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Ordinary, anxious citizens could only conclude that in aluminum-for-aircraft, as in many another weedy sector of U. S. defense, the principal bottlenecks wear collars.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aluminum Spot | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

Otherwise, Canterburians (tuition and board: $1,500) lead a normal prep-school existence. On their campus are no priests or monks; 77% of them have gone on to non-Catholic colleges. Headmaster Hume (known to Canterburians as "the Doc") makes them study hard (eight classes a day). Each afternoon a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Canterbury Tale | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

Louis Comfort Tiffany, head man almost until his death in 1933, intensified his father's love for privacy. When the 37th Street store was built in 1905, Tiffany avoided telling anything about his business even to a banker. He paid $2,000,000 cash for the land, $2,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: Tiffany Moves | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

Most Tiffany employes have grown up with the company, revere its name like the family Bible. About half the staff has served more than 25 years. Most start as office boys for five years, then spend ten or more as general clerks, acquiring a knowledge of stones. By the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: Tiffany Moves | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

Redhaired, blue-eyed Bruce Barton, 54-year-old advertising tycoon, made millions selling Americans on reading (Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf); on clean collars (Cluett-Peabody collar ads); on shaving (Gillette); on working (Alexander Hamilton Institute); on Jesus and the Bible (The Man Nobody Knows, The Book Nobody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Barton is Drafted | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

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