Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pont de Nemours was charged with having betrayed U. S. military secrets to foreign nations by having entered into an agreement for an exchange of patents with Nobel, Ltd. of London. Evidence was an intracompany memorandum objecting to the exchange: "If it could be shown that the du Pont Company had a working agreement with a foreign powder manufacturer, the conclusion could be drawn that the du Pont Company was acting in bad faith with our own government. Congress would have an opportunity to brand us as traitors...
Died. Abraham Spencer Freeman, 24, son of Sydney Freeman of London's famed betting commissioners "Duggie's" (Douglas Stuart, Ltd.); in a motor accident; in London. Acting for his father, he bought up $300,000 worth of Irish Hospital Sweepstakes tickets in Manhattan (TIME...
President-elect of IHA is Sir Francis Towle (pronounced Toll), managing director of Gordon Hotels, Ltd. which owns, among others, London's Mayfair, Metropole and Grosvenor. His brother Arthur Edward, also in Manhattan last week, runs the biggest hotel chain outside the U. S., a string of smaller places the length & breadth of the British Isles. On the side he directs the dining-car, restaurant and hotel division of London, Midland & Scottish...
...Sidney Freeman Jr., sole U. S. representative of "Duggie." A syndicate and not a person, "Duggie" is London's Douglas Stuart Ltd. ("Duggie Never Owes"), world's biggest firm of racetrack bookmakers. For years this British syndicate has been sending Sidney Freeman Sr., one of the directors, to the U. S. to buy up Sweepstakes tickets from persons who prefer a small sure thing to a large chance. Last summer Sidney Freeman Jr. went along, watched his father trade $100,000 cash for Epsom Derby lottery tickets which won some $225,000 (TIME, June 18). After that lesson Sidney...
...abuse of Canadian Big Business that Mr. Stevens wrote and distributed three months ago, weighted with his authority as Minister of Trade and Commerce, Chairman of the Royal Commission on Price Spreads and Mass Buying and an avowedly Conservative member of Parliament. It loosely and libelously arraigns Canada Packers Ltd., Dominion Securities Corp., Robert Simpson Co., Sir Joseph Flavelle, Imperial Tobacco Co., and T. Eaton & Co., to prove that "our economic structure is just upside down...