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...Opinion. Two years aborning, this Forum gave U. S. business management the first sounding board against which its total voice could be heard (TIME. Sept. 2). For it FORTUNE persuaded some 15,000 executives to form a permanent panel. Invited were : 1 ) presidents of all firms rated AA1 by Dun & Bradstreet, 2) directors of the biggest 750 U. S. corporations (which own 52% of all corporate assets), 3) all businessmen whose salaries indicated clearly that they play an important part in management. The third installment of this Forum was the most detailed self-portrait for which U. S. business opinion...
Unlike its Survey of Public Opinion, FORTUNE'S Forum of Executive Opinion uses a blanketing instead of a sampling technique. The executives whose opinion FORTUNE invites (mail) are a permanent panel of some 15,000-including: 1) presidents of all firms rated AA1 by Dun & Bradstreet; 2) directors of the 750 biggest U. S. corporations (which own some 52% of all corporate assets); 3) all businessmen whose salaries indicate clearly that they play an important part in management...
Admiral Distance. The Pacific Ocean is 68,634,000 square miles of blue, dun and yellow water; of wastes where almost no life exists; of islands where life, riches, poverty are all superabundant. Biggest of oceans, it is big enough to swallow all the land in the world and still have room to spare. Its distances dwarf any that even big-minded Yankees are used to thinking about: New York is 3,132 miles from San Francisco; Manila is 6,238 miles from San Francisco, 9,393 miles west of Panama...
...dark night last week the M-1 rode at anchor off Dun Laoghaire in Dublin Bay. The crew, except for the watch, were in their bunks. From somewhere among the shadowy pierheads, 20 yards off, a rowboat put softly out, pulled alongside. Three men with the daring of none but I. R. A. itself leaped aboard, and set upon the watch. In the tussle, the watch managed to draw his pistol. As the attackers heaved him overboard, he fired three shots, rousing the sleeping.crew. The marauders fled to their boat, pulled frantically for shore and escaped. Eire's first...
Trustee No. 3 is former Amherst Economist Willard Thorp. Having won his corporate spurs as Director of Economic Research of New York's credit-rating Dun & Bradstreet, he has been winning his public spurs filling in as general think-man at the Department of Commerce. Trustee Thorp's province will be administrative, analytical...