Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vickers Ltd. Some time after the meeting between Maria del Pilar and Zaharoff, he strode into the London office of the great munitions firm of Vickers Ltd. If report speaks truth, he asked a single question: "If I am able to procure for your firm the munitions orders of the Spanish Government, will you reward me with a partnership in your establishment, as well as the usual commissions...
...Chairman also of the Dunlop Rubber Co. (and Imperial Airways, Ltd.) in England. In 1923 he was President of the Association of Trade Protection Societies of the U. K.; in 1923-24 of the Federation of British Industries. During the War he gained recognition by putting the British and French railroads on an efficient operating basis...
Televisor. In London, a concern called Television Ltd. obtained licenses to retail the "televisor," a radio device invented by John L. Baird* of Glasgow that permits "looking in" as well as listening in. Broadcasting from a televisor station in London was to begin at once. The receiver, costing £30, consists of a point of light moving swiftly over a revolving field of ground glass. The motion of the point of light is governed by current received from the transmitting station, where the image of an object or person is made to pass over a photo-electric cell at immense...
...Trelawny's Adventures of a Younger Son is ably reviewed. You state, "The book is now republished for the first time since 1890." Incorrect. I have in front of me a small two-volume edition of the book published in Bohn's Popular Library by G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., London, 1914. I like TIME...
...Under the name of Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd...