Word: ltd
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Life in London. Zesty Founder John Bell began covering bare-knuckle prizefights in 1822, expanded his sheet to cover London low life from society scandals to East End bloodlettings. In 1886 Sporting Life bought Bell's copyright and was in turn bought in 1920 by Odhams Press Ltd., publisher of the Laborite Daily Herald (circ. 1,640,707) Sunday People...
...prize to date goes to Japan's optical and sewing-machine industries. Optics last year accounted for more than $8,000,000 of exports to the U.S. and Hitachi, Ltd., Japan's biggest producer of electron microscopes recently walked off with the grand prix at the Brussels Fair. As for sewing machines, the payoff on quality was never better demonstrated than by Fukoku Machine Co. In the last several years it has taken the lion's share of a $21 million U.S. market for Japanese sewing-machine heads, is swamped with U.S. orders for a new zigzag...
QUARTERLY EARNINGS 1st 2nd (in millions) METALS Aluminium Ltd. $ 5.3 5.1 Anaconda 6.1 4.6 OILS Amerada 5.6 4.3 Getty Oil 7.1 .9 AIRCRAFTS United Aircraft 11.5 10.8 General Dynamics 9.9 10.2 MISC...
Died. Brendan Bracken, since 1952 Viscount Bracken, 57, British publisher and industrialist, Minister of Information during World War II, retired Member of Parliament, board chairman of the Financial Times, onetime managing director of the Economist, board chairman of Union Corporation, Ltd., giant international mining concern; of throat cancer; in London. A carrot-topped Irishman who was brought up on a remote Australian sheep station, Bracken went to England at 15, began honing his invective facility and absorbing the wide sophistication that made him famous in Whitehall, in Mayfair and the City for wit and eloquence. In the '30s Bachelor...
...kidding can be wrapped up together? The soft-selling, satirical commercial had been tried before, and except for a few engaging specimens such as Bert and Harry Piel of Piel's Beer, had fallen into limbo. Stan was undeterred. Incorporating himself in Los Angeles as Freberg, Ltd. ("but not very"), he took a Latin motto ("Ars gratia pecuniae"-Art for money's sake) and put his talents on the market ("bizarre sales ideas, at a bizarre fee; but worth...