lyde declared in the postwar post war period non toward a gewera new era even as the nation devotes the full energies of its industrial power and scientific genius to victory its citizens can still lift their eyes above ari and beyond the holocaust of world war to au an era that will bring with it a new pat tern of living at once finer and more dramatic in its benefits than anything civilization has known before stop operation over the ocean will be prosaic with most of the cross crossing to europe done at high altitude spends in excess of miles per hour 14 P miracle car forecast for farm use As in aviation so lil in the world of automotive progress the developments of war will become integrated into americas peacetime pattern of life a few years hence in recent tests conducted by the united states department of agriculture and willys overland motors inc incy makers makei sand and manufacturers of the standard design jeep at auburn ala and toledo ohio the vehicle gave promise of performing wiehl with the same versatility on the farm as it presently is is d doing on ti the battlefields I of europe and the far east easta during these tests the car did ev eva ery grything thing from and har rowing a field in oab one operation usa us ing gallons of gas per acre to hauling almost a ton ind and a half of farm produce a distance of 13 mlle miles on a gallon of gasoline already known as the ardys miracle car the jeep is the descendant ant of a motor motoi driven platform on wheels known as the belly flop per which was first demonstrated at fort benning ga in 1040 1940 aj at the request of army officials joseph W frazer president of the willyse overland company and other automotive experts expel ts undertook the design descg of a car which would not exceed 1400 pounds in weight and should F livi ftc x alk A A M NIA k V K t g M t N M biffi W I 1 0 TIM A 0 2 this Is a modern version of beathia swords into ploughshares plough shares con con averting the he ardys miracle car the jeep into an agricultural vehicle of 0 many uses who knows but that somo some future day old bossy down in the south pasture wlllie will be herded by means ot of such a jeep be capable of carrying a pound load that a peacetime version orthis vehicle which can climb grades that balk a tankard tank tan kand and negotiate croughter rain at 40 miles an hour developed Is of course logical and the american farmer will gifts thus inherit one of the nit nations ions mos most t valuable pieces of military equipment these automotive principles of high powered engines which consume a minimum of fuel also als diAll will be applied to pleasure vehicles automobile to designers predict forecasting a light yet powerful car which will require only about ane one gallon of gasoline every 35 or 40 miles on the sea too on the sea also the war effort is providing amazing new inventions applicable to the country count rys peacetime pe ce pattern of living TU the united n item states has elpe experimented W with ith an all aluminum destroyer which they believe will cut through the water at 52 knots an hour f t designers declare that the use of aluminum in boat construction maywell may well be the forerunner of high speed passenger transport ships faster than anything previously dreamed of row and sail boats so light that a halt half grown boy cancar ry one acre across s country and fleet pleasure craft that will rival in water the speed of their automotive cousins on land undoubtedly will make their appearance in the postwar era at prices within reach of the american in the i smaller maller income bracket describing the postwar post war house which americans American may be occupying ten years from now norman bel geddes ge daei who designed the Futura ma at the th new york worlds fair pictures a prefabricated house which I a crew of sl sli men could erect in hi one v eight hour day with s kiich u c h a house a family might well eat dinner in a home that had been no more than a pile of materials the same morning we have all the techniques and faculties facilities to build houses such as I 1 have ha ve described 1 I says mr bel geddes des today we have an opportunity to change over from old fash I 1 cloned 10 lo ned and costly methods to the modern modem mass production way of building better i hornes homes at lower cost he estimates that at least 2 new housing units will be r required e after the war T still another mo noted led american architect ct walter darwin teague declares s that ithac we behave have only to apply to td homebuilding home building the same techniques of design manufacture and selling that tha ahava provided one motor moter car for every four people inthe united states to produce a ty type pe ofa of home which will be within reach of the man rn an in the very low income bracket mr teague has designed a house to sell for 1000 to 2000 which can can be rearranged evea even when occupied a as to size and floor plan almost as easily as one changes the furniture in a room the teague house not on lycan be enlarged or reduced in size itt at the owners will but also can be moved from one building site to another such a factory fabricated house he says win will compare with present day houses as bi a modern automobile compares combar es with anold an ald fashioned buggy if the owner i of such a house discovers that his job necessitates a move across the continent he will simply take the house down calala aw a truck and have th ehouse transport edito his hew place of residence if after six or eight years he wants a I 1 new n ew house he will trade in his old one just as he does his automobile mobile another architect who has been studying study ing postwar post pot war wai housing problems william hamby urges that for be itter better hying the postwar post war home hoffie must be improved tor for theone the one who ihas the most to do the woman in n a it house planned to take the drudge rudger d rv out qt housekeeping of 1 I mr hamby abolishes the usual katche kitchen n arid and substitutes a streamlined and beautified unit so planned that while the homemaker gets dinner she can also participate in the fam ilys activities tivi tivit ties les |