Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...average of 15% during that period. For example, the cost of Ford's latest subcompact Pinto has climbed 27%, to $2,919; Plymouth's Duster is up 29%, to $3,243. By contrast, full-size Dodge Monacos have increased 18%, to $4,605, and Ford's LTD...
...Bombs. Lately, though, some of his activities had been running into trouble. A wine company that he owned called Connoisseurs of Claret, Ltd. lost more than $100,000 in 1973. The general manager of the London Capital Group, a dizzy assortment of investment interests controlled by Stonehouse, and the managing director of his trading company, Global Imex, both resigned last summer claiming that Stonehouse owed them $35,000. Stonehouse put a country house that he bought two years ago up for sale and closed Global Imex's office in Bangladesh. It was apparently in search of additional financing...
...said, adding generously, "Had we a greatly corrupted great man like Churchill, I would come back and live in Britain, pay taxes and if necessary, sweep the streets." ∎ "These days nobody expects Miss World to be a blue-eyed virgin," said Julia Morley of the British organization, Mecca Ltd., that runs the annual contest. She should know. Last year's Miss World, Marjorie Wallace of Indiana, was dethroned by Mecca after 14 weeks because her busy love life was grabbing the headlines. This year the judges went out of their way to avoid looking so stuffy. They chose...
...picture remains gloomy despite record prices for trade-ins. Ford and GM have generated figures showing the apparent ease of new-car purchases leveraged by higher used-car value. A two-year-old, fully equipped Ford LTD, for example, would bring $2,700 now, v. $2,225 a year ago, helping offset the higher 1975 LTD price of $5,243. A two-year-old Chevy Impala, says GM, is worth $376 more this year than last year, while a year-old Firebird brings $725 more. Even so, most owners cannot take advantage of higher values for late models. Reason: trade...
Earlier this month a delegation led by Denis Hamilton, editor in chief of the Tunes Newspapers, Ltd., and Hetherington of the Guardian visited Employment Secretary Michael Foot. Their purpose: to ensure that editors stay free of the closed-shop proviso. Foot, a veteran Labor leftist, former journalist and member of the N.U.J., was unmoved...