Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry a serious rival to Hollywood. When he arrived in Manhattan on his way to California to discuss his plans for the coming season, ship news reporters on the lie de France dutifully scribbled every word Alexander Korda said because they knew that, as head of London Film Productions, Ltd. he is today Britain's best in the way of a producer...
...thousand ears stayed cocked while Pierrepont Burt Noyes read lengthy telegrams. Mr. Noyes, president of Oneida Community Ltd. (silver plate), managed the spending of the last $4,500,000 on Saratoga Spa and is going to remain with the management to give the Spa éclat. Up to now Jews who learned the wisdom of mineral baths in Germany and Austria have been the most numerous and constant users of Saratoga...
...greatest" newspaper is the London Daily Herald. It is owned by Odhams Press, Ltd., but Odhams means Julius Elias, its chairman and managing director. Since picking up the Herald, a doddering Laborite organ, five years ago, busy little Julius Elias has rammed its circulation from 250,000 to more than 2,000,000. In so doing he led the English Press in the most insanely expensive circulation war that circulation-war-torn isle had ever seen (TIME, Sept. 25, 1933). All the popular London newspapers pitched into the furious scramble for readers, bribing them with every premium imaginable from sets...
...most undercapitalized is the liquor business. It needs funds to carry inventories through the aging process. Last summer President Seton Porter of National Distillers Products Corp. proposed to raise money by selling 337,000 shares of new common stock to the public and an equivalent amount to Distillers Co. Ltd., Britain's fabulous whiskey trust (TIME, Aug. 30). The scheme was abandoned when DCL refused to pay $25 a share. Last week National Distillers announced its latest bid for fresh capital by filing registration with the Securities & Exchange Commission for a $15,000,000 42% debenture issue-biggest single...
George Weston Ltd. of Toronto is a small, ambitious baking company with half a dozen plants in Canada, Scotland and the U. S. Conservatively capitalized with 182,000 shares of preferred and common stock, it has a sound, steady earnings record. Few years ago when Weston Ltd.'s youthful President Garfield Weston arrived in the U. S. seeking fresh capital, bankers were cold to his argument that Depression is the time to expand. But Ben Smith often invests in companies because he likes their personnel, and he liked Garfield Weston. At some indeterminate date, for an unrevealed price...