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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the California scientists announced artificial production of the hormone. When tested on bruised potato tubers, "traumatic acid" (from the Greek trauma meaning wound) "was found to be identical with the natural product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wounded Beans | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Last week, K. T. Keller was busiest in the engineering department where Chrysler's smart research staff is already busy on 1941 models. It is there the first work is done on K. T. Keller's only recipe for a successful business: "Put out a good product: if it's lousy, you better quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTORS: K.T. | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...this realistic philosophy, to a pragmatic genius which stems from the machinist's bench and burgeons in a burning urge to put out a good product in quantity for low-priced sale, the U. S. motor industry owes its spectacular growth in the U. S. Most of its topflight executives, men like Ford, Chrysler, Knudsen and Keller, had nothing but their two hands and a kit of tools when they went to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTORS: K.T. | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Pally, hands-&-knees Uncle Don has a club in which not only Sistie & Buzzie Dall but Shirley Temple are members, and full membership is earned by sending in for tokens of every product Uncle Don plugs. One season he plugged 14, and full-fledged members eventually cost their parents a pretty penny. But parents tolerate him because he inveighs against such social errors as nail biting, gulping, temper, socking, preaches a series of corrective little stories involving two hypothetical and unruly tikes named Willapuss-Wallapuss and Suzan-Beduzin. Somehow all this is as beguiling to children as bubblegum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Snork, Punk | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...talkiest medium, CBS has had a staff of reporter-linguists listening day & night to Europe's radio since the first days of World War II. Main idea has been to enable CBS's home commentators to sort news from propaganda for radio listeners. But the by-product has been an increasing sheaf of notes, observations, comparisons, verbatim broadcasts which, by themselves, constitute a fairly complete documentation of the technique of war propaganda, as practiced by World War II's experts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fourth Front | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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