Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over Sea. From July to end of October U. S.-owned Pan American Airways, British-owned Imperial Airways, Ltd. and German-owned Deutsche Lufthansa have flown big, new airplanes 26 times over the North Atlantic, piled up 90,000 miles of ocean flight. Weakest of nations in 1937's international bid for future U. S.-Europe air business has been France. Following the abandonment of the Paris-sponsored mass race over the Atlantic in May and the failure of Portugal to reply to France's request for permission to use the Azores, not one French airplane attempted...
...Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt, having been denied space in Grand Central Palace because American Bantam Car Co. has not been in production a year. Practically the same size, but better streamlined and twice as powerful as the ill-fated American Austin (now defunct, though Austin Motor Co. Ltd. still prospers in Europe), the Bantam is being made in the old Austin plant at Butler, Pa. under the leadership of a onetime Austin salesman named Roy Samuel Evans who has had a genuine Horatio Alger career (see p. 63). Made up as coupé, roadster or truck, the Bantam...
...business which Johnny Torrio went into and later sold was a firm named Prendergast Davies Co., Ltd. which then specialized in acquiring Government revenue tax stamps, putting them on cut whiskey. Aware in April 1936 that the Government was investigating his affairs, Johnny Torrio blandly decided on another trip to Italy, applied for a passport. When he went to the White Plains, N. Y. post office to get the decoy registered letter which the Government mailed to him, he was popped into jail. When bail was set at $100,000, his wife produced it in cash from her handbag...
...trade-names as Colman's Mustard, Huntley & Palmer's Biscuits, Jacob's Biscuits. Three families, the Cadburys, Frys and Rowntrees, made fortunes in the chocolate business. Among delegates in Philadelphia last week were Barrow Cadbury, a fox-bearded little man who was chairman of Cadbury Bros., Ltd. until five years ago, and his wife Geraldine, a Dame of the British Empire who told reporters: "I put 'D' on my cards but I wouldn't like to be called Dame." Energetic Joan Fry of the Bristol chocolate-making family was present, but B. Seebohm Rowntree...
...prospector and promoter named Gilbert LaBine, who had started a company called Eldorado Gold Mines Ltd., was driving his dogsled across the frozen surface of Canada's Great Bear Lake, which is cut by the Arctic Circle. He spotted a vein of curious, glossy stuff which looked something like anthracite coal, with gleams of yellow, pink and green, recognized it as pitchblende. Surveys and assays showed that the deposit was rich and copious. In 1933 a refining plant was completed at Port Hope on Lake Ontario, 3,500 miles away. The Great Bear Lake find broke the Belgian monopoly...