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Show 12 X FIRM SPREADS lut t WITH 250,000 BID Mm. wor'TTHE millionaire Moores brothers of Littlewoods fame have t in i made a 250.000 cash bid to add Palmers Stores of EP- Hammersmith to the stores side of their 1-2-X set-up. Paris Thev oiler 76s. for each 'aimers share. Fine for old lolders who saw the price down o 13s. 9d. last. year. Not so hot or some market gamblers who iaid up to 92s. 6d. in April on topes ol a super-fat offer. M This is the Moores brothers' Siecond big deal down South. In ff January they bought B. B. ilvans, the Kilburn drapers. f 'rice 700,000. Up again TIPPY. The J. Lyons tea-shop firm shows another 650,000 ;ap in profits to a best-ever ;4,228,000. SDarVi Yet chairman Montague . Jluckstein holds the dividend at CY 21. Reason: Taxes mop up ' tore than the extra earnings hat "ising 170,000 to 1.677,000. Ge" WARMER. Up in Bradford he woollen firms are getting . usicr. Through their banks ? -cnt. 17.516.000 of cheques last lonth. Up 4,564.000 on a year go. |