Making a Million

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 235, 5 October 1936, Page 12

Making a Million

SEVEN IDEAS FOR IT Ideas worth. 5,000,000 dollars—and more —pour daily into the oflice of one of London’s newspapers, tho Daily Express. Headers send them in. for nothing, ideas which would net them a million British pounds—if they had “just a few hundred pounds and a little moro sparo time to work oil them.’' That is the catch. b Here arc seven of the most interesting ways of “making tho million.” 1. An infallible seasickness antidote. Shipping companies, even more than passengers, would pay for this. Their revenues would leap. 2. A method of .instantaneously seasoning wood. This would savo time and space. It should be done by injecting the tree just before it is eut down. 3. A method of generating rain. Scientists have long been working on this, and “making rain” is a not-too-distant possibility. 4. A cheap and simple method of getting oil direct from coal. Big business has already spent more than £9,000,000 on this without success so far. 5. A metal that is a 100 per cent, perfect electric conductor. That can, so far, only be done in the laboratory. Half the capital of cable companies is in their cables ,aud the perfect conducting metal would save them millions. (5. A motor or engine that will run direct from the power of t>hc explosions of disintegrating atoms. 7. A mechanical method or remembering things on the same system that our brain works, without any card index or file.

There are the ideas. All you have to do now is to figure them out—and collect the millions.