Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest firm of racetrack book makers in the world is Douglas Stuart Ltd., which employs 400 clerks in its entirely legal offices at Stuart House, Shaftesbury Avenue, London. Douglas Stuart, whose motto is "Duggie Never Owes" is not a person but a syndicate. Busiest member of the syndicate is breezy, dapper, dark-haired Sidney Freeman, who once worked with Novelist Edgar Wallace on a South African newspaper, and who would "rather trust an English bricklayer than a foreign nobleman," in the matter of bets. For the last three years. Bookmaker Freeman has been coming...
Last week the first court action for violation of the Securities Act of 1933 was started in a Manhattan Federal Court. The Federal Trade Commission secured a temporary order restraining C. Morrison Smith & Co., investment brokers, from selling stock of Golden Quebec Mines, Ltd. Golden Quebec, organized at Toronto last December with some $92,000 in assets and 48 claims in a gold district in northwest Quebec, filed a Trade Commission registration in February covering an issue of 350,000 shares at $1 par. The Trade Commission charged that C. Morrison Smith & Co., underwriters of the issue, had sold some...
Institution in London. He had been pained to discover that a portion of the Church pension fund came from $50,000 worth of Vickers, Ltd. stock. No less pained were other clerics the following day when the stock was ordered sold. Slender white-haired Douglas Vickers, director general of the firm that bears his name, was far too busy last week to pay attention to all this. Other arms tycoons have their hobbies: postage stamps, hybrid tea roses, Louis Seize furniture, after-dinner speeches about peace. Making money is the hobby of Director General Vickers, who is also a very...
...part of a full-page advertisement in the New York Herald Tribune appeared a facsimile of the following cablegram from London: "PRINCE WALES PRINCE GEORGE WEARING SLIDE FASTENERS ON TROUSER FLIES STOP LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN RECOMMENDED THIS IDEA TO THEM STOP FASTENERS USED ARE MANUFACTURED BY IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LTD BY ARRANGEMENT WITH HOOKLESS FASTENER COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA...
...season just closed production was some 2,400,000 barrels worth about $26,000,000. But some 1,800,000 bbl. still overhang the market and another holiday next year is by no means improbable. Only British whaling company with publicly owned stock is Anglo-Norwegian Holdings. Ltd. which was organized in 1929 and which earned $542,000 in 1930, $60,300 last year. The Norwegian companies, which dominate the field, are largely locally owned...