Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the directors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Co., Ltd., obtained as their compendium's editor-in-chief able James Louis Garvin, longtime editor of the London Observer and in the late Lord Northcliffe's opinion "the greatest living journalist" (TIME, April 26, 1926), the publishing world knew that something striking might happen to the Patriarch of the Library. Editor Garvin's selection was encouraged by U. S. representatives and the American Advisory Board, with Franklin Henry Hooper of New York as American Editor, was given new freedom...
...last week surprised fellow brokers by offering to the public stock of Ford companies in Germany, Denmark, France. These foreign Ford shares had been considered almost unobtainable over here. Especially surprising were the German and Danish offerings, since 60% of German Ford is held by Ford Motors Co., Ltd., of England, and nearly all the remainder by I. G. Farbenindustrie. Less than 7% of Danish Ford shares were offered to the public in Denmark and Holland...
...event that started the dream was a great communications merger in England, the formation of Cables & Wireless Ltd., the stock of which was traded in for the first time last month. Into that merger the British poured four great cable systems (including one government-owned), the government beam wireless system and the great British Marconi Co. The merger has a huge liquid capital. It owns cable and wireless systems which girdle the globe...
...Through 36 Liggett Canadian stores and the controlled Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., with 800 English stores...
Cyril Tolley, British amateur golf champion, contended that an advertisement containing a caricature of him making "a poor stroke before a smiling caddy with a packet of a well-known brand of chocolates protruding from his pocket," was an aspersion on his amateur status. J. S. Fry Sons, Ltd., the chocolate makers, replied that Cabinet ministers (and Charles Spencer Chaplin) had been shown in the same series and had not sued. Golfer Tolley retorted: "Cabinet ministers are professionals." The Court agreed, awarded him $5,000 damages. This verdict encouraged attorneys for Helen Wills, who protested the use of her picture...