Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie, The Secret of the Loch, provided four weeks' work for 20 unemployed men. Captain D. J. Munro,R.N. (retired), proposed to form a Loch Ness Monster Co., Ltd., to sell shares for a shilling each, and to put up watchtowers on the loch shore staffed by Navy men equipped with telescopic cameras, powerful binoculars, range finders, stop watches. In Germany, the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung announced that the monster had been captured, was on view in Edinburgh...
...Frederick Handley Page, managing director of Handley Page, Ltd., producer of big bombers—Knight Bachelor...
Norman Hartnell, Ltd., the much publicized couturiers who designed Queen Elizabeth's gowns for her visit to the U.S. in 1939, were fined $2,400 in London for breaking England's wartime laws limiting fur sales...
Died. Sir Jeremiah Colman, 82, millionaire mustard maker and famed orchid collector; in Reigate, England. Chairman of the board of J. & J. Colman, Ltd., founded by his grandfather, developed by his father, he liked to explain that his wealth was made "not by the mustard people ate, but by the mustard left on their plates...
Died. Sir Francis D'Arcy Cooper, 59, chairman of the giant Lever Brothers & Unilever, Ltd. (Sunlight soap in Britain, Lux in the U.S.); in Reigate, England. He succeeded to the chairmanship after the death of Lord Leverhulme...