Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stock at $15 a share. Advertisements ("a matter of record only") had not even appeared before the stock was whipped up to $46 a share on a when-issued basis. ¶ Within 24 hours after Illinois had formally ratified the 21st Amendment last week, Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts, Ltd., potent Canadian liquor company (Canadian Club Rye), announced that it would build a huge distillery at Peoria. Construction will begin in January with an initial investment of $1,000,000. The distillery will consume 20,000 bushels of grain per day, will have a daily output of 100,000 gallons...
Solvay & Cie is "one of the most powerful chemical companies in the world," interested in I. G. Farbenindustrie of Germany and in British Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. The aim of the Solvay interests in wanting to elect new directors is to steal information for use by Allied's rivals. "The American Chemical industry is today fighting to maintain that [the American] market for American capital and American labor against the organized, combined and ruthless attacks of foreign competition...
...with your company in the markets of the world." This charge depends upon a fact: that the late great British Sir Alfred Mond had a large block of Allied Chemical & Dye stock; and upon a theory: that he needed money to complete the great plants of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. and could get it only by selling the stock to Solvay American Investment Corp. which bought it after raising the necessary capital...
Preliminary agreement on a new concession to supplant the disputed D'Arcy oil leases of Anglo-Persian Oil Co. Ltd. was reached three weeks ago (TIME, May 1). Last week came the final agreement and publication of the terms. Well satisfied, Britain's "Petrol Diplomat," tall, professorial Chairman Sir John Cadman of Anglo-Persian, slipped a copy of the new agreement in his pocket, packed his grips and flew from Beirut to Marseilles, after months of bickering, threatening, appeals to the League of Nations, the new-agreement provides: 1) The period of the concession is 60 years from...
Europe's best known oil tycoon is potent, mysterious Sir Henri Deterding, Director General of Royal Dutch-Shell. As far as the British Government is concerned, Europe's most useful oil tycoon is brisk, smooth-faced Sir John Cadman, chairman of Anglo-Persian Oil Co., Ltd., and an associate of Sir Henri's in distributing oil in the Orient...