Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Perky Warren? To last week's off-Broadway audience he was only a nice old Canadian eccentric who likes people, but Toronto's Bay Street financiers know him as the 62-year-old onetime president of Gutta Percha & Rubber, Ltd., a latex prince descended from some of the red, white and bluest blood in North America; e.g., Priscilla Mullins' John Alden, Connecticut's Revolutionary Governor Jonathan Trumbull. At home in Toronto, his closest companions are his 13-year-old beagle Tobey and his solicitors, Ricketts, Farley & Lowndes...
...those familiar national caricatures, says John Treasure, managing director of British Market Research Bureau Ltd., "the stereotype of the typical Englishman is changing; the 'new Englishman' lives in a home with central heating, drinks canned beer or soda pop while watching television (having just eaten a wimpyburger), has corn flakes for breakfast, washes with Lux soap, dries his hands on a paper towel and has an ice-cream bar for a snack...
...views coincide with the recommendations made earlier this month to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Conlon Associates Ltd. at the conclusion of a study requested by that committee. Of course I knew that Chiang Kai-shek was the most cherished of TIME'S sacred cows but, even so, the extent of your personal attack, distortions and inaccuracies surprised...
...flourish in Hong Kong because of lack of water and trained workers. Besides, there was the powerful new force of Japanese competition. But Chen Che Lee, a wealthy young Shanghai cotton manufacturer, fooled the experts. In 1946, with $1,500,000 borrowed from friends, Lee established South China Textile, Ltd., the first major textile mill in Hong Kong. Over the past decade, problems have been over come, and from Lee's daring example has grown an industry that this year will ex port $110 million worth of garments. So successful is Hong Kong as a garment center that...
...February 1955, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, then board chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., received shocking news. General Electric Co. had succeeded in making a synthetic diamond. Hastily, the world's diamond king conferred with De Beers' top officials, finally said: "If it must be, then De Beers must do it too. We cannot stick our heads in the sand." Last week De Beers finally did it; the company announced that it had developed a synthetic diamond to compete with G.E.'s highly successful man-made stones as industrial abrasives...