Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canadian law requires an employer to rehire a World War II veteran "under conditions not less favorable" than those he enjoyed before entering the service-or pay a penalty. To Marathon Paper Mills of Canada, Ltd., this seemed like expensive nonsense in the case of Colonel Alfred Louis Johnson. The case became the first court test involving a senior executive, under the Reinstatement...
...affable Al Johnson, now 47, was running the General Timber Co., Ltd. when Marathon took it over in 1938, retained him as general manager of its pulpwood operations near Port Arthur. His contract called for an annual salary of $7,500 plus a production bonus...
...long ago James Henry Gundy,* head of the Montreal investment banking house of Wood, Gundy Co., Ltd. wanted to start an airline. Keys suggested a Lima-to-Montreal route, got a charter from the Peruvian Government, and raised $4,000,000 from Americans, Canadians, and Peruvians. P.I.A.'s first route, which it hopes to be operating before March: Lima to Montreal via Panama City, Havana, and New York. This may prove potent competition for Panagra. And if P.I.A. ever makes the obvious extension to Buenos Aires, it will have a New York-to-Buenos Aires route 700 miles shorter...
Died. Baron Hayter (born: George Hayter Chubb), 98, frail son of a locksmith who built his family's tiny business into the famed Chubb & Sons' Lock and Safe Co., Ltd., in 1927 was raised to the peerage, became a director of the life insurance company that once refused him a policy because of his ill health, lived to be Britain's oldest peer; in London...
...Vancouver, police swooped down on the East End Printers and Publishers, seized canceled checks and other documents, arrested two printers: Oswald Thomas, plant owner, and Robert Bracken, ex-owner. The charge: perjury. Their firm, said police, had printed price lists for Vancouver's United Distillers of Canada Ltd., considered the largest independently owned distillery in Canada, makers of Harwood's. These prices had been submitted to OPA in the U.S. as those in effect in December 1941 or January 1942, the base period for price ceilings. Using them as a base, OPA had set the U.S. price...