Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Depression forced De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., to close its diamond mines. Chief unit of the South African diamond syndicate, De Beers closed with the understanding that other mines would follow. But a favorite child of South Africa's government is its diamond-cutting factory at Kimberley. On the heels of the first announcement came news that the government had contracted with I. W. Schlesinger to operate this factory and other smaller ones. Price charged by I. W. Schlesinger was permission to work diamonds in his extensive holdings in Namaqualand. Before the syndicate was the prospect...
...were highest on record : 3.065 firms went under with liabilities of $266,172.000. Banks accounted for 290, tied-up deposits of $145,700,000. In receivership within the past month or with petitions pending were Ground Gripper Shoe Co., Long-Bell Lumber Corp. (TIME, Feb. 1 ), Western Steel Products, Ltd.. Ari zona Edison Co., Cuban Dominican Sugar Corp., Spreckels Sugar Corp. (TIME, Feb. 1), Cincinnati & Lake Erie Railroad Co., Multicolor, Ltd., Hamilton Gas Co., Hudson River Navigation Corp., Piedmont Utilities Co., American Equities Co., Texas-Louisiana Power...
Bonds of the Imperial Japanese Government, which had already dropped some 30 points, dropped ten more points last week to 61. Tokyo City bonds dropped over seven points. Bonds of Daido Denryoku Kabushiki Kaisha (Great Consolidated Electric Power Co. Ltd.) dropped over 13. The yen sank to a value of 35?, lowest level in history...
...Bovril, in its squat, liquorish bottles, is now capitalized for ?3,000,000, has ?6,000,000 of assets including 1,300,000 acres of cattleland in the Argentine and 9,000,000 acres in Australia, where "Bovril" is the slang equivalent for applesauce or baloney. Last week, Bovril, Ltd. of London launched a new company called Bovril of America, Inc. and appointed William C. Scull of Camden, N. J. to organize large scale distribution of Bovril...
...late George James Playfair, Baron Playfair, an outstanding medical scientist who used to cheer patients with an account of his part in the action at Shipka Pass in the Turkish War of 1877. While the exact process by which Bovril is distilled from meat is secret, Bovril, Ltd. has never attempted to conceal the fact that it takes 20 to 30 pounds of good lean beef to make one pound of Bovril. This circumstance is cunningly suggested by the Bovril poster, which shows a shaggy and slightly dilapidated steer staring at a bottle of Bovril with a wild surmise that...