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Homebound aboard the liner Aquitania in 1926, a group of British industrialists traveling together decided to merge four struggling chemical firms into a new company called Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. In a surprising departure from British formality, they scribbled out the new company's compact on a sheet of Cunard Line writing paper. Over the years since then I.C.I, has become Britain's Du Pont...
...said wickedly. Undermine would have been a better word. When Measure for Measure opened?with people like John Gielgud and Terence Rattigan in the audience, for the O.U.D.S. was as important then as now?guess who was striding the boards as Angelo.- Binky Beaumont of H. M. Tennent Ltd., London's most powerful theatrical producer, was also there. He told Richard to stay alive and look him up when his Oxford and R.A.F. days were done...
...Amerada Petroleum 500 117 58,500 Canadian Superior Oil 1,000 13 13,000 Dome Petroleum Ltd. 2,000 12 24,000 Superior Oil of California...
Utilities Calgary Power Ltd. 15,000 19 28,500 Delaware Power & Light 400 51 20,400 Northern Illinois Gas 400 63 25,200 Peoples Gas Light & Coke...
...competitors insist that it is not even a part of Japan's auto industry, and one Japanese automaker sneers that it is "in the toy business." Some toy. Hiroshima's thriving Toyo Kogyo Co. Ltd. outproduced all other Japanese automakers last year and had the industry's fattest profit margin on sales of $231,500,000. This month it turned out its millionth vehicle...