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...HUGH BULLOCK...
...South African named R. H. Harris offered to the British Government the patent rights on his method for exterminating the tsetse fly. The device consists of a dummy bullock with an electric light shining through a hole in its side. When the fly approaches to bite the bullock, it is attracted by the light, enters the dummy, cannot...
...affairs was exactly what able British airmen had expected would come about when the gentlemen of the Air Ministry recently maneuvered Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin into dismissing the only one of its civil servants with a practical grasp of Britain's colossal problems in air rearmament, Sir Christopher Bullock, Permanent Undersecretary of the Air Ministry (TIME, Aug. 17). Now that skilled and outspoken Sir Christopher is out of the way, silky Air Ministry civil servants have been going ahead on a secret program which they call "shadow aircraft engine industry." There is nothing of an engineering nature about this...
During his three days in Washington Hugh Bullock contributed two historical notes to the SEC study. Having suggested that future legislation be confined to banning deals between trusts and trust officials, insuring voting rights to stockholders, guaranteeing "the bright sunlight" of publicity through detailed quarterly reports in standardized form, the well-dressed young banker declared...
...other bit of Bullock history: "In the middle of the summer of 1930, I was talking to former President Coolidge in his little law office in Northampton, Mass. Mr. Coolidge said to me, and I remember his exact words, 'There will be an investigation of investment trusts.' I replied that I would welcome such an investigation...