Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were living in a house in which we had a part ownership we would doubtless be interested in those who shared this house with us. It would not please us at all if their part of the house was dirty, contaminated with cockroaches and other bugs that would swarm into our section...
...whim of imponderable elements beyond their ken or control and give free rein to huge competing combines that must, by their very nature, reach the point of saturation, obsolescence, and final destruction, a survey of present day democracy gives pause to those who wish to believe that in public ownership or control there lies a solution for periodic industrial collapse. Legislatures composed of individuals apparently forced to spend as much as possible for the delight of local constituents make the trusteeship of common welfare a grisly political farce...
...John North Willys will soon return to active management of Willys-Overland Co. were commented on last week by the Ambassador to Poland: "The management of the Willys-Overland Co. is in the hands of the president and directorate, elected by common stockholders. My present financial interest ... is the ownership of a large block of preferred stock, which becomes voting stock after four quarterly dividends have been omitted. On April 1 the third will have been omitted...
Almost ignored for the past decade, the U. S. housing problem has come rapidly to the fore since President Hoover's Conference on Home Building & Home Ownership last December. The U. S. is poorly housed. Probably less than half of its homes measure up to "minimum standards of health and decency." Its slums are among the worst in the world. Only one out of four farms has central light and heat, running water, a bathroom. One source of improvement will come from putting attractive homes within the reach of the small wage-earner who hitherto has given...
Depression has knocked the building industry into the subbasement. On the theory that a revival of construction would fan its beneficial effects out into countless allied trades and manufactures, President Hoover called his Home Building & Home Ownership Conference two months ago (TIME, Dec. 14), urged its attendants to get busy and encourage the building of houses. Now pending before Congress is a bill to create a Federal Home Loan Discount system to safeguard mortgages and open up fresh credit for private building (TIME, Nov. 23). A variety of communal plans have been offered in an effort to get the building...