Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal Trade Commission, which watches over product advertising, will have an additional regulatory role no matter what the outcome. Some promotional campaigns for bottled water have sought to boost sales by attacking the quality of municipal drinking water. Schweppes Ltd. found the reception chilly when it developed plans to test-market bottled water in Philadelphia with ads that slurred the city's water supply. Fear of official complaints prompted the company to abandon the project before it got started...
...shaped nose has been slightly blunted. The Ford Torino will have a new oval-shaped grille, and the Continental Mark IV will be 4 in. longer. The Mercury Montego, which has not sold well in 1971, is being made to look like the better-selling Ford LTD...
Advertising the world over is becoming more permissive and explicit. Last week, for the first time in North America, the Canadian Radio-TV Commission approved television commercials for a contraceptive. The product is Delfen foam, made by Ortho Pharmaceutical Ltd., a Toronto-based subsidiary of the U.S.'s Johnson & Johnson. Beginning in about a month, the 60-second color commercial will show a mother and child, with a sound track of cooing and gurgling. The message will stress family planning and will be carried only after...
Gambling Junkets. Elsewhere in Asia, gambling is going legitimate so fast that Continental Consolidated Ltd., an American-dominated Hong Kong company that manages casinos in South Korea and Malaysia, is preparing a new kind of junket, a tour of the area's biggest gaming places. The Diners' Club in Singapore has even agreed to take tourists up to Genting Highlands and let them gamble on their credit cards...
...Shanghai Banking Corp. has been a steady source of his financing. With its backing, Pao charts the course for his 63-ship fleet through a baffling array of tax-haven companies in Liberia and the Bahamas. The empire is managed through Pao's personal company, World-Wide (Shipping) Ltd...