Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They were four officials from the United Steel Workers of America (C.I.O.) local of Research Enterprises Ltd. plus a photographer and a reporter from the Toronto Globe & Mail. Demanded the union men: what did the Government intend to do about the Research Enterprises Ltd., with its 5.000 employes? Within a few weeks the plant, which has made radar, would be idle...
...thin, worried Gabriel Tremblay, 39, it was a sorry Labor Day. A onetime Montreal restaurant owner, he had been working at the Canadian Vickers, Ltd. shipyard in East Montreal. There he made better wages than ever before, but heavy medical expenses and old business debts made saving all but impossible. Now that he had been laid off, he did not know what to do. Said he: "The soldiers are coming back . . . and they have to have jobs. But us, we have to live, too." His pretty wife Marianne had it all figured out: unless Gabriel found a job soon, they...
...Government-owned Small Arms, Ltd. plant near Toronto, a thousand workers staged a sitdown strike against layoffs...
Service Resumed. The first passenger vessel from the U.S. since early 1942 nosed its way between the coral reefs that line the channel into Hamilton, Bermuda. She was the Furness, Withy & Cox, Ltd.'s trim, flag-bedecked, 3,500-ton Fort Townsend, carrying 31 passengers and 830 tons of cargo...
...Port Hope, Ont., hired scientists to do the technical work, and began producing radium (sale price: $25,000 a gram). It meant little to them that one of the by-products was uranium oxide. Had it not been for World War II, their prosperous Eldorado Mining & Refining Co., Ltd., which netted $280,000 in 1942, might still be producing dividends for shareholders scattered all over the U.S. and Canada...