Word: commonnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Community of True Inspiration had seen enough of the outside world, by way of mail order catalogs and passing motorists, to want a change. The 1,400 colonists did not, however, split up their $2,060,000 common property. They formed a corporation under the laws of Delaware, issued one share of common (voting) stock to every adult, issued preferred stock in proportion to years of service. They now work for wages. Nevertheless, Amana Society still provides free medical care and burial, gives its members a 10% discount at general stores, a 665% discount at drug stores. Chief Amana products...
...change which the Nazi State is about to make-the fundamental change of rewriting German law "so as to give the German people a new conception of property rights." While the text of Adolf Hitler's coming new Law of Property is a state secret, the journal German Common & Economic Law last week carried official predictions that soon in German law "there will be no need and no room for abstract rights of property." As an example of how this is going to work out, anxious German property owners were advised last week to see a new Nazi cinema...
...story of a German steel tycoon, a character suggesting Krupp, who comes to the conclusion that his heirs scarcely deserve to inherit the vast works he has built up and it must go to the stalwart Nazi workmen who have toiled for him all these years. According to German Common & Economic Law, in such cases "considerations of proximity" shall rule-that is, if the heirs by blood are all splendid Germans of ''pure race" and patriotism, the estate may rightly go to them, but should they be otherwise the "superior proximity" of the Nazi workmen to their boss...
Half a century ago these great vultures, with bald orange heads and wingspreads up to eleven feet, were common in California. Then ranchers began to push back toward the mountains, spread poisoned carcasses for wolves, foxes, coyotes. Condors gobbled these, also made fine targets for riflemen. In 1910 California passed a law forbidding condor killing, providing stiff fines and jail sentences for the offense...
...dreaming and scribbling in the World's libraries pens a humble request to a librarian to be allowed to take out reference books after hours: "I would return them by the morning." Realist, necessitarian to the last, he ends the final letter with the same old plea for common sense: "You have been carried away by your thoughts...