Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Transamerica, most of whom are small-money Westerners who admire old A. P. Among them they will absorb more than half the issue. To assure widespread distribution, nobody can buy more than $50,000 worth (without special permission). Heading the syndicate are Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., John J. Bergen & Co., Ltd. and Cyrus Eaton's Otis & Co. of Cleveland, a widespread-distributionist from way back. Among the 80 underwriters, conspicuously few are Wall Street firms...
...proceeds to impoverished Irish hospitals. R. J. Duggan, the bookmaker, had experience: he had run sweepstakes before. Joseph McGrath, the politician, had a flock of friends: he had been Minister of Labor under President Griffith. With the Bail's consent, Duggan & McGrath formed the Irish Hospitals' Trust, Ltd...
...nation's most important industries, the firm employed 3,000 office workers (swelled to 5,000 during sweeps-time), had the largest payroll of any firm in Eire with the exception of Guinness Brewery. In ten years Irish Hospitals' Trust, Ltd. had collected ?60,870,000 (more than half of it in U. S. dollars), had donated ?14,000,000 to Eire's hospitals, had given the Irish Free State some ?200,000 a year in taxes...
Last week, Irish Hospitals' Trust, Ltd. served dismissal notices to its employes, announced voluntary liquidation. Reason: the war had thrown a monkey wrench into its sensitive international sales organization and the take is too small. For last fortnight's Sweeps on the Grand National, only ?224,500 was collected. In Dublin, rumor had it that Promoter McGrath (Duggan is dead) will soon organize a new company-to establish an Irish Monte Carlo, known as Killarney...
...Minister of Food who knew something about dealing with the public, the Prime Minister sagely went outside the Cabinet and hired a shopkeeper tycoon-Frederick James Marquis, Lord Woolton, banker, insuranceman and chairman of Lewis's Ltd., a chain of Midlands department stores. He used to criticize Neville Chamberlain's "parsimony"; when Chamberlain was Chancellor of the Exchequer. Day after Lord Woolton joined the Cabinet Mrs. Chamberlain introduced him at a"Better Cookery" campaign meeting as follows: "Since arrangements for this meeting have been made some body has been busy changing Cabinet Ministers around." (Laughter.) Thin-lipped thin...