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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The world of medicine boasts some 6,000 medical journals, almost a tenth of them in the U. S. A major requirement for scientific publication is dullness. All articles in British and U. S. journals are cut to the same hidebound pattern: The problem is stated, its history reviewed (often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: To Throw at the Cat | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

If the U. S. public wants to see Society, it can go to the opening of the opera. If it wants to see movie stars, it can hang on the ropes at any Hollywood opening. But if it wants to see tycoons, the place to look is at the annual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: In Congress Assembled | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

If the Wall Street Journal had a society editor, she would appreciate that company. There were tough, jut-jawed Steelmaster Ernest Tener Weir, chairman of National Steel, smartest little steelman in the U. S.; sleek, youngish Edgar Monsanto Queeny of Monsanto Chemical, whose dignified diversion is Republican politics (finance committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: In Congress Assembled | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Its sales rose from $10,229,000 in 1934 to an estimated $20,000,000 this year, its net income from a 1935 deficit of $275,000 to an anticipated 1939 profit of $1,000,000. Still, minority stockholders were not satisfied. Once they set up a fuss at their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Fisk to U. S. | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Last week little Franks Manufacturing Co. had better than $200,000 worth of unfilled orders that had piled up in 40 days, an anticipated 1939 gross of $600,000, net of $150,000. Portable derricks seem to be catching on. Humble Oil Co. has ordered an initial two. If enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Derrick's End? | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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