Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bonanza was prospected-and is mostly owned-by Canada's veteran gold miner, Dome Mines Ltd. Engineers of Dome stumbled on the deposit last August when they were frantically looking for something to replace moribund gold digging. Dome will spend $250,000 for new facilities, hopes to mine over 2,000,000 Ib. of the stuff annually-roughly 6% of world production and enough to supply practically all Canadian steel mills. To Dome this is a financial break: molybdenum sells for about 80? a Ib. At peak output the company should gross over $1,600,000 a year...
...problem of the cuckoo was a step nearer solution last week, with the publication of Cuckoo Problems (H.F. & G. Witherby, Ltd., London), an authoritative treatise on the somewhat wayward habits of large European and Asiatic cuckoos which lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, leave their young to be brought up by foster parents.* Author: the 78-year-old dean of British ornithologists, Edward Charles Stuart Baker, C.I.E.; O.B.E.; F.Z.S.; M.B.O.U.; H.F.A.O.U.; H.F.H.O.U.; F.L.S...
...Barclays Bank Ltd., Lloyds Bank Ltd., Midland Bank Ltd., National Provincial Bank Ltd., Westminster Bank Ltd...
London Asiatic Rubber & Produce Co. Ltd., with properties in Malaya, issued a report to comfort its stockholders...
...April 1, British Columbia Box, Ltd., which makes boxes for explosives and food sent to Britain, granted raises of between 2½? and 7½? an hour. Managing Director Andrew T. Harvey claimed last week that he had applied for permission, had received no Government denial. He protested that his employes had threatened to quit; that, with other plants paying higher wages, he had faced a labor shortage. But, under wartime law, it was too late for British Columbia Box to match other plants' wage scales. The fine...