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After lingering nine days, haggard, platinum-blonde Raven Sherman, heroine of Terry and the Pirates, died of injuries in the Chinese mountains. At Chicago's Loyola University some 200 students faced the east, stood with heads bowed in memoriam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Fortunes of War | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...sustaining the contention that there has been monopolization by Alcoa." Systematically, he had divided the case into 36 sections, each of which must be ruled on before he can make the final decision: whether to break Alcoa up. Three branches of law are involved: tariff law, patent law, the Sherman Act. The Government's charges were in twelve groups, for different branches of the industry: 1) bauxite; 2) water power; 3) alumina; 4) virgin aluminum, pig and ingot; 5) castings; 6) cooking utensils; 7) pistons; 8) extrusions and structural shapes; 9) foil; 10) miscellaneous fabricated articles; 11) sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALUMINUM: Judge Caffey Says It's Legal | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...virgin aluminum: Despite Alcoa's admitted 100% control, the company has not monopolized the metal within the meaning of the Sherman Act. It competes with imported foreign metal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALUMINUM: Judge Caffey Says It's Legal | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...instance: "Umbrella Mike" Boyle. During the lush war years, Mike collected thousands of dollars in "insurance premiums" for guaranteeing that his Chicago electrical workers would not strike. He served two months (on a year's sentence) in the clink for conspiring to break the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. But last week he was still running the Chicago electrical workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Holdup Men of Labor | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...chemical elements of the blood, such as calcium and the lipids [fats], show no appreciable change with age, in contrast to the known alteration of the chemical content of the tissues, especially the arteries." One way to forestall aging, some chemists suspect, is a judicious diet. Dr. Henry Clapp Sherman of Columbia found that when rats were given increased amounts of either calcium or riboflavin (vitamin 62) or vitamin A, senility was deferred and they lived longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Infant Science of Old Age | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

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