A Look Back: FORTUNE’s July 1940 Issue

Leadership A Look Back: FORTUNE’s July 1940 Issue In July 1940, the fireworks were the deadly kind, bombs bursting in air across Europe and North Africa. Much of the world, though not yet the United States, was at war. Royal Navy battleships

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Photography See Photos of Campbell Soup from Fortune’s Archives In 1955, Fortune published its first-ever list of the 500 biggest industrial corporations in the U.S., ranked by annual sales. Coming in at number 88 was Campbell Soup, the food processing company

Photography Fortune 500 Photo Archives: General Electric In 1955, Fortune published its first-ever list of the 500 biggest industrial corporations in the U.S., ranked by annual sales. Coming in at number four was General Electric, the industrial

Photography See 1940s New York City Through The Eyes of a Fortune Photographer “I am just a simple guy who would rather photograph than eat.” — Todd Webb Todd Webb was a Michigan-born photographer who spent his life photographing everyday existence in New York, the

David Rockefeller During a Meeting in Tokyo, Japan

Finance David Rockefeller’s Fight to Save Chase Bank Editor’s Note: David Rockefeller, a billionaire philanthropist, died on Monday. He was 101. Rockefeller was from one of America’s most famous gilded age families. But he was also a very

Leadership The Man Who Sold Silicon Valley on Giving Editor’s Note: Peter Hero, the pioneering leader of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, died Sunday from cancer. He was 73. Hero was a transformative figure in the tech world, described by

Photography 100 Years of Boeing Photos from the Time Inc. Archives Who knew that Boeing made the first Air Force One? For 100 years, the world’s largest aerospace company has been selling airplanes, rockets, and space capsules to some of the biggest companies all

Finance Goldman Sachs’ House of Junk Editor’s Note: On April 11, Goldman Sachs agreed to a $5.1 billion fine with the Department of Justice for deceiving investors in mortgage bonds. In late 2007, Fortune published, “House

Bill Gates (R), chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft, poses for photographers with And..

Tech Fortune Classic: The Education of Andy Grove Andy Grove, Intel’s legendary co-founder and former CEO, passed away at the age 79 on Monday, according to Intel. The following is a Fortune article from 2005 about how he turned the company

MPW Melinda Gates Goes Public (Fortune, 2008)Editor’s Note: This Fortune classic, from our January 2008 issue, is the first solo profile that Melinda Gates ever agreed to do. The story covers the marvelous gamut of Melinda’s extraordinary

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