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...steel." And he had it, from Manhattan's razed Second Avenue elevated railway. But Grumman was still crowded for space. Wildcat and Avenger production was moved into General Motors' Eastern air craft division at Linden, N.J. The pattern which, in effect, made Grumman main purveyor to the Navy had been set. Now all the fighters and torpedo planes on most Navy carriers are Grumman-designed planes. This, more than words, shows what the Navy thinks of Grumman...
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...
...willing to admit, in so many words, that Yank is, objectively approached a morale builder for the masses of the Army; the privates, corporals, and sergeants. But Yank is that; its prime but never outspoken theme is the Glorified Enlisted Man. It also plays the more formal role of purveyor of information to the ranks. McCarthy feels the functions of entertainment and information are divided "fifty-fifty" in his paper...
R.C.A. is the biggest purveyor of music to industrial plants. Next is Muzak, which has long supplied musical transcriptions (by private wire) to restaurants, hotels, apartments. Muzak pipes programs to some firms, also offers installations ($900 and up) which are intended for Muzak's "high-fidelity" transcription discs. Cost of Muzak service: $50 a month. R.C.A. likewise installs turntables, pickups and loudspeakers, supplies record libraries for fees ranging from $250 to $40,000. Records are supplied monthly, in batches of 20 or more...
Died. Dr. Mahlon William Locke, 61, Ontario's famed assembly-line purveyor of arthritis treatments (by foot yanking); of a heart attack; near his home, Williamsburg, Ont. He did most of his work seated in a swivel chair in his yard, whirling around to queues of patients converging on him like the spokes of a wheel. He charged $1 a visit (usually less than a minute), and at the height of his popularity attracted as many as 1,000 patients...