Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Motherhood, Ltd...
When Canadian Orange Crush, Ltd. needed help, he bought its stock (peak value: $4,300,000) for $43,000. Along with it he got a lawsuit filed by the Honey Dew chain of restaurants, in which Orange Crush had an interest. Quickwitted Eddie Taylor dropped in to see the Honey Dew board of directors. He came out a vice president. Two days later the president died, and Taylor got into...
...rumor was that "Shell's pulling out." It hit Ecuador last week with all the panicky force of a colliery's closing on a Pennsylvania hard-coal town. It remained rumor while officials of .the Shell Co. of Ecuador, Ltd. talked about reorganization rather than withdrawal. But in Quito Shell's lawyer, Henry Farquharson, after insisting that plans called for firing of less than 20% of 4,500 employees, added ominously: "You can't go on indefinitely." What he meant was that Shell could not go on pouring money into a plan which...
...Importance of Being Earnest (by Oscar Wilde; produced by the Theatre Guild & John C. Wilson in association with H. M. Tennent, Ltd.) brings John Gielgud back to Broadway for the first time since his Hamlet in 1936. In the interim, the 42-year-old Englishman has played Hamlet at Elsinore, offered British playgoers a cavalcade of the classics, given London a repertory company to rival the Old Vic. For his present visit, Gielgud apparently questioned the importance of being earnest: he would frivol first in Wilde's classic farce, later in Congreve's Restoration comedy, Love for Love...
...misinterpretation of a news dispatch, TIME'S apologies to Canadian Vickers Ltd., manufacturers of ships, engines, boilers and general engineering products, but not airplanes...