Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Nazi bombers have flown in waves over the English Channel, preparing for Adolf Hitler's invasion of Britain, the cliffs of Dover are the world's best press box for newsmen and photographers. There, one day last week, a cameraman from Planet News Ltd., top-flight British picture agency, snapped the biggest dogfight of the war to date in a darkening...
...Government's charges: 1) that Alcoa monopolizes 100% of U. S. capacity for smelting bauxite ore into aluminum ingots; 2) that it monopolizes 90-95% of the U. S.'s scanty bauxite deposits; 3) that through a "stooge" associate, Canada's $80,000,000 Aluminium Ltd., Alcoa controls world production and prices. These controls, claims the Government, have caused a stringency in aluminum production that may interfere with national defense...
About five years ago Sir William Firth, handsome kinetic chairman of Richard Thomas & Co., Ltd., ?23,000,000 British steel firm, decided that Britain should have at least one modern continuous strip rolling mill, U. S. type. He got his mill (at Ebbw Vale, South Wales), but in financing it he lost control of Richard Thomas & Co. First his own bank, Lloyds, refused a loan, called in an overdraft, nearly strangled Thomas & Co. with a working-capital shortage. The Bank of England agreed to make the loan, but extracted an issue of prior-rights stock and put some...
ARCHIBALD F. KEY Managing Editor The Plaindealer Press Ltd. Drumheller, Alberta...
...made clear why it authorized the new line in spite of violent protests from Pan Am: When foreign nations begin competing for Atlantic airlanes, two U. S. air lines may come in handy. Great Britain announced last week that Airways Atlantic, Ltd., subsidiary of big British Overseas Airways Corp. which canceled its survey flights last October, would begin airmail & passenger service within 30 days from "somewhere in England" to New York City's LaGuardia Field-pending CAB approval...