Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shipping business, and President Coolidge appointed new men to the Shipping Board-men not enamored of government operation. Since these changes, the Shipping Board has met to consider its duty. Last week it voted to sell the three large merchant fleets remaining under U. S. ownership...
...owner, who do not like to see the advent of the 24-hour newspaper (morning and evening editions), he is first complacent: "In those cities in which I own either all of the newspapers or the only newspaper, the reading public and the advertisers are satisfied that this single ownership has not worked ... to the detriment of the community...
...Editor-Publisher J. David Stern, owner of the Evening Courier and the Morning Post of Camden, N. J., 42-year-old veteran of newspaper battles from Seattle, Wash., to Providence, R. I. Like the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (see above), the Record goes to a local boy. "New ownership," observed Mr. Stern, briefly, "implies no change in editorial policy...
...public mind. A treasury which is able to slice two hundred million dollars from federal taxes hardly needs how the income derived from the automobile war tax which belongs anyway to that strange series growths orginating in the feverish days of 1917 along with wheatless days, government ownership, and Thritt Stamps Too small to be of genuine importance in the Treasury, yet large enough to be an annoyance to purchasers of everything massed in the category of luxuries by the wartime administrators, war taxes have been allowed to exist for a decade, mainly through the failure of Congress to remove...
...bought the 25 White Star Line ships from the most important U. S. shipping enterprise, J. P. Morgan's International Mercantile Marine Co. for ?7,000,000 (TIME, May 17, 1926, et seq.). Last year he predicted a profitable year for the White Star Line under British ownership...