Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Identified in Lloyd's register as the Holmewood of Barbados, owned by Continental Indies Shipping Co., Ltd., the abandoned ship was towed down the river into New York harbor and her cargo placed under guard. As she lay at anchor near the Statue of Liberty she created amazement among the officers and crew of the real Texas Ranger as they steamed in from Galveston...
...Private Life of Henry VIII (London Film Productions, Ltd.). When he has Anne Boleyn executed, robustious Henry VIII is in high spirits. He has a drum give the signal the instant her head rolls off the block so that he need waste no time about marrying foolish, pretty Jane Seymour...
Distillers Co., Ltd., Britain's monster whiskey trust, has kept U. S. liquormen in a dither all summer. Its dozens of brands include most of the best known Scotch whiskeys and the world's leading gin-Gordon's. Like Bacardi, Johnny Walker, John Haig, White Horse, Dewar's, etc. are probably more widely known in the U. S. today (through faked labels) than they were before Prohibition. Two D.C.L. representatives came to Manhattan early last spring, spent several months and thousands of dollars on surveys of potential business. Wined & dined by nearly every U. S. liquorman...
...July it was learned that D. C. L.'s managing director, Thomas Herd, was in Montreal visiting his affiliated Distillers Corp.-Seagrams, Ltd. About all the liquormen knew was that Mr. Herd was a quiet, hard-headed gentleman who abhorred publicity and brokers, that he never moved a step without an aide, Thomas Wilkinson...
...Montreal last week the fate of Canada's venerable Price Brothers & Co., Ltd. (newsprint) was finally settled. Suffering from the gutted newsprint market, Price Brothers defaulted on its bonds more than a year ago. Britain's potent publisher, Canadian-born Lord Beaverbrook, whose papers used Price newsprint and whose brother Allan Anderson Aitken was a director, tried his hand at reorganization but was blocked by the bondholders. Last April Price slipped into receivership. Other interests including Duke-Price Power (Aluminum Co. of America affiliate) wangled for control. Last week the bondholders committee sold Price Brothers to 55-year...