Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shipping?"Our Government during the War acquired a large merchant fleet, which should be transferred as soon as possible to private ownership and operation under conditions which would secure two results : first, and of prime importance, adequate means for national defense; second, adequate service to American commerce. . . . We must have a merchant marine which meets these requirements, and we shall have to pay the cost of its service...
Coal Problem?"The cost of coal has become unbearably high. . . . Those responsible for the conditions in this industry should undertake its reform and free it from any charge of profiteering. ... I do not favor Government ownership or operation of coal mines. . . . The supply of coal must be constant. In case of its prospective interruption, the President should have authority to appoint a commission empowered to deal with whatever emergency situation might arise...
...when and why you will read the book never for an instant obtrudes itself. The question is purely one of the lust for possession. It is not the content of the book that you want to master. It is the book itself, the hard, concrete reality of it, whose ownership you crave. You want its title, its binding, its vibrant individuality...
Last, and perhaps most important of the products of the mechanical revolution in journalism is the multiple ownership of newspapers, by which one man may control newspapers over the entire country. On this matter, Mr. Bliven can speak with especial poignancy, for he joined the staff of the Globe in 1919, and was its managing editor last May when Frank A. Munsey amalgamated it into his group of Manhattan journals. Says Mr. Bliven...
...shall have eggs." Radicals, such as Senator La Follette, favor drastic cuts in freight rates, saying: " The geese are suffering from a plethora. A little dieting will restore their egg-laying qualities." Railroad Labor is for outright cooking of the geese in the oven of Government ownership. The heads of the railways rise to hiss at all of these. " Out upon you," they cry, " the geese are just recovering their robust physique. Cook 'them, starve them, pen them up and they will never lay again! Yours for golden eggs." This last was the attitude vigorously expressed last week by Julius...