Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Home Publishing Co. Ltd. wandered through the wheat deserts of western Canada building prestige and circulation for Western Home Monthly. Twelve months ago the firm decided it was time to enter the more fertile publishing fields of the populous East. With wheat at 50? a bu., Western Home Monthly (headquarters: Winnipeg) found its readers broke. The magazine "went national," guaranteed an A. B. C. circulation of 180,000 by October 1932, a boost of some 60,000 over the distribution it then had. With a whoop of delight, last week the publishers announced that the goal had been reached...
Maclean's (circulation: 160,028*) is Canada's Satevepost. It favors native authors, remains in the homey Canadian magazine tradition by maintaining a small culinary department and investment advice. Maclean Publishing Co. Ltd. also issues Chatelaine (circulation: 127,873*), the Canadian Good Housekeeping, No. 3 of the Big Five, and 30 other specialized magazines. In addition, the company prints Canadian editions of U. S. pulps and Punch, a month late...
President and founder of Maclean Ltd. is Lieut.-Colonel John Bayne Maclean, who looks like a Lord and generally feels like one. He rides in a Rolls-Royce, owns a big house in Toronto, another in England, a third at Palm Beach. His wife, the former Anna Perkins Slade, daughter of onetime Harvard Professor Daniel Denison Slade, is a niece of Countess Edla of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha. He likes to tell how a British secret service agent whisked them out of Germany on a diplomatic train...
...support his head because his neck was broken flying in the War nearly intruded upon frail Professor Piccard's rarefied kingdom. In a specially lightened Bull Pup plane powered with a 550-h. p. Pegasus motor. Chief Test Pilot Cyril Unwins of Britain's Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., soared 45,000 ft.- more than eight miles above the Severn Valley. Classified as an "interceptor" in the Royal Air Force, the British fighting pursuit plane, equipped for service, has a ceiling of 28,000 ft. Pilot Unwins had to wait until his barograph was recalibrated to the barometric pressure...
Died. Russell Henry Ballard, 57, president of Southern California Edison Co., Ltd. and of California Institute Associates (backers of Caltech); of pneumonia: in Los Angeles...