25 shares of Bio Cal bought at $4 tested the absolute bottom at 1/4. 30 shares of La Maur bought at $35 1/2 declined to $16 1/8. 30 shares of Neptune Motors dropped from $33 1/2 to $13 1/4. The repercussions of these results had an immediate and violent impact on two male groups. First, the husbands. Many gave up smoking. Some counted their calories. Most moderated their drinking habits. All were determined not to die until concrete evidence suggested that their wives were farther up the investment learning curve than these initial results suggested. The other male group that was terrified by the initial results was the chief executives of those companies in the portfolio. To have your shares selected for purchase by The Monday Marginals was the equivalent of a death sentence for continued independent corporate existence. Neptune was taken over by Wheelerbrator Technology. La Maur was digested by Dow Chemical. Bio Cal was absorbed by Bio Rad which had a limited capacity for digestion. Some even tried to escape by changing their names but this stratagem did not assure survival. Peabody Gallion, another early acquisition, changed its name to Peabody International which merged into Pullman which merged into Wheelabrator Fry which changed its name to Wheelabrator 2