Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loan ($1,200,000,000) announced fortnight ago by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon. This first major fiscal barrage of Great Britain in World War II had to go over with a triumphant rumble of "Oversubscribed!"-or else. The waiting clerks gossiped that Distillers Co., Ltd. was buying $4,000,000 worth, Prudential Assurance Co., Ltd. $20,000,000, and there was said to be "hardly any stagging...
...Procter & Gamble Co. (Ivory); No. 3: Lever Bros. (Lifebuoy, Rinso, Lux), U. S. subsidiary of mammoth British Lever Bros. & Unilever, Ltd., No. 1 world soapmakers...
...South took this very hard, feared the permanent loss of a vital market for its No. 2 cash crop, of which Imperial Tobacco Co., Ltd. usually bought as much as a third. The 1939 tobacco price was saved from ruin when Commodity Credit Corp. spent some $30,000,000 taking the British share off the auctions. But the South could not expect that much help every year...
Least commercial artist in the U. S. is probably lean Georgia O'Keeffe, who paints in luminous colors skulls, flowers, feathers, barns and New Mexico. Last winter Hawaiian Pineapple Co. Ltd. (Dole pineapple) plucked up its courage, asked Artist O'Keeffe to go to Hawaii and paint two pictures for it. She agreed, on condition that she could paint whatever she pleased...
...supplies, tugboats, bus lines, a brewery, a laundry, he owns or manages Shanghai's best hotels, apartments and office buildings, including Cathay Mansions where the National City Bank has just taken new space. But above all Sir Victor is a banker himself. His E. D. Sassoon Banking Co., Ltd., buys and sells currencies on the old Rothschild basis of advance information, refuses to align itself with British, Chinese or American banks in support of the Chinese dollar, takes an impartial trading profit on either side. Money-wise Sir Victor spends about six months a year in Shanghai, three...