Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shanghai's tramway system covers 43 miles, employs 3,000 workers, hauls 450,000 passengers daily, and is managed by salty Scotsman Alexander Pollock for the British-owned Shanghai Electric Construction Co., Ltd. When Scotsman Pollock emerged last August from Japanese internment to take over his old enterprise, he found chaos. Among other things, the blithering enemy had paid all workers, skilled and unskilled, veteran and green, alike. The first job was to re-establish wage scales...
Against the Palestine Government, are arrayed 17 of Abdul's heirs. They are solidly backed by such solid Britons as Sir Malcolm Stewart of the Federation of British Industries and Colonel Beresford Lockhart-Jervis of Malaysiam Tin, Ltd...
American President Lines, Ltd. is having two 608-ft., 585-passenger liners built with aluminum superstructures, using 98,877 pounds of aluminum; massive (60-ft.) smokestacks on three passenger vessels being built for the Mississippi Shipping Co. will be of aluminum...
...company could qualify as "foreign" only if it also does business in its home country. At one sweep, this would force the reorganization of hundreds of companies formed to do business exclusively in China-such as I.T. & T.'s Shanghai Telephone Co., the British-owned Shanghai Waterworks Co., Ltd., etc. They would be required to 1) have a Chinese chairman of the board of directors, 2) have half of their owners living in China, 3) submit to an inspection of their books. Commented Manhattan's China-American Council of Commerce & Industry, Inc.: "This would certainly discourage American companies...
...selling trick was to keep men's cosmetics as far away from the boudoir as possible, give them a hairy-chested appeal. Hollywood's Courtley, Ltd. said gruffly: "A shaving lotion for he-men only." (But Manhattan's Faberge, Inc. was selling a cologne: "Aphrodisia for Men.") Courtley Ltd.'s bubble baths had ruddy, full-blooded titles: "Chukker," "Steeple Chase," "Irish Moss." Parfums L'Orle Inc. of Manhattan had "Buckskin" and "Touchwood" perfumes ("Just for your handkerchief, of course") at $5 an ounce. Another managed to combine the smell of "the finest cognac, cedarwood, Russian...