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California's two most famed merchants last week agreed to become one: San Francisco's 68-year-old I. Magnin & Co., the West Coast's haughtiest purveyor of women's wear de luxe,* and Los Angeles' department-store-specialty-shop combine, 37-year-old Bullock's Inc., whose California customers regard it with at least as much reverence as Chicagoans reserve for Marshall Field's. The result will be a $27,000,000 business with twelve stores blanketing the Coast, and combined sales (1943) of $63,000,000, profits...
...Name of Magnin. From a corporate standpoint, Bullock's, with almost three-quarters of the combined gross business, will be top dog. The deal, in which no money changes hands, provides for an exchange of stock (three and a half shares of Magnin's for one of Bullock's), whereby Magnin shares will shortly disappear. Not so the name of Magnin-so long as either its 73-year-old president E. John Magnin or his 57-year-old brother, First Vice President Grover A. (who are also the company's largest stockholders), have anything...
Daley once admired Con the Greyhound for giving the wind a head start and then beating it, and Shaun the Bullock, who could hold himself out at arm's length. But Finn was faster than one, stronger and defter than the other. Concluded Daley: "Bad cess to those who doubt...
...Marines have landed and have the situation well in hand. One of them picked up a hot lead in the lab the other day and let go of the situaiton in a hurry. Lieutenant Bullock, who happened to be nearby, took notes. He is making a survey of the electrical muscular sensitivity of humans in inches per volt. Volunteers to be subjects for his experiments, please see Lieutenant Bullock in his office...
Frank Felbel Goodman (Government), Edward Forbes Greene (Chemistry), James Bullock Hathaway (Government), William Lewis Hewes, Jr. (Economics), Robert Kagan (Area of Social Science), Frederick Franz Maximilian Kempner (Literature), Lewis Miles Krohn (Economics), Neunert Frederick Lang (History), Howard Legum (Economics), Joseph Feder Ronald McCrindle (English), Arthur Gordon Maling (Economics), Merton Roland Nachman, Jr., (Government), David Chester Noyes, Jr. (Engineering Sciences), Howard Longyear Palmer (Area of Social Science...