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...Blond, begoggled James Lorimer Ilsley, Canadian Finance Minister, brought in his so-called "baby budget." which the House of Commons promptly passed. No baby, the budget slapped an immediate embargo on some $50,000,000 worth of annual imports from the U. S. Samples: automobiles, oysters, tobacco, comic strips, fiction magazines, silk fabrics. Other imports, such as trucks and petroleum products, it admits in limited quantities by special permit until Canada feels she can do without them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Hard Realities | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...Short, blond, athletic-looking, 21-year-old Burton Griffin works by night in the stock room of Vega's Burbank (Calif.) plant, goes to bed with the dawn. One morning last week young Griffin couldn't sleep; a wild idea chased through his mind. Finally it drove him to put on his clothes, hustle off to the plant to tell his boss. Soon 1,500 questioned employes of Lockheed-Vega voted to put it in practice. The idea: "I got to thinkin' about Christmas and about all those bombers we're making for the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Spirit of Lockheed-Vega | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...kept out by a 4? tariff; since Chilean copper is priced in U. S. ports at 10? a pound, it cannot compete with domestic when domestic is less than 14?. First to plump for tariff reduction in the present emergency was one of the trade's stanchest Willkiemen, blond, conservative Fabricator C. Donald Dallas of Revere Copper and Brass, Inc. On the very September day that Wendell Willkie spoke against low copper prices in Anaconda's Butte, Fabricator Dallas spoke for a 12? ceiling in order to head off an inflationary spiral. He advised dropping the tariff altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: METAL: A Crucial Deal in Copper | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...millions of cinemaddicts who "ohed" and "ahed" over the brilliant colors in Gone With the Wind were admiring the first Technicolor job by the perfectionist of the cinematographers, tall, blond, rosy-cheeked Ernest Haller. At 44, Ernie Haller has 17 years' experience and 80 pictures behind him but still frets and fumes over details with a wad of gum in his mouth, always complains about his results. Now earning $800 a week at Warner Brothers, Haller's single Technicolor experience with G. W. T. W. has won him recognition as the dean of the field. Like most photographers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Picture Man's Picture | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...Connecticut's big swing to Franklin Roosevelt was too much for its bland, blond Republican Governor Raymond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES: Governors | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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