Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that during the next 30 years put him into every facet of the petroleum business. During World War II, big (6 ft. 2 in., 200 Ibs.), craggy-faced Ken Jamieson was appointed an Ottawa-based oil liaison officer between the Canadian and U.S. Governments. When peace came, Imperial Oil Ltd., the Canadian subsidiary of Standard Oil (New Jersey), made him a lucrative offer, and he accepted even though he had reservations about "just ending up in the back office...
...government," sniffed the Melbourne Herald, Australia's largest evening paper. Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, 57, had not been caught in flagrante delicto; rather his wife Margaret, 54, was being heckled about her latest job. A trained social worker, Margaret Whitlam is a director of the Commonwealth Hostels Ltd., an organization that administers government housing. "Drop it, Meg," was the Herald's blunt advice. But Mrs. Whitlam, whose liberal views on abortion, sex and marijuana have shocked Australians in the past, held on. "I've subjugated myself for an entire year," she said, adding that even official trips...
...Raymond Brookes, chairman of Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds Ltd. engineering group, is one of a growing number of industrial leaders who feel that the time has come for Heath to settle with the miners: "I've been down three coal mines in my life, and each time I've said, 'If I had to work there, I'd want paying to go to work and paying again when I'd done it.' " If opposition within Heath's own party continues to grow, he may find himself fighting not just the miners...
Like Gulliver among the Lilliputians, Dentsu Advertising Ltd. has long dominated the business of mass selling in Japan, and its roster of clients gleams with famous names: Toyota, Pepsi-Cola, Nestle, Max Factor. The agency operates in one of the world's ripest ad markets: the Japanese watch more television than any other people, and are even more brand-conscious than Americans. Helped by a booming economy and a rising currency in recent years, Dentsu has grown particularly fast. In 1972 it elbowed McCann-Erickson out of second place in global billings, and now it has become...
...fewer than 13 tankers out of the Libyan port of Ras Lanuf discharged crude at Borco. As recently as Dec. 8, the tanker Heythrop out of Ras Lanuf unloaded 513,135 bbl. of crude at the Borco refinery, according to Robert Bunford, executive vice president of E.H. Mundy & Co. Ltd., another Freeport marine broker, which arranged the transaction. No one will talk about whether additional Libyan shipments have come in since then...