Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cramming schools, which are not mentioned in polite academic society, often include brilliant teachers and teaching.* British education also has its cramming crypts. The most famed, and hoarier than many U.S. colleges, is "Jimmy's" of London (Carlisle & Gregson, Ltd.), which last week was cramming young men for the British medical examinations. As usual, Jimmy's confidently expected to get 90% of them through...
...sold out his rubber and shoe interests and bought control of McCormick's, Ltd., a candy and biscuit maker of London, Ont. Within three years he was fighting British-controlled George Weston, Ltd. for the Canadian market. Upshot: Weston bought McCormick's, Ltd. but kept Cummings...
...Harrods Ltd., a department store, had some Spanish sherry, bought soon after the war started at ?33 a butt (100 gallons). A German bomb hit the warehouse where the sherry was stored. Harrods collected an insurance claim for ?45 a butt (covering insurance and other costs). Then the sherry, found intact, became the property of the Government. Harrods offered to buy it back at ?200 a butt. The Government refused the offer, demanded ?500 a butt. When Harrods declined to pay any such price, officials confidently looked around for other buyers...
...because he had been asking the British too many questions about their vast oil reserves in the Middle East. Still another eye-popping Petroleum News report was that Franklin Roosevelt himself had thought of demanding a half interest for the U.S. in Britain's Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd. as a quid pro quo for lend-leased U.S. oil, but had backed down before Teheran...
...three years, Thurman Arnold, then Assistant Attorney General, tried to prove in an anti-trust suit still pending before the U.S. Supreme Court that Aluminium, Ltd. was a subsidiary of Alcoa. In his decision Judge Francis G. Caffey of the U.S. District Court in New York held that there is no financial connection between the two companies...