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Died. August Heckscher, 92, shrewd, crusty, tufty-bearded, Hamburg-born industrialist and financier who made fortunes in coal and zinc, survived to amass even greater wealth as one of the most active and hardheaded manipulators of New York City real estate, and to distribute an estimated $30,000,000 in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 5, 1941 | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

Canada's war effort last week showed belated signs of shifting into high gear. Into the driver's seat of the important Merchant Shipbuilding and Shipping Program moved Harvey Reginald MacMillan, a harddriving, hardheaded lumberman who believes in getting things done. No business-as-usual fuddyduddy, MacMillan is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Canadian Buzz Saw | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

Celestial Life. "The trend [of scientific thought] can be better judged," says Sherrington, "by comparison of general positions taken a significant interval apart." For contrast with his own views, Sherrington selects those of Jean-Fernel, greatest physician of the 16th Century. In an age obsessed with magic and astrology, hardheaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man and His Mind | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

Three weeks ago it was clear that even hardheaded Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones was impressed. Dr. Hansgirg, asleep in his California home, got a 1 a.m. telephone call from Kaiser: get to Manhattan right away and start drawing up plans. In Manhattan a suite of offices was knocked together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: METALS: Magnesium--Lesson in Speed | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

In three days of general debate 111 members made speeches, some of them many times. The tone had been quiet, generally. Observers noted that, if the 77th is a war Congress, it is unlike every such U. S. Congress heretofore. Nearly every speaker on both sides preened himself on his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: 260-to-165 | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

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