Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diamond drill bite into the cocoa-colored rock. At a depth of 49 ft. the drill hit high-grade ore containing about 53% metallic manganese. With 40,000 tons proven reserves, and 140,000 more probable, it looked like a good thing for the island, and Quebec Manganese Mines, Ltd. Every ton of hardened steel requires an average of 14 lbs. of manganese, and most reserves in the U.S. and Canada are low-grade and unprofitable...
...ships' greater speed and better utilization of space will make up part of the greater cost. Three new ships, they claim, do the work of four old ones. But many a British shipping man also agreed with I. C. Geddes, of the Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., whose new $12,000,000 Orcades, a 31,000-ton passenger ship, was recently launched. "In addition to running costs," said Geddes, "these two ships [the Orcades and a sister ship to be built] will have to earn something in the neighborhood of $2,400,000 a year to cover interest...
...Winslow Boy (by Terence Rattigan; produced by the Theatre Guild, H.M. Tennent Ltd. & John C. Wilson) was in real life named George Archer-Shee. Not quite 40 years ago his story-which Playwright Rattigan has followed pretty faithfully-became a cause célèbre of Edwardian England; some eight years ago Alexander Woollcott made good quick reading matter of it for snack-loving Americans...
...Including the Mellon interests of Pittsburgh; Transamerica Corp. (Bank of America); Bache & Co.'s Frank T. Ryan; Glore, Forgan & Co.; London's Hambros Bank, Ltd. and Robert Benson & Co., Ltd. Besides Stettinius and Grew, the individuals include the wartime OSS head, Major General William J. Donovan; Willys-Overland's Chairman James D. Mooney; Atlas Corp.'s L. Boyd Hatch, and Sir William Stephenson, British industrialist...
...commission on the bonds and 2,000,000 shares of Steep Rock stock from the company at 1? per share (it was then selling for close to $1). He then trussed up Steep Rock to a ten-year contract to sell all its ore to Premium Iron Ores, Ltd. Premium in turn purchased 800,000 shares of Steep Rock at $2.50 a share to provide working capital...