Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly, at the No. 5 elevator of the Saskatchewan Pool Terminal, Ltd., where the Sonora was loading, a pillar of flame shot 300 ft. skyward. There was an earth-shaking roar, heard several miles away. No. 5's cement walls, towering 180 ft. above dock level, fell apart like cardboard. The top four floors of the big bin were sheared away, and fell in a death-dealing avalanche of concrete and twisted steel, smashing nearby freight cars pancake flat. Concrete pillars, 2 ft. square, were tossed through the air like matchsticks...
Selznick and Rank had formed a new company-Selznick International Pictures of England, Ltd. It was to be financed 100% by Rank (as board chairman), and run by Selznick (as executive producer). Under the contract, voting powers would be equal. In 1946 they would make three pictures abroad. The first would be a $5 million special called "Mary Magdalene," starring Selznick-owned Joseph Gotten and Ingrid Bergman...
...Britain is in a hurry to carry out her export policy. The Austin will be followed by 20 more export models (which have chrome trimmings and leather upholstery, missing from domestic models) due in the U.S. within two weeks. Another 15 are en route to Argentina. Austi-Motor Co., Ltd. has been able to get its postwar jump on U.S. automakers because it really never stopped Austin production: the Austin-made British jeep, a utility truck, was built on the same chassis as the civilian models. Austin expects to turn out 8,000 cars by year's end, expects...
Pont), Philadelphia's Röhm & Haas Co., and seven other officials of the two companies, of conspiring with Britain's Imperial Chemicals Industries, Ltd., and Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie Akt., and Röhm & Haas, G.m.b.H., of Darmstadt, Germany, to operate a worldwide cartel in acrylic resins (Plexiglas, Lucite), used as windshields on airplanes, etc. They were accused of controlling the production, sale and price of these plastics and of dividing up the world markets...
...Saskatchewan has acquired a tax-free power company which last year showed net profits of $334,000 and which had 400 miles of line and some 8,000 customers. Probable next step: provincial purchase of another private power company, in the province, Saskatchewan's Prairie Power Co., Ltd...