EXHIBIT EX-24

                              POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS:

          Each of the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints BURTON E.
BROOME, CHRISTOPHER M. McLAIN and ROBERT D. MYERS and each of them with power
to act alone, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her
name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign (either manually or
electronically through the EDGAR System of the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission) the 1993 Annual Report on Form 10-K for Transamerica
Corporation and any and all amendments thereto, and to file the same, together
with exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto such attorney-in-fact full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite
and necessary to be done in and about the premises hereof, as fully to all
intents and purposes as he or she might do or could do in person, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact or his substitutes may
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

          Executed on the 17th day of March, 1994.


GLENN A. CRAMER                    R. F. O'BRIEN
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Glenn A. Cramer                    Raymond F. O'Brien


MYRON DU BAIN                      CONDOLEEZZA RICE
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Myron Du Bain                      Condoleezza Rice


                                   CHARLES R. SCHWAB
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Sam Ginn                           Charles R. Schwab


J. R. HARVEY                       FORREST N. SHUMWAY
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James R. Harvey                    Forrest N. Shumway


FRANK C. HERRINGER
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Frank C. Herringer                 Peter V. Ueberroth


G. E. MOORE
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Gordon E. Moore