Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government built a spruce production railroad there to get out special woods for airplane construction. The lumbering now is mostly in private hands (Weyerhaeuser, Long-Bell, Northern Pacific) and the jagged boundaries of the new park (see map) reflect many compromises between private and public forest ownership...
...brothers put tough customers in their places, of his political opinions and longings for good days long-past. But if its final impression is one of confusion, The Silver Magnet gives a better picture of capital in a foreign land than many an economic treatise on imperialism and absentee ownership...
...Also approved was a plebiscite in which 1,000,000 members of the church will be polled in November on their attitude toward Government action for job security; Government ownership of utilities: labor organization; capitalism...
...report ownership of at least one automobile, although one reports, "None, scared of the damn things." Five own airplanes and 42 can pilot them, but the man who reported fright regarding automobiles comments, "God forbid." Less than half the class travels by plane at all, but 83 are regular passengers...
...mile area in Arkansas is the chief U. S. source of bauxite, from which aluminum is commercially derived. Mr. Rice says Alcoa controls 19? square miles of this supply, and also has vast foreign holdings. U. S. aluminum is made under the Hall and the Bradley processes. Alcoa got ownership of both patents around the turn of the century; then, realizing that when the patents expired it would no longer have its monopoly, began buying up power, tremendous amounts of which are needed in making aluminum. A sample arrangement, according to Lawyer Rice, was that with Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power...