Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...television had become a reality in England, where Farnsworth licensed Baird Television Ltd., and in Germany, where he licensed Fernseh A. G. But though the U. S. was the home of Philo Farnsworth and the adopted home of his sole peer in television, RCA's Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, television remained something U. S. citizens heard much about but seldom saw. Last week the U. S. heard something more about television: after twelve years Philo Farnsworth was to have his own manufacturing company with two factories and over $2,500,000 in cash behind...
...greatest money-makers in the history of the theatre, the Gilbert & Sullivan operas today are finding new ways of striking gold. In Chicago an all-Negro Federal Theatre Mikado, set to swing, has the town by the ears. Last month Britain's G. & S. Films, Ltd. released The Mikado in Technicolor-the first full-length cinema version of a Gilbert & Sullivan opera in history...
...exasperated German copper miners of the early 18th Century called it kupjernickel (copper devil). Canadian Copper Co. felt the same way about nickel until 1902 when it combined with two U. S. companies that owned a nickel-refining process. The combine eventually became The International Nickel Co. of Canada, Ltd., which produces 85% of the world's nickel and made $24,000,000 in 1938's first nine months...
...Prime Minister, was on holiday. Most Britons had forgotten that the Chamberlains had a son; British picture agencies, deluged with requests for his photograph had none. Young Chamberlain has been employed for a year as a $25-a-week apprentice at the Witton plant of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., where he is learning the armament business from the bottom...
HARRY REEVES Story Department Walt Disney Productions, Ltd. Hollywood, Calif...