Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light, gas, water, bus, railroad, and air interests. Continuing the policy of considering current events, the course will discuss the proposed regulations of motor transportation and the work of the Federal Railroad Coordinator with the suggested changes proposed in the reports of Mr. Eastman. The possibilities of public ownership will also enter the discussion as a possible alternative...
That afternoon at Birmingham, seat of rebellion against TVA, a crowd which jammed the railroad yards heard him call upon the populace, which voted solidly against public ownership of the city's light system year ago, to overrule "obstructionists, few in number in comparison with the whole population [who] are leaving no stone unturned to block and harass and to delay this great national program...
Results of public ownership propositions in local elections on Nov. 6 had been anything but reassuring. By last week it looked as if the utilities were in for one of their worst spells of political badgering. In Washington the Federal Trade Commission, in the eighth year of its holding company probe, released a fresh batch of hair-raising findings. The new Federal Communications Commission announced a thoroughgoing investigation into American Telephone & Telegraph Co. A.T. & T. stock promptly plunged $10 per share, and President Walter Sherman Gifford felt impelled to assure his security holders that there were no skeletons...
...power business. In Washington voters approved (2-to-1) the Bone Power Bill which authorizes municipalities to acquire power properties outside their corporate limits. Thus Seattle's plan of buying the $100,000,000 Puget Sound Power & Light Co. is now legally possible. In Minnesota the citizens endorsed public-ownership by re-electing Farmer-Laborite Governor Floyd Olson...
...roster of communities rejecting public ownership heartened few utility stockholders. Muskogee, Okla. refused to approve a $1,250,000 bond issue for a local plant. Mount Olive, N. J. also thumbed down a municipal system. In Morenci, Mich. the citizens voted 435-10-393 against a power bond issue...