- The New Yorker (August 1934)A commercially stable formula for the entertainment of 125,000 people.
- Introducing Duke Ellington (Fortune; August 1933)...who grosses $250,000 a year with Mood Indigo and the Cotton Club Stomp.
- A 3-part series on the life and death of Ivar KreugerThis three-part series by the poet Archibald MacLeish describes the life, career, and suicide of Ivar Kreuger, one of the great Wall Street swindlers.
- Russia I: The Soviet StateParadise is neither here nor immediately hereafter. Work. Money. The terrible straining for success.
- Housing: The NeedCross section of a country in which half the homes fall below minimum standards of health and decency ... in which city slums are the worst in the world ... in which the building industry is bogged, bound, and helpless.
- $6,000,000,000Is the nation's annual Christmas bill. This year, it may have a special meaning.
- Fortune Prospectus, September 1929, Volume One, Number ZeroThe following is a letter written by Time co-founder Henry Luce to advertisers in September 1929 proposing a new magazine called Fortune. It was included in a prototype issue, “Volume One Number 0.” The first official issue of Fortune, dated February 1930, followed soon after. Men who advertise are forever seeking the ideal medium for […]
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