Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the Townsend Plan had turned out to be only another mean racket, with poor deluded oldsters as its victims, such charges simply made most observers believe that good, grey Dr. Townsend was being used as a front by sharpers who had swarmed into his Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd. First hint that Dr. Townsend was more than a simple, pious figurehead came last March when shrewd young Robert Earl Clements, cofounder, national secretary and working boss of Old Age Revolving Pensions, suddenly resigned from the organization on the eve of his appearance before a special House investigating committee (TIME...
...literate Leftists regularly and at small cost. Launched with Mr. Gollancz' customary well-bred ballyhoo was the Left Book Club. To join, readers had only to pledge that they would buy once a month a cheap special edition of a radical or near-radical book which Victor Gollancz, Ltd. would send them. As usual, Victor Gollancz' competitors bit their quills, wished to blazes they had thought up the idea first...
...series of fairy stories. Before the portrait was finished, methodical Painter Millais found it necessary to have an iridescent glass sphere especially blown so that he could copy the tints of a soap bubble. The canvas created a mild artistic scandal when it was sold to Lever Bros. Ltd. for Pear's soap advertising. As such it soon became Sir John Millais' best known work...
...committee prepared to hang on. Meanwhile many a potent user and producer of newsprint eyed the ailing company's assets with interest. When the bankruptcy ax finally fell eight months later, officers began to appear from such sources as Britain's Bowater's Paper Mills Ltd., a syndicate headed by Montreal's Robert Oliver Sweezey, newsprint users like Lord Beaverbrook, Lord Rothermere and William Randolph Hearst. For three years outside interests proposed and counterproposed, stockholders and creditors wrangled among themselves and with outsiders. Most likely plan was offered in 1934 by Bowater's acting...
During the past few months, gains in business volume* have lofted hopes that Price Bros, may soon be in the black again. Fortnight ago a new combination jumped into the picture. Front for this group was a new company called Pacona Ltd., sponsored by the Manhattan firm of Lehman Bros., and Canadian affiliates of Aluminum Co. of America, including Saguenay Power Co., Price's largest unsecured creditor. Pacona's offer was the answer to a protective committee's dream: cash for principal, back interest and all committee expenses...