Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Brigadier General Francis Conway Jenkins, 44, one of the Royal Air Force's wartime nucleus of 13 officers, last month elected board chairman of Britain's Chrysler Motors, Ltd.; of an operation for appendicitis; in Windsor, England...
...squeaky-voiced Canadian named Harold F. Ritchie as he lay on a Toronto operating table. His name is not found on many rosters of the business great, yet he had good claim to the proud title of "World's Greatest Salesman." His Harold F. Ritchie & Co., Ltd. is a globe-embracing network of sales agencies through which such commodities as Rubberset brushes, Tanglefoot fly paper, Glover's Mange Cure and Fralinger's Salt Water Taffy have been broadcast over six continents. His, too, the control of such famed products as Eno's Fruit Salt, Scott...
...British Government are controlling shareholders of Anglo-Persian Oil Co. Ltd., which had a concession to exploit Persia's oil fields. Dissatisfied with the royalties Persia was getting, her Shah canceled the concession (TIME, Dec. 12). The British ultimatum gave the Shah until Dec. 15 to reinstate...
...Manners (by Dana Burnet & William B. Jutte; William A. Brady Ltd., producer). "Sex is all right in its place," says the hero of this play, "but people talk about it too much." Had the authors heeded this warning, Bad Manners might have some claim to theatregoers attentions...
Most interested in Boots was Mr. Hill, already chairman of its two big rivals (Timothy Whites and Taylors) and of Beecham Pills, Ltd. and Veno Drug Co., a manufacturing concern. He agreed to form a syndicate to buy the Boots stock for $25,000,000. London was agog with tales of a gigantic combine and happy over the prospects of having so big a concern come home to roost, laying its dividends on British soil. The U. S., of course, was pleased in the unique achievement of making a $15,000,000 profit out of a foreign investment. And then...