Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suave Edward Charles Grenfell, M.P. from the City of London, and a partner of John Pierpont Morgan (Morgan, Grenfell & Co., London), led the House of Commons' attack on last week's British issue of Ford Motor Ltd. stock...
...Because the reorganized Ford Motor Co. Ltd. of England will give employment to thousands of Britons who need jobs badly, the Labor Party rallied last week to defend Motor Man Ford from the criticisms of Banker Grenfell M.P. Since Fords are everywhere rivaled by General Motor's products; and since J.P. Morgan & Co. of Manhattan have helped to finance General Motors, the Laborites thought that they saw a shrewd opening to flay London's Grenfell M.P. for having flayed Motor Man Ford in the House of Commons...
...week, when Britannia's owners, the Inveresk Pulp & Paper Co., found that the 33 pages of advertising per issue with which the magazine was launched had shrunk to four. Tactful requests that Editor Frankau modify his Lunatic-Fascist policies caused him to apply for an injunction restraining Inveresk Ltd. from interfering with his conduct of their paper. Since the editor had a contract, the only thing to do was buy him off. He held out last week for ?12,000-nearly $60,000-and finally got it. Wherefor the smug airs, the sherry...
...William C. Durant) and Chandler-Cleveland Motors Corp. (possibly controlled by the railroading brothers Van Sweringen), forming a $130,000,000 business; 2) Chrysler Corp. and Commercial Credit Co. (Baltimore), to provide instalment sale systems for Chrysler cars; 3) Humber, Hillman and Commer (British) motor interests, as Humbers, Ltd. Object: competition with U. S. manufacturers. Capital...
...Earl of Birkenhead, Great Britain's retired Secretary of State for India, last week, was appointed a director of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., of which Britain's Chemical Tycoon Baron Melchett is head. Director Lord Birkenhead will receive an annual salary of $10,000 plus one-half of one per cent of the profits. Last year this percentage would have represented more than $100,000, since I. C. I.'s profits were...