Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while on Mandoan territory Mandoans got their first exciting taste of civilization. Old-timers wanted no more of it. but a few progressives, led by smart San Talal, began to dream of modernizing Mandoa. Meantime in London careful young Maurice Durrant, partner in Prince's Tours, Ltd., was carving his career. He heard of Mandoa as a virgin territory for his firm, a "sphere of influence" that might be developed for England. And his ne'er-do-well brother Bill was beginning to prove a hampering embarrassment. Killing two birds, he got Bill sent to Mandoa as agent...
...years has pressed within 200,000 of the Mail's. The News-Chronicle, a liberal sheet controlled by the Cadbury (chocolate) family and sport-loving Lord Cowdray, customarily ran third. In 1930 the Daily Herald ran a miserable fourth with 350,000. Then along came Odhams Press Ltd., publishers of John Bull, Passing Show and many another successful periodical, and took over the Herald...
...bales in 1929, of which the U. S. took 73%. This was wealth to the Kata-kura brothers. In 1920 they recapitalized their company at 52,000,000 yen, gave it a more resounding name: Katakura Seishi Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha (Katakura Raw-Silk, Spun Silk Manufacturing Co. Ltd.). Today it is one of the largest and oldest silk reeling firms in the world. It is a huge producer of pedigreed silkworm eggs, has 28 silkworm moths each lay her eggs neatly in one of 28 squares on a card, sells 2,000,000 such cards a year to farmers...
...agency will continue to operate as Geyer Co. in Dayton, will be Geyer-Cornell in Manhattan. Besides Frigidaire its accounts include National Cash Register, Oneida Community Ltd., Hookless Fastener (zippers), Crowell Publishing Co., Tetley's Tea, Waco Aircraft, Sapolio, Hanan shoes, Eaton Papes, Richfield Oil Co. of New York...
...founded New York Shipbuilding in 1899 (see p. 47). Astute, he sold it out at the height of the Wartime shipbuilding boom. After the War when marine construction dwindled almost to nil, it branched into electrical equipment under license agreements with the famed Swiss firm of Brown, Boveri & Co. Ltd. In 1925 it changed its name to American Brown Boveri Electric Corp. Diversification proved to be illadvised. In 1931 it sold its electrical business to Allis-Chalmers, resumed its old name, began to make money. Profits jumped from...