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Pg… 8 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Presenting: The $15,000 "Trade Secrets" House
Pg… 17 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A Businessman Leaves for Government Service
Pg… 18 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Brownout in the Northwest
Pg… 20 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: An Honest Witness Against the Rackets is Guarded
Pg… 22 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: 87 Homeward–Bound Servicemen Perish in World's Worst Air Disaster
Pg… 16 EDITORIAL: What Makes the Economy Tick?
Pg… 2 Speaking of Pictures: In a Single Year These Faces and Figures Help to Sell $90 Billion Worth of Goods
Pg… 29 The Reign of Chemistry, Photographed for LIFE by W. Eugene Smith
Pg… 43 The "PBE'S" at Harvard Business School
Pg… 46 What Have We Got Here? by Frederick Lewis Allen
Pg… 59 Portraits of Basic Tools
Pg… 62 More Food for Less Work
Pg… 74 Working Wives
Pg… 78 The Artists Look at U.S. Industry
Pg… 82 Titanium Wheel is Photographed at Two Millionths of a Second
Pg… 84 The Company of Smiling Employees
Pg… 86 Where Do We Go From Here? by the Editors of Fortune
Pg… 94 Money–Makers of a New Era
Pg… 98 Boat Business at High Tide
Pg… 100 LIFE Looks in on Closed–Circuit TV