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Word: ownership (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...help stabilize their industry. A committee of operators, conferring in Manhattan under the guidance of President Walter C. Teagle of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, and President W. S. Parish of Humble Oil & Refining Co., had asked him to go on the difficult mission. They represented ownership of three-quarters of the Oklahoma wells and to that extent expected success for Emissary Collins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Organized Production | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

...What this [west] section does require from its railroads and what it is not receiving in proper measure, is prompt response to public demands for service. Translated for the railroad stockholder that means prompt response to the opportunity for profit. The fault, we suspect, is largely one of absentee ownership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: R. R. Ownership | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...recognizes no will but his own. It is therefore necessary to please each individual and the number of mirrors, glass beads and other trinkets which must be carried is deplored by the white trader or explorer. Furthermore the native's absolute disregard of social status based on property ownership and his perfect satisfaction with his lot makes him impossible as a laborer. In this respect the native of New Guinea furnishes a strong contrast to his industrious neighbor on the Island of Java...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peabody Museum Explorer Tells of Peculiar Dietetics of New Guinea Natives--Papuans Are Linguistically Isolated | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

Princeton, N. J. February 28--The Senior Council of Princeton tendered its resignation today as a result of the prohibition of student ownership and operation of automobiles by the Board of Trustees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON SENIOR COUNCIL TENDERS ITS RESIGNATION | 3/1/1927 | See Source »

...taking this action we wish it to be clear that we are expressing neither objection nor approval regarding the substance of the act of the Board of Trustees forbidding student ownership and operation of automobiles, but that we are expressing objection to the principle involved in its passage. The Senior Council

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON SENIOR COUNCIL TENDERS ITS RESIGNATION | 3/1/1927 | See Source »

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