Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week as a starter for her Coronation trousseau, royal Elizabeth ordered 26 frocks and evening cloaks from Norman Hartnell, Ltd., then stepped out with King George VI to the first play they have "done" since His Majesty's accession: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, a slick crook play which had its Manhattan premiere last week...
Early each morning from a slinky Rolls-Royce that glides up to a dingy row of buildings on London's Long Acre, there steps a sandy-haired, neat, London-born Jew, 67-year-old Julius Salter Elias, chairman and managing director of Odhams Press Ltd. He is the most diligent figure in Britain's newspaper world. In his silver-&-black modernistic office he works 16 hours on weekdays, eight on Sundays. Every night at 10 he telephones his press superintendent to get last-minute details of headlines, pictures, stories. Austerely aloof, this lone wolf of Fleet Street...
Died. Patrick Burns, 81, millionaire Alberta rancher, board chairman of P. Burns & Co., Ltd. (meatpackers) which he sold in 1928 for $15,000,000; in Calgary. In 1878 he tramped 160 miles from Winnipeg to Tanner's Crossing where he staked out a homestead, sold his first two cows to the late railroad-builder Sir William Mackenzie...
...London, Western Clock Co., makers of Big Ben alarm clocks, of La Salle, Ill., was enjoined from advertising its products in Britain as "made by makers of Big Ben" upon the complaint the of E. Dent & Co., Ltd., which made famed Big Ben atop the Houses of Parliament, named upon completion in 1858 for Commissioner of Works Sir Benjamin Hall...
Said London's Brandeis, Goldschmidt & Co. Ltd. in their annual Metal Report: "It is generally acknowledged that the rise of copper in recent months was largely brought about by purchases, speculative and otherwise, in anticipation of a greatly increased demand for military purposes...