Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excessively sly, he might have written to the American Code Co., 206 Broadway, Manhattan, commissioning Master Codist Frederick Ainsworth Hall to prepare a private code for Pancake messages. Codist Hall, secretary to Lord Roberts during the Boer War, onetime (1919-21) expert for Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd., would have devised a code similar in size to the Commercial Cable Code, charge about $1,000 for 1,000 copies...
Workpeople who have been employed 40 years by the Imperial Tobacco Co. Ltd. of Bristol, England, are sent to sit for their portraits in oils and these are hung in the corporation's Hall of Honor...
Crackers, Cookies. National Biscuit Co., world's largest biscuit makers, announced that plans were virtually completed for it to acquire control of Christie, Brown & Co., Ltd., biggest makers of crackers, cookies, cakes and puddings in Canada. Basis of the deal: one share of National Biscuit common stock for two shares of Christie, Brown common...
Paper. Kimberly-Clark Co. manufactures rotogravure paper for 80% of the newspapers and magazines in North and South America, also controls the Spruce Falls Power & Paper Co., Ltd. (50% of its production is for the N. Y. Times). Last week, the two companies were reorganized under the name of the Kimberly-Clark Corp...
Died. Sir David Yule, 69, "richest Scotch merchant," widower parent of Miss Gladys Yule, 24, to whom he leaves 20 million pounds; at London. Son-in-law of the late Andrew Yule of Calcutta, India, Sir David prodigiously expanded the firm of Andrew Yule & Co., Ltd., and founded 80 adidtional firms in which he retained controlling interest. In 1926 he contributed largely to an unselfish syndicate of liberals who purchased the Daily Chronicle from David Lloyd George at a price which netted the Welshman $14,500,000 profit and under an agreement whereby Liberal Lloyd George still controls the policy...