American Decades
"Over the Top"
Magazine article
By: Time
Date: December 6, 1954
Source: "Over the Top." Time, December 6, 1954, 102–103.
About the Publication: Time was founded in April 1923 by Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden. By 1927, it was selling over 175,000 copies every week. The magazine's conservative tone originally matched that of its owner, and as a result, it was favorable toward the Republican Party. Over three thousand weekly issues later, however, it has become more liberal. Currently, it boasts a weekly circulation of 4 million in the United States and 1.4 million internationally.
Introduction
During the economic heyday of the 1920s, the American stock market reached its peak on September 3, 1929, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) closed at 381.17 points, its highest level yet. At that time, this number—an average of certain leading stocks on...
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1950's Business and the Economy Primary Sources
- "Battle Over Television: Hollywood Faces the Fifties: Part II"
- Inflation
- "Television's Big Boom: Still to Come"
- "Over the Top"
- "What the Public Thinks About Big Business"
- "How to Make a Billion: Fables of Texas Oil"
- "Consumer Credit: High But Safe"
- "The South Bets on Industry"
- "Convention Expels Teamsters"
- "Why the Edsel Laid an Egg: Research vs. the Reality Principle"
- "The 'Invisible' Unemployed"
- "It's a Smaller World"
- "The Challenge of Inflation"
- "Success by Imitation"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
