Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While lawyers wrangle over past romances, adventurous spirits still persist in creating complications. If precedent be followed, the Wilkins expedition will cause a dispute over the ownership of further frigid patches of the Arctic ocean...
...recommendations of the Commission are very important since they embody the ultimate solution of the problem. The report urges that private ownership come to an end and that the coal be the property of the nation. Then with the application of capital and scientific methods on a large scale England could hope to compete with the United States and Germany...
Economics 2, Professor Gay, Harvard 1, "Transportation Since 1860: Trend Toward Ownership in Europe...
Amnesty, Gift. The Congress "granted" amnesty to all Soviet Russian soldiers and "confirmed" to the Russian peasants the ownership of all lands granted them by the Soviet government, in hopes of winning their onetime subjects' gratitude and support...
...true that the Calles regime has sanctioned such a lease, its purpose may have been to place the American government in an embarrassing position. The Japanese lease violates the new law against foreign ownership the application of which provoked the recent interchange of notes between Mexico and Washington. The present situation, however, may force the Administration to reverse its policy, by demanding that this law be enforced against all foreigners. Such action would place American diplomacy in a more just position...