Word: monopolist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago, after Mexico's magazine Manama had published a piece calling him a "musical monopolist" who didn't give young musicians a chance, Chávez roared back. Hot-blooded, he called his assailant "a veritable calumniator ... an infantile mind." Then, last week, two out of Mexico City's three leading critics jumped in. One called Chávez "a cacique [a corrupt political boss] who dominates all musical roads." Another came to his defense: "He's still the best...
...expert on the Russian press. Last week at Lake Success, U.N. Delegate Lomakin enlightened U.N.'s Subcommission on Freedom of Information and of the Press. What was it, he asked, that kept Russia and the West from getting on with the peace? Why, it was those warmongering, imperialist, monopolist newspapers of the U.S. and Britain. They have too much freedom and "they trade in news as one trades in tobacco products . . . [for] profit." He wanted a resolution to punish them...
...most significant confession it had ever made of the inadequacy of its state-monopoly trade system, Communist Russia started beating the drums last week for something suspiciously like the profit motive. Pravda proclaimed that the "monopolist" position of state stores was hurting trade and lowering production. It demanded "healthy competition." Andrei Zhdanov, the Politburo's rising spokesman, said that consumer cooperatives must be encouraged. The Kremlin promptly did so, with five capitalistic incentive devices...
...great vice of the BBC is timidity. The BBC is a monopoly, but it is in the opposite position to the traditional monopolist. It cannot defy the public; just because it is fair game for everybody, it cannot afford to offend anyone. . . . The BBC in fact, exhibits all the vices that might be expected from a state-run cultural institution. It should not be blamed; it is doing its best...
...Japanese economy, under the control of a militarist-monopolist class, has been girding for a world war for a decade, but it was never cut out for the role. Japan lacks...