Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year before. Imperial Oil Ltd. -Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) subsidiary- had sent young Theodore Augustus Link, fresh out of the University of Chicago, to sound out the possibilities. Lanky Dr. Link made his surveys, waited over the winter, after the ice left set out on Great Slave Lake with a motorboat, two scows overloaded with supplies, drill crews and an ox named "Nig." Eventually, after the ox had hauled the rig into position, the drillers...
...which he reportedly gets $1,500 a week. He lectured widely, for fat fees. He edited I Believe (1939) and Reading I've Liked (1941). He bought stock in a wine company. With his two brothers, Edwin and William, he operates a flourishing radio talent agency, Fadiman Associates, Ltd. He is on the editorial committee of The Readers Club, a book-of-the-monthly sort of organization that deals in $1.25 classics. Estimates of his income go as high as $100,000 a year, beside which his New Yorker salary was peanuts...
Three terse, vivid pages of description open the novel and set the scene. The main factory of Elmdown Aircraft Co. Ltd. comprises acres of windowless con crete camouflaged in a misty hollow in the South Midlands, ten miles from the nearest town. Says Priestley, "take away these drawing offices, these toolmakers' sheds, these long rows of machines, these workers on assembly, and within ten days the whip is at your back. All the brave, drilled men, willing to rush toward death, all the flags and national anthems, all the patriotic speeches, cannot rescue a people now. Without such factories...
California's Consolidated Steel Corp. Ltd. this week flopped the frigate U.S.S. San Pedro into the Pacific Ocean, wrote down a fat new total of ship launchings -268. With satisfaction the 40,000 Consolidated employes (up from 800 in 1938) went to work to add a white star to their blue Maritime Commission "M" flag...
Consolidated Steel Corporation, Ltd...