Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cans Abroad. Last year Continental Can Co., Inc., second biggest in the U. S., bought a minority interest in Metal Box & Printing Industries, Ltd., biggest in Britain. Last week Continental Can again expanded abroad, bought control of Compagnie Franco-Continentale de Boites Metalliques, one of the leading can companies in France. Shareholders in both the big can companies last week were pleased at the depression-proof manner in which their earnings held...
...Pier 5, just north of San Francisco's clock-towered Ferry Building, is the semicircular "landing button" or artificial beach of Air Ferries Ltd., whose red Loening amphibians flash back and forth across the bay between San Francisco and Oakland every 20 min. On the button last week gathered local bigwigs to watch Dry-goodsman Marshal Hale and youthful James Rolph III, son of California's Governor (both directors of Air Ferries), slice a great cake on which stood one birthday candle. One would never have guessed from the exuberance of the affair that Air Ferries...
...hold. There, surrounded by impassive Chinese the Inspector tapped the steel mast, found it hollow. "Bring a drill!" said he. Out of this hole in the hollow mast he soon extracted tins of opium worth $150,000 at $25 an ounce. Owners of the ship, James Chambers Ltd. of Liverpool are liable to fines equal to the dope's value, if they cannot prove ignorance of the smuggle...
...Andrew Carnegie, Chairman Frederick Graufurd Goodenough of Barclays Bank, Ltd., Nicholas Murray Butler, Banker Albert Henry Wiggin...
Edward Wentworth Beatty, chairman and president of Canadian Pacific Railway, was elected a director of the advisory committee of International Nickel Co. of Canada Ltd., succeeding the late Lord Melchett...