Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convention, drove his opponents to fresh despair while his naïve economic reasoning infuriated them. To them, there seemed to be no effective way of bridling this evangel of nonsense. What Mr. Sinclair proposed to do, as they saw it, was to plant a system of Red State-ownership in California, expand it, without limit, until it crushed private enterprise. EPIC, Mr. Sinclair pointed out, could also stand for "End Poverty In Civilization...
...Sweden's upturn they had many other reasons: the great public works program begun in 1933; the thrift and conservatism of Swedes; the exemplary caution of Swedish savings banks; the huge cooperative union controlling nearly one-half of Sweden's trade in food and clothing; and Government ownership of the Swedish railways, telegraph and most of the telephone system, one-third of the mines and 80% of household electricity...
Indeed for half a century, while the company was growing to its great pre-War prosperity, only one stock record book was used. Until 1930 when it was recapitalized the ownership of the $35,000,000 corporation was represented by only 480 shares of stock...
Concordia-a pleasant name for any town. It sounded particularly pleasant to utility men last week, worried night & day as they are about where the rash of public ownership will next break out on the body politic. Missouri Public Service Co. has a power plant at Concordia, Mo. The city fathers applied for a PWA loan-grant to build a municipal plant. In a Kansas City Federal court the private power company promptly prayed for an injunction, ordering the town government to desist and refrain from its purpose...
...business apparently reached, the lowest levels of the current depression, the chains, as well as the independent retailers, found it very difficult to operate at a profit. Although variety and grocery chains succeeded in making fair earnings before charging interest on owned capital, department store chains and department store ownership groups typically incurred substantial