Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Asbestos Corporation Ltd., which Mr. Dillon has just organized, is the concern that the Federal District Attorney at Manhattan, Charles R. Tuttle, considers a combination in restraint of trade and which he wants broken up. His reasons: Three companies-Canadian Johns-Manville Co. Ltd., Quebec Asbestos Corp. Ltd. (a subsidiary of Philip Carey Mfg. Co. of Ohio) and the Keasby Mattison-control 80% of the world's supply of that fibrous-like rock called asbestos; those companies agreed to sell all their output for five years to one of Mr. Dillon's smart young men, duVal R. Goldthwaite...
Rayon (artificial silk*) means ray in French. Last week, Courtaulds, Ltd.† world's largest rayon manufacturers, estimated to control 80% of the world's trade, declared a 100% stock dividend, nominally worth ?12,000,000 and a 25% cash dividend, tax free, for the year...
...mind-moulding power of the British newspaper trusts. "An alarming situation is developing!" rapped Scot MacDonald, and many listened because he leads the second largest British parliamentary party: Labor. What had ruffled Laborite MacDonald, it shortly appeared, was the formation last week of a new news trust: "Northcliffe Newspapers, Ltd...
...Dictator Pangalos got together, last week, another Cabinet. It is the old one of Prime Minister Alexander Zaimis, re-formed to exclude Alexander Papanastasiou-which means nothing. The Cabinet has merely been reshuffled to allay strife over whether certain projected roads shall be built in Greece by Samkros Bros., Ltd. of London or by Fox Bros. of Berlin. Presumably Fox Bros. have lost, since their proponent was the ousted M. Papanastasiou...
...Case Plow Works, incorporated in 1876 at Racine, Wis., grew to be a $1,000,000 company, employing 600 persons. Last week it was bought by Massey Harris Co. Ltd., of Toronto...