Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Stock Exchange, went bald, spindly Author Chester Werntz ("Chet") Shafer, Grand Diapason of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, nonsensical organization of men who, as youngsters, used to pump wind for church organs. Grand Diapason Shafer wanted to consult Pumper Whitney about two shares of Burma Corp. Ltd. ("Burma Lead") which he had bought at $5.50 for the Guild on a "hot tip" in 1929. Last autumn when the Guild's exchequer was lower than usual and the stock was quoted at $1.87, he decided to sell. In order to escape paying the $5 commission...
When British publishers spoke of "The Great Eight" they meant the Graphic, Illustrated London News, Sphere, Sketch, Tatler, Bystander, Britannia & Eve, Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News-all published by Illustrated Newspapers Ltd. Last week the eight were reduced to-seven. Instead of their weekly copies of the Graphic, U. S. subscribers received instead notice that the famed 62-year-old paper was no more...
Beaverbrook Blocked. The difficulties of Price Bros. & Co., Ltd., Canada's old newsprint firm, seemed ended when Lord Beaverbrook had a new directorate elected, his brother AllarrAnderson Aitken made president, and then suggested a plan of reorganization (TIME, June 13). Last week Lord Beaverbrook abruptly announced that his plan had not been acceptable to "several security holders and some of the creditors," had therefore been withdrawn. Chief features of the plan were to postpone sinking fund payments for five years, stop preferred dividends for five years, pay off creditors with income debentures (interest dependent upon earnings...
Largest employer of labor in Gloucester. Mass, is Gorton-Pew Fisheries Co., Ltd. Its plants, stretching along Gloucester's busy waterfront, turn out such fishy products as ready-to-fry codfish cakes, ready-to-use codfish, clam chowder, haddock chowder, flaked fish, haddock fillet, cod liver oil, fish meal...
Died. George Morrison Rolph, 59, one-time president of California & Hawaiian Sugar Refining Corporation, Ltd., brother of Governor James Rolph Jr. of California; of apoplexy; in San Francisco. During the War Herbert Hoover appointed him head of the Sugar Equalization Board, which he made selfsupporting, returning a $30,000,000 surplus to the Government...