Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sigfried Hoofien, general manager of the Orient Anglo-Palestine Co. Ltd.: Order of the British Empire...
...Bedford, 82. Between them there was deep family affection. Between them there was also the friendship which arises from long competition between men. For the late E. T. Bedford was president of Corn Products Refining Co. and his son was president of its smaller but potent rival, Penick & Ford Ltd...
...TIME, Oct. 21, 1929 et seq.), Justice dealt in Old Bailey Court last week with Brynar James Owen. Swindler Owen, soon after the recent Imperial Conference of the Empire Prime Ministers (TIME, Oct. 13 et seq.), walked into the office of International Harvester Company of Great Britain, Ltd. He said that he was the director of the Institute of Agricultural Engineering & Research at Oxford University, a project financed by the Ministry of Agriculture. This was strictly true. He said that the Institute had been commissioned by the Imperial Conference to nominate firms from whom 100,000 tractors costing some...
...appear last week that he ever did so-and $20,000 more. Thirty-one days quietly passed. Not until March 21 did Ford, Ltd. smell a rat, on hearing that Dr. Owen had been suspended as Director of the Oxford Institute. General Manager Smith called up Dr. Owen at his luxurious hotel in Cannes. Dr. Owen said that his suspension was due to a "personal quarrel" at Oxford and would not affect Ford, Ltd.'s nomination. Suspicion, during the next three weeks, built its nest around the Perfect Swindler. His letterheads and his clichés, it was noticed...
...Last week it again went forth to shop. This time it angled (with cash plus stock) for the unprofitable electrical business of American Brown Boveri Electric Corp. Boveri was formed in 1925 to succeed New York Shipbuilding Corp., and acquired the U. S. licenses of Brown Boveri & Co., Ltd. of Baden, Switzerland, one of the world's leaders in the electrical equipment field. In 1928 it contemplated sale of its shipbuilding business but changed its mind when the Jones-White law was passed, sending it much new business. In 1925 Boveri made...