Fortune’s Assistant Managing EditorEdgar P. Smithlaunched the list in 1955, whenFortunewas underTime’s umbrella. It had an early moniker of the “Annual Directory of the 500 Largest Corporations.” In the mid-1950s, the U.S. economy was booming, but after decades of economic strife—inclu...
The U.S. economy, we are told, is booming. 官方的统计数字告诉我们,美国经济正在蓬勃发展。 这句处理得不错。we are told 实际上是指统计数字。 In the past two quarters, gross domestic product has risen by more than 3%, the stock market is soaring and unemployment is down to a 17-year lo...
The economy of the United States after 1952 was the economy of a well-fed, almost fully employed people. Despite occasional alarms, the country escaped any postwar depression and lived in a state of boom. An economic survey of the year 1955, a typical year of the 1950’s, may be typical...
He’s eager to experiment with every new thing that he learns, whether it be a structure of a function or a new word, he immediately starts trying to use it.He’s interested in the mistakes he makes, he’s not afraid to make them.He’s not simply interested in having it corrected a...
That was the title of the 60 Minutes program segment about how the French stay healthy in part by drinking red wine. It helped power a red wine boom in the U.S. Well, it looks like we have another paradox on our hands now as French red wine consumption slip slides away at the same...
On the streets of Buenos Aires, African and European traditions blended into a sexy—and shocking—new dance that eventually became a national treasure.
Meanwhile, the U.S. economy was booming, and Dave was expanding the knife business by introducing Warther Knives to a growing market of discerning American consumers. He eventually incorporated the business under the name the family had been using for more than a decade: E. Warther & Sons ...
When instant cake mixes were introduced, in the 1950s, housewives were initially resistant: The mixes were too easy, suggesting that their labor was undervalued. When manufacturers changed the recipe to require the addition of an egg, adoption rose dramatically. Ironically, increasing the labor ...
In China, the public accounting profession ('the profession' thereafter) emerged in the early twentieth century, primarily to meet the needs of the country's economy at that time. The profession continued to play an active role in the country's economic recovery in the early 1950s following ...
Have a communal economy, i.e., common finances and common property (land, buildings, means of production) Have communal decision making – usually consensus decision making Try to reduce hierarchy and hierarchical structures Have communalization of housework, childcare and other communal tasks Have eq...