Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cause of the turmoil was Law 75, promulgated in Frankfurt last fortnight by the Anglo-U.S. military commanders in Bizonia, Generals Sir Brian Robertson and Lucius D. Clay. Law 75 transfers ownership of the Ruhr coal, iron and steel industries to temporary German trustees, and provides that when a freely elected democratic German government is able to do so, it shall decide the question of private or public ownership. The reason given for Law 75 was that the promise of eventual German ownership would raise morale among German workers and managers, and therefore raise production...
...legislation "to protect the coast from erosion by the sea ... to encourage the development of the whitefish industry and to provide for safer milk ... to improve water supplies to Scotland . . ." And finally he came to the explosive paragraph: "A measure will be laid before you to bring under public ownership those companies extensively engaged in the production of iron ore, or of pig iron or steel or in the shaping of steel by a rolling process...
Britain's Hector McNeil bitingly bore down on Vishinsky's reactionary nationalism. a"As a junior Socialist," he said, "I find it a little unusual to find my revoludenary friend objecting to such a concept as international ownership...
...Chicago, the trustbusters launched a federal grand jury investigation to determine if Du Pont had violated antitrust laws in its stock ownership or dealings with General Motors Corp., U.S. Rubber
Socialist: for President, Norman Thomas, 63 (for the sixth time) ; for Vice President, Tucker P. Smith, professor of economics at Michigan's Olivet College. Advocating public ownership of natural resources, basic industries and credit, the Socialists denounced Henry Wallace as "an apologist for the slave state of Russia and the preacher of peace by blind appeasement." The party polled 884,000 votes in 1932, dropped...