Word: manly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thanks to the radio, an ordinary man can listen to great music in slippered ease. But to see great art he must risk fallen arches tramping through museums. To bring good painting to the family circle, many a low-priced art book, crammed with color reproductions, has lately been published in the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 23). Another venture in the way of such home museums was put out last week by William H. Wise...
...linoleum producer; rock-ribbed John Howard Pew, president of Sun Oil Co., financial angel of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania; long-nosed Lammot du Pont, beardless patriarch of the U. S.'s most famed family industry; Du Pont-in-law Donaldson Brown, vice chairman, financial and labor policy man of General Motors; the retiring president of N. A. M., courtly Howard Coonley of Walworth Co., whose valve business has not been doing so well in spite of recovery; barrel-chested Utilitarian Wendell Lewis Willkie, foe of TVA; President Clarence Francis, able little-publicized business pundit, and Chairman Colby Mitchell...
...man, however, the deal was a shock. He is short, bald, capable Colonel Charles Edward Speaks, 52, Fisk President, who has increased his firm's business about 65% since he took over in 1936. Almost solely responsible for Fisk's good showing, he wanted to keep his plant going independently and profitably. Says he: "Of course, I'm an operating man, and I don't see any reason why the directors should want to sell...
...going on within Pratt & Whitney's existing plant. Workmen are being hired at the rate of 50 a day. Soon there will be two men at every job-one working, one watching - throughout its 6,000-job plant. This also is a necessary extravagance. For one man at each job is a learner. When the new plant is opened, a trained staff will be ready to march in and begin production at full speed...
Another Thin Man (Myrna Loy, William Powell, C. Aubrey Smith, Sheldon Leonard, Asta; TIME...