Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shipping lines and 19 foreign lines. The charge: conspiring to monopolize trade between Atlantic Coast ports and the Far East by setting higher rates for customers who did not give them all their business. In another suit, it accused Decca Records, Inc. and its British counterpart, Decca Record Co., Ltd , of trying to divide world markets by "conspiracy and cartel agreements" in violation of the antitrust laws...
...another (Hedy Home Wave) that was less well known, planned to change all that by thumping advertising. In branching out last week into food products, Luckman had not gone afield: oleomargarine uses many of the same raw materials as soap (Lever's British parent company, Lever Bros. & Unilever, Ltd., and its Dutch twin already dominate the world margarine market...
...York Stock Exchange last week a 10,000-share block of Dome Mines Ltd. (gold) was sold at 16¼ a share. The seller: Wall Street's Clifford Michel, Dome Mines president. Next day, when Dome cut its quarterly dividend (from 25? Canadian to 17½?), the value of the 10,000 shares dropped $11,250. Then, before anybody could cry "inside unloading," Clifford Michel stepped up, canceled the sale, and gave his reasons...
...minutes from dawn to dusk a DC-3 takes off from or lands at Honolulu Airport for a flight around the islands. Businessmen fly from one island to another for lunch; housewives fly into Honolulu to shop; planters commute by air between farms and cities. Islanders call Hawaiian Airlines, Ltd. the "trolley line." Next week Hawaiian Airlines, with two more DC-3s added to its fleet of eight, will step up its flights from...
...Inventor. PhotoMetric is the product of more than two years (and $500,000 worth) of research by Henry Booth, boss of Manhattan's Amalgamated Textiles Ltd., one of the biggest U.S. jobbers of fine woolens, and its subsidiary, Bennett, Inc. (eleven U.S. stores). Booth, a grandson of England's famed Salvation Army Founder William Booth, came to the U.S. at 16, worked up in the textile jobbing field. In the depression '30s he merged five jobbers to form Amalgamated, which later became U.S. distributor for Forstmann Woolen Co. and more than 20 top British mills...