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| Cover art by Fred Chance |
Dramatic cover art. WW2 was 2 months old when this was published, though the US had not yet joined in.
Henry Luce, who built a publishing empire in the first half of the last century with Time, Life and Fortune magazines said in Fortunes's first issue in 1930: Business takes Fortune to the tip of the wing of an airplane,and through the depths of the ocean along be-barnacled cables. It forces Fortune to peer into dazzling furnaces and into the faces of bankers. Fortune must follow the chemist to the brink of worlds newer than Columbus found and it must jog with freight cars across Nevada's desert.
Aimed at business leaders, the magazine cost $1 when a Popular Mechanics magazine cost 25¢. It is still being published 90 years later.
Fred Chance was an American illustrator who started working for various top magazines in the 30s. His career spanned 50 years.
Wow, he did a lot of impressive work. Here's one I found that I really like:
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