Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TELECOMMUNICATIONS. Worldwide external facilities of Cable & Wireless Ltd., big 16 years ago under a Government-approved merger of four big companies, will be nationalized...
West Europe, Ltd. Connolly's less agreeable qualities include a tone of pettish portentousness into which he falls when writing of philosophical or religious matters that he can taste but cannot fathom. At Eton little Cyril preserved a pious air in chapel, though reading his blackbound Petronius instead of the prayer book; in more adult ways he has continued...
Dream House. In Honolulu, Chun Hoon, Ltd., grocers, reported the overnight appearance on their premises of a two-bedroom house, unoccupied. Next night it went away again...
Xavier Cugat, king of the rumba, was legally serenaded by Manhattan's Town & Travel Wear, Ltd. The dress shop said that Cugat (who has been sued for a separation by his wife of 16 years) okayed "anything in the house" for Actress Lorraine Allen-whereupon Miss Allen brooded for two hours, then settled on something in taffeta with an off-the-shoulder effect. The shop ran it up, to order, and then Cugat sent it back. What the shop wants: $297.95, in jigtime...
...years, some $80,000,000, are again flowing to Rotterdam. Some of them will be used to rebuild Unilever plants on the Continent, although they were comparatively little damaged. Some will go to pay N.V. stockholders a whopping back dividend of 29.6%, announced last week. Probably Unilever Ltd., which has never missed a dividend (10% in prewar years), will now boost its wartime rate...