<p><span class="deck"> “57 VARIETIES” WAS ONLY A SALES SLOGAN, BUT H. J. HEINZ UNDERSTOOD FROM THE START THAT THERE WAS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR HONEST PRODUCTS AND WELL-TREATED WORKERS</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">How the colossus of the “social expression industry” always manages to say it better than you do</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> J<span class="typestyle"> ohn Wenrich’s original drawings of Rockefeller Center helped attract tenants in the middle of the Depression. Fifty years later they survive as talismans of a golden moment in American architecture</span> . </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Twentieth-century answers to that question have much less to do with the health and happiness of the retiree than we have been led to believe</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Solid-gold coins were legal tender for most of the nation's history. In their brilliant surfaces we can see our past fortunes.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">71 years ago, a designer working frantically to meet a deadline for the Coca-Cola Company produced a form that today is recognized on sight by 90 percent of the people on Earth.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The urge to create literature was as strong in the mid-1800s as it is today, but rejections were brutal and the pay was even worse.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">It was born in America, it came of age in America, and, in an era when foreign competition threatens so many of our industries, it still sweetens our balance of trade.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> While New York families were spending fortunes inherited from fathers and grandfathers, the Chicago rich had to start from scratch, both making and lavishly spending money within one generation</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">It began with a few people trying to get hamburgers from grill to customer quicker and cheaper. Now. it’s changed the way Americans live. And ,whether you like it or hate it, once you get on the road, you’ll eat it.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">All through the 1920s, eager young emigrants left the towns and farms of America and headed for New York City. One of them recalls the magnetism of the life that pulled him there.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Why do you need so much money to be rich nowadays? It’s a question that historians and readers of history have always found difficult to answer.</span></p>
<p>He excelled at business and made Macy's highly profitable. But Nathan Straus was even better at giving away his earnings to help people in need.</p>
<p><span class="deck">For 200 years, the United States patent system has protected, enriched, and befuddled inventors. As a tool of corporate growth in a global economy, it is now more important than ever.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> As long as there have been bankers and brokers, there have been people asking what would happen if they had to earn an honest living</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> A tribute to the brash confections our car makers offered the world during a decade when not one American in a thousand had even heard the name Toyota</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">Americans invented the grand hotel in the 1830s, and, during the next century, brought it to a zenith of democratic luxury that makes a visit to the surviving examples the most agreeable of historic pilgrimages.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">You’ve probably never heard of them, but these ten people changed your life. Each of them is a big reason why your world today is so different from anyone’s world in 1954.</span></p>
