Word: winnett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure that its money goes where it will do the most good, the motion-picture industry five years ago set up a Permanent Charities Committee composed of representatives of all guilds, unions and other industry groups. . . . Hollywood's record for giving [was] termed by P. G. Winnett, campaign chairman, Los Angeles area War Chest, "an exceptional one" and "a convincing example for less civic-minded groups...
...Bullock Ideal. In its own way, Bullock's has built up as impeccable a name, plus a much bigger volume. Started by two 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...
Wing-collared, boutonniered John Bullock, who died in 1933, originated "The Bullock Ideal": a service-first set of rules that starts with ". . . a business that will never know completion. . . ." But diminutive, 62-year-old "P. G." Winnett, now president and principal stockholder (to the extent of around 30%) turned the ideal into a merchandising fact. It was P. G. who started the Magnin merger talks, which he and Grover Magnin settled in less than an hour...
...left for weeks in a cellar . . . but so long as the plaster holds he will come to no harm." French surgeons in the War of 1870 pioneered the plaster closed method and in World War I it was used to some extent by U. S. Army Surgeon Hiram Winnett Orr, now of Lincoln, Neb., who contributed a preface to Dr. Trueta's book, Treatment of War Wounds And Fractures (Hoeber...