∙Every second day another new supermarket opens in Britain, and the average will soon be bettered. Reason: Britain's greatest merchant prince, Sir Isaac Wolfson, 64, has entered the field by merging William Cussons Co. into his Great Universal Stores Ltd. and plans to expand Cussons' present chain of 60 stores to at least 200 supermarkets. The son of poor Polish Jewish immigrants, Sir Isaac (he was made a baronet earlier this year for his large gifts to charity) started work in his father's Glasgow cabinetmaking shop, later set up his own furniture store in London. Picked during the Depression to run...
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