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...farmers who own the Fruit Growers Supply Co. of Los Angeles celebrated the 100th anniversary of the cooperative movement this week* by buying an entire town. For $10 million the cooperative got not only the jail, the city hall and the utilities of the company town of Westwood, Calif, (pop.: 3.500), but also a sawmill, a veneer plant, a box factory and the railroads-including locomotives and a 20-mile stretch of electrified line. But the Supply Co.'s most important reason for buying the town from the Red River Lumber Co. was to get 100,000 acres...
...share of the "profits." By 1943 the company was manufacturing insecticides and fertilizer as well as selling, and ended the year with gross sales of $13,111,753. With some of their own cash and substantial loans from local banks, they made a $4-million down pay ment on Westwood...
Died. Earle Westwood Sinclair, 70, longtime president of Sinclair Oil Refining Co.; after a heart attack; in Manhattan. While his partner-brother, dashing Harry Sinclair (see above), was bogged down with the trials and tribulations of the Teapot Dome oil scandal, he quietly managed and built their business into one of the world's great oil empires...
...Canadians, John Gillespie Bullock and Percy Glen Winnett, Bullock's rapidly expanded into that burgeoning city's biggest retail business. It now encompasses: 1) "Bullock's Downtown," a 740,000-sq. ft., six-building, quality department store; 2) "Bullock's Wilshire," "Bullock's Westwood" and "Bullock's Palm Beach Springs," which do a damn-the-price clothing business comparable to Magnin...
Name's Chances. The 16th California District (195,434 votes in 1940) includes movie-rich Beverly Hills, Bel Air and Westwood, labor and middle-class groups in Santa Monica, Culver City, western Los Angeles. From his movie friends Will Jr. hopes for campaign speeches, votes and money. He also hopes to capitalize on labor's hate for Leland Ford. It was apoplectic Mr. Ford who suggested concentration camps for labor leaders "guilty of dissension," and last year he sponsored a bill making strikes in defense industries punishable by imprisonment, even death. With a fair record on foreign policy...