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...past four years have murdered 3,000 deshmukhs and government supporters,burned hundreds of houses and thousands of tons of rice. Nehru's government abolished yetti, but the police were not above using a little yetti themselves. They seized the peasants' poultry and goats, "requisitioned" their bullock carts. Many peasants turned to the Communists...
After Los Angeles' huge Bullock's Inc. department store took over I. Magnin & Co. six years ago, oldtime customers complained that the elegance of the Magnin stores had become tarnished. In the seven-store chain, which for years had been the leader of the West Coast fashion trade, service slipped and customers got the feeling that nobody cared whether they bought anything...
...Magnin's, which last year accounted for 30% of Bullock's $106 million gross, President Escobosa will be strictly his own boss, running the chain from his San Francisco headquarters as a separate entity from the parent company. He plans to go slow with changes at first, stick closely to Magnin's long tradition of elegant good taste and high fashion. "However," says he, "don't get the idea that I'm some kind of long-haired merchant. I'm not just interested in chiffons and brocades. I'm here to build...
...wide. A superblock is designed to house 5,000 people, includes a central area with elementary schools, playgrounds and parks, and a shopping center. Three superblocks make up a district, with the high schools, swimming pool and auditorium for the district in the center superblock. Only footpaths, bicycle and bullock-cart paths cross the superblocks: all bus, truck and automobile traffic goes around them; for direct traffic to the capitol from outside the city, two wide highways, called greenways, run from end to end of the city. A rivulet running through the valley will be dammed...
...this move Ed Carter hopes to step out ahead of other West Coast retailers. Though Broadway's gross was down 5.6% in 1949, its net of $1,243,202 was up 7.3%. Ed Carter hopes to move them both up this year. His next objective: to pass Bullock's, which rang up $106 million in sales last year...