Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week Imperial Airways Ltd. announced that it would reduce the time of the London-India run from four days to two-and-one-half days, the London-Australia from eleven days to nine. This means that any Sunday or Thursday during the year a traveler may climb into an Empire flying boat at Southampton, swish a mile over its land locked harbor, take off for the outposts of British rule. If the traveler, raincoated against England's chilly mist, has his luggage marked "Australia," he will slip between the Alps in the afternoon, dine in Rome, sleep that...
...Francisco in 1928 the China Toggery & Joe Shoong Co., Inc., with 16 dry goods stores in California and the West, was renamed National Dollar Stores, Ltd. Now there are 37 National Dollar Stores, one as far east as Kansas City. Despite their name, they sell such things as women's dresses for as much as $4.95. They are moderately profitable: Last year, on sales of $7,000,000, profit was about $170,000. Main thing that distinguishes them from competitors like J. C. Penney Co. is that they are entirely run and largely owned by Chinese. Some...
...from two to five miles for a breakfast appetizer, speaks phonograph-taught French. As plain John Cadman, he devoted his life to coal, gas and oil, spent twelve years' professorship of mining and petroleum technology at Birmingham University before he became head of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Ltd. and was raised to the peerage. When a British M.P. last year accused the Government-backed Imperial Airways of being "the laughing stock of the world," Lord Cadman was named as a disinterested layman to head a committee of inquiry into all civil aviation...
From Dec. 1 to mid-February the committee held 30 meetings, heard 50 witnesses, devoted most of its time and most of its 85-page report to Imperial Airways Ltd. Excerpt: "There is not today a medium sized airliner of British construction comparable to the leading foreign types. Foreign manufacturers, American in particular, dominate the European market. . . . Management has been defective . . . intolerant of suggestion, unyielding in negotiation. Air services to the West Indies and across the Pacific are an uncontested monopoly of an American Company" [Pan American Airways...
...with air-conditioned public rooms, she is specifically designed for competition with such U. S. ships as the Washington and Manhattan. Because of an elaborate gymnasium she will be publicized in England as the "fitness ship." To keep the name Mauretania in the family, her owners, Cunard White Star Ltd., transferred it to a small pleasure steamer operating between Southampton and the Isle of Wight while the big new vessel was abuilding. Like other ships of subsidized British lines, the Mauretania's specifications are Admiralty-approved so that she can serve during hostilities as a swift auxiliary war vessel...