Word: ltd
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
DIED. Maxwell Joseph, 72, entrepreneur who founded Britain's eighth largest publicly owned company, Grand Metropolitan Ltd.; of cancer; in London. Starting in 1944 with a single London hotel, he parlayed an investment of a few thousand dollars into an empire that includes hotels, restaurants, catering, dairies, one of the world's largest wine and spirit companies and a vast gambling network. An avid gardener and stamp collector, the hotel tycoon managed to work a mere four hours a day and once said, "I do not want to become a prisoner of wealth, weighed down by responsibility...
Only three months earlier. IBM security men helped the FBI pull off another sting by nabbing five employees of Hitachi, Ltd., and Mitsubishi Electric Corp., two leading Japanese electronics firms. They were accused of conspiring to transport stolen IBM property out of the U.S. In the same investigation, a middle manager of National Advanced Systems, a subsidiary of California-based National Semiconductor Corp., was arrested for receiving stolen goods. Last week IBM filed suit against Hitachi and National Semiconductor, charging them with unfair competition through the use of confidential IBM materials...
...came from Fireman's Fund Insurance Companies, the world's largest insurer of movie productions and the eighth biggest American property and liability underwriter. The brokerage business from its subsidiary Shearson contributed another 20% to earnings. Additional parts of the diversified corporate empire include Mitchell Beazley Ltd., the British publisher of the bestselling manual The Joy of Sex, and half ownership of Warner Amex Cable Communications Inc., which has more than 1 million cable television subscribers in 27 states...
That was wishful thinking. The next skirmish in the contest of wills was already set to take place in Scotland, where a Soviet vessel was expected to pick up the first six U.S.-designed turbines ordered from Britain's John Brown Engineering Ltd. The British, like the French, are taking a hard line, demanding that their pipeline suppliers ignore the U.S. ban. Said a senior British official: "We are not going to be bullied by Washington...
...attention has recently been on the Japanese, the Soviets are the main focus of Operation Exodus and other campaigns. Insiders say that what the press had dubbed the Japan-scam sting operation was really a trap laid for Communist agents. In that case, the FBI arrested employees of Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and charged them with conspiring to transport stolen IBM computer secrets from California's Silicon Valley, near San Francisco, to Japan...