Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Société Anonyme, Germans in Ford Motor Co. A. G., Spaniards in Ford Motor Iberica Dutchmen in N. V. Nederlandsche Ford Automobielfabriek. In the U. S. there are two Ford stocks traded on the New York Curb Exchange-Ford Motor Co. of Canada and Ford. Motor Co., Ltd., the British unit whose ? shares are bought & sold as "depositary certificates...
Died. Lady Duff-Gordon (Lucy Sutherland) 71. famed dress designer, long-time president of Lucile Ltd. (now defunct), Titanic survivor, sister of Novelist Elinor Glyn; after six months' illness; in London. She was credited with the first split skirt, first manikin show, first application of the word chic to clothes. A poor businesswoman, she once told a recorder in bankruptcy that she did not know what a share of stock...
...people who buy stock in a munitions firm and cash their dividend checks with alacrity should turn up at stockholders' meetings to make trouble is an endless source of honest wonder to General Sir Herbert Alexander Lawrence, Chairman of Vickers Ltd...
Such an announcement came from the new Manhattan offices of Dufaycolor, Inc., new U. S. sales subsidiary of Dufaycolor Ltd., of London. Behind this film lay long years and millions of dollars of experimental work. Patient sponsors were London's venerable Spicers Ltd., makers of fine paper. The idea stems back to a crude geometrical color screen constructed in France 25 years ago by Louis Dufay. But so complex is the perfected method that some 500 patents were necessary to bring it up to the commercial stage. And it would not have been possible if the researchers...
...high places. Broadly hinted was a British "Stavisky" scandal. Names of Cabinet and Parliament members, big bankers and business"-men, were indiscriminately linked to the great commodity speculation of the past two years. Wild as such talk probably was, there were among the big stockholders in James & Shakespeare, Ltd., the fallen pepper king's trading company, two names known to all England: Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, tall, suave, icy board chairman of huge British-American Tobacco Co., Ltd.; and Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna, bald, brainy head of Midland Bank, world's largest, and onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer...