Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan, in brief, provides: 1) That the Government shall retain ownership of Muscle Shoals; 2) that at any time the Government may take over the plant on five days' notice for the manufacture of nitrates for war purposes; 3) that the operators of the plant are to produce 40,000 tons of fertilizer annually after the fourth year and sell it at a profit of not over 8%; 4) that the Secretary of War is to lease the plant for 50 years to a private enterprise, on these conditions and on others concerning the disposal of surplus power...
...Subsidizing our merchant marine, and turning it over completely to private ownership...
Senator LaFollette attacked the "special privilege" which "honeycombed" the old Parties. Mr. Wheeler stung the personal records of Coolidge and Dawes. But in part, at least, LaFollette and Wheeler were kept on the defensive about their Supreme Court proposal, about Government ownership of the railways. Yet they made a brilliant campaign...
...many months it has been recognized that the Soviets have abandoned the attempt to establish communion by force. The first effort to impose collective ownership of all equipment, all land, and all products has been relaxed, and under the individualistic regime, the agencies unhampered by communistic control have advanced in number, prosperity, and importance...
Predictions adverse to collectivism have been fully justified. Commerce, and that means all distributive channels, have come into the hands of private operatives. Industry is on the way toward individual direction and ownership. Agriculture has continuously maintained its individualistic character and among the farming artels neither the character of the families engaged for the quality of the finally measurable returns lead the most enthusiastic doctrinaire to expect any strengthening of the collectivist ideal among the people of Russia...