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...currently opening discount branches, sometimes under different corporate names so that customers will not demand equal bargains in the parent stores. And virtually all traditional department stores are rapidly borrowing many of the discounters' methods. Old-line retailers such as Boston's Jordan Marsh and Detroit's J. L. Hudson Co. vow that "we will not be undersold," and match discounters' prices for specific items. On the theory that shoppers delight in the adventure of picking out their own merchandise. Manhattan's Macy's and the nationwide Federated Department Stores group have added self...
...Marsh: "This is the first step toward nationalization of all transportation...
...some years ago. A few British restaurants serve coypu (whose taste resembles veal), thoroughly disguised as "Argentine hare." But the coypu's only real enemy is England's furious farmer who, prevented by law from using poison-which would also kill off harmless animal life-prowls the marsh with trap and gun. "There's no trouble catching them," says E. A. Ellis, secretary of the Norfolk Naturalists' Trust. "The coypu is mentally slow. Once caught he just waits for death, not fighting but moaning. In one area we killed 40,000. But that's only...
...hearing in San Francisco, Ernest S. Marsh, normally soft-spoken president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, denounced the rival Southern Pacific for its attempt to take over the lucrative little Western Pacific which Marsh wants for the Santa Fe. A Southern Pacific-Western Pacific combination, charged Marsh, "would not even be in keeping with a plan to consolidate Western railroads into as few as two competing systems." Echoed Western Pacific's own President Frederic B. Whitman: if the ICC approved the SoPac's plans, "they would do it on the basis that a rail monopoly...
Leverett House: John S. Anderson, Roger C. Wolf, Peter C. Goldmark, Laurence H. Tribe, Arthur I. Richards, Michael L. Cheroutes, Henry B. Marsh, Jonathan O. Silverman...