Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...innuendo of Mr. Justice Joyce in the case between Chang and The Chinese etc. Co., Ltd. directed at Mr. Hoover as is intimated in the book above mentioned...
...Vickers, Ltd., world's most famed makers of war paraphernalia, were ordered by the Air Ministry last week to stop work on the largest fighting and bombing sea plane ever begun in Great Britain, a monster weapon of destruction with a cruising range of 1,300 mi. "This economy," said a spokesman sadly, "is a distinct blow to the Empire's progress. Had she proved successful, we planned to build another ship almost twice as large and correspondingly more powerful." Vickers, Ltd. will some day build a plane with which New York can be bombed from London or vice versa...
...dollars in their pockets he bought a steerage ticket for England and slipped away to look for cannibals. Eventually he reached Johannesburg, spent several years grubbing for his board & bed. Finally he hit upon the bright idea of selling land on the installment plan, formed African Realty Trust, Ltd., sold suburban sites which later became parts of cities. To get the sites occupied he imported portable houses, opened a mortgage & loan office. To get his tenants to their homes he started a bus line. That paid too. Everything paid. He bought more land, planted it with fruits, sold it, collected...
...Ferries, Ltd. began two years ago to fly Loening amphibians back and forth every 20 min. In time Standard Oil Co. of California, an original stockholder, took control of the company. Unsuccessful, it ceased operations last Autumn. Last week a new air ferry was begun by Walter T. Varney, famed pioneer airman of the West...
Died. Edgar Speyer, 69, banker, onetime board chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd., brother of Wall Street's famed James ("Jimmie") Speyer; of a hemorrhage following a nasal operation; in Berlin. Of German parentage, he became a British subject and banker, was made a baronet and Privy Councillor. During the War he was accused of trading with the enemy, and though denying the charges, requested that his honors be revoked. After the War he was deprived of British citizenship, retired to Manhattan. His wife, Leonora Speyer, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry...