Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along the way he encountered Steep Rock Iron Mines, Ltd. Steep Rock looked like the kind of big business that Eaton likes. In Ontario, some 70 miles north of the famed Mesabi range, Steep Rock owned fabulously rich iron ore lands with proven reserves of 30 million tons; geophysicists estimated that they might contain as much as 500 million tons, half as rich as Mesabi. The trouble was that the ore lay under Steep Rock Lake and 150 feet of water. Eaton bought control of Steep Rock for an initial cash outlay of only $20,000, and started...
...Canada's largest foreign corporation is the Brazilian Traction Light & Power Co., Ltd. which supplies light, transportation, telephones & gas to 20 million Brazilians...
...that many children enter school with a natural liking for poetry and are taught to dislike it. Who is to blame? Why, the poetry teachers, answers Strong, who has been a poetry teacher himself.* In his chapter in a new symposium, The Teaching of English in Schools (Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London), Strong distinguishes six common deficiencies in poetry teachers: The teacher dislikes poetry. "A great deal of the current British hostility to poetry dates from the careers of Byron and Shelley, reinforced by that of Oscar Wilde, which have connected it with effeminacy, goings-on, incapacity for sport...
Mozart: Piano Concerto in B Flat (K.450) (Kathleen Long, pianist, with the National Symphony Orchestra, Boyd Neel conducting; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 6 sides). This version of one of Mozart's greatest concertos merely glimmers where it should sparkle. Recording: excellent...
...presidency of the $66,800,000 American President Lines, Ltd., which is Government-owned but privately operated, has always been a political plum. When onetime Assistant Secretary of State Henry F. Grady resigned as president last April (to become the first U.S. Ambassador to India), he hoped for a break with tradition. He announced that he expected to be succeeded by Executive Vice President E. Russell Lutz, no politician. He was wrong. Last week, to fill the $25,000-a-year vacancy, the company chose lean-faced, natty George L. Killion, 46, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee...