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In this article, the author ponders on the issue of working hours in the U.S. in 1940. He presents a scenario wherein the schedule of the sales manager and his company president would not permit them to set an appointment to discuss business matters. He states that professionals should learn not only to budget their money but also their time.

The article presents comments on major developments as of July 4, 1912. The national convention at Baltimore, Maryland, of the Democratic Party of the U.S. could have been made far more endurable for all concerned if business hours had been insisted upon. At least, a vigorous chairman could have prevented the carrying of banners, and notified the balconies that they would be cleared if any interference were attempted, while an agreement among the leaders of delegations would have prevented delegates from attempting to stampede the convention.

The article focuses on the promotional method of Hans Stern of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which has built a 20-million dollar business marketing Brazilian gems. It says that Stern persuaded a Rio socialite to wear a matching set of his necklace and ring to overcome the conviction of Brazilian that diamonds, rubies, and emeralds were the only gems worth owning. Moreover, the business hours of Stern are taken up with public relations including sponsoring art shows and cocktail parties for authors.

The article reports that out-of business- hours hobby is a better tonic for the digestion and for general relaxation from worry than is any other way of occupying leisure time. It mentions that Paul H. Davis of Paul H. Davis and Company, stock brokers, goes in strongly for the outdoor, back-to-nature life. It presents information on A. W. Harris, chairman of Harris Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago.

The author argues that a good executive does not overwork, adding that an executive who works overtime in his office is a sign of a lack of proper executive ability. The author expresses his belief that an executive who gets tangled up in actual work often forgets to plan. He thinks that executives should be expected to perform their job under normal circumstances and within normal business hours for an organization to be efficient and reliable.

At the end of business hours this week, the New York Stock Exchange will have been closed for three weeks. This is much the longest consecutive suspension of business in its history. During the panic of 1873, the exchange shut down in the middle of the day's business on September 20, 1914, it opened at the usual hour on September 30, and that was the "record" until 1914. During this present three weeks' silence of the stock market, since July 30, 1914, there have been momentous happenings, and by no means all of them were in the category of war news It is a problem of more than mere hypothetical interest, how stock market prices would have moved in response to each of them, for some day, the New York Stock Exchange must reopen.

The article reports that restrictions on business hours of retail outlets in Canada will likely be imposed on October 1, 1942.

The author replies to the article "Business Women I Have Met" in the November 2, 1918 issue. She considers how businessmen feel when they enter a woman's office, how businesswomen are expected to look and act during business hours, and why businesswomen wear "strictly tailored" clothes. She argues that for men to take women seriously in business, they must cease to expect boudoir effects in an office.