The Press: New Era

Last week subscribers to FORTUNE could study that magazine's bold free-hand portrait of the U. S. Ten years ago the first issue of the magazine went to a handful of charter subscribers; through the following 120 months FORTUNE editors investigated and wrote about businesses flourishing or under the weather, U. S. citizens sanguine or depressed. To celebrate its first ten years, FORTUNE took on its biggest job—to size up the U. S., to sum up its decade's experience.

Result is a big, handsome issue of twelve articles (100,000 words). 135 photographs, one map, nine...

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