Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...specialist in elemental-struggle-for-existence sagas. When he heard that the Aran Islands, off the Galway coast of Ireland, were so barren that the inhabitants had to gather soil in baskets to grow potatoes in crevices of rock, he went to England's Gainsborough Pictures Ltd. for financial backing. Man of Aran is the result of his two-year sojourn on Inishmore, largest of the three islands. Decorated with a musical score based on Irish folk songs, equipped with intermittent scraps of Gaelic, the picture proves the Aran Islands to be as inhospitable as Director Flaherty could have...
Died. Sir Ernest Burford Horlick, 54, Lord of the Manor of Cowley, chairman of Horlick's Malted Milk Co., Ltd. of London, Wartime R. F. C. captain; after brief illness; in Paris...
...South Bend trial could hardly be described in terms of two venerable soapmakers ganging a struggling competitor. The assets of Britain's Lever Brothers Ltd. are $175.000,000 larger than the assets of P. & G. and Colgate combined. Its profits last year footed up to £6,200,000?about $31,000,000. Lever's properties are so far flung that at the annual meeting last April the chairman had a map of the world on the wall behind him with Lever plants ?and plantations?picked out with tiny colored electric bulbs. When the chairman pushed one button, green...
Start. Conceived by the Cunard Line as the world's biggest ship, the keel of No. 534 was laid in February 1931, at the shipyard of John Brown & Co. Ltd., Clydebank. Her tonnage was 73,000, her cost $30,000,000. Eleven months after her keel was laid, work was suspended for lack of funds. For two years and four months No. 534 was an empty, half-finished hull. Then the Cunard and White Star Lines merged. The Government came to No. 534's rescue with a three-million-pound loan. Some 3,800 workmen went back...
...added twelve new round-trips daily to established domestic airmail routes. He extended air mail service to five new cities by authorizing stops on existing runs at Providence, New Haven, Elmira, Scranton, Youngstown. He introduced airmail to the Hawaiian Islands by authorizing Inter-Island Airways, Ltd. to carry mail between Honolulu, Lihue, Hilo and Wailuku...