Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrats now were who would inherit the receivership of the party, and who would be charged with the job of rebuilding for 1952? Those questions would not be decided at the convention. But rebellious Southerners were still threatening to hold their long-planned Birmingham meeting to discuss the future ownership of the party. That new struggle would occupy the efforts of wrangling Democratic politicos for the next four years...
...Sort of Hobby. Nowadays, the fully-booked Ritz is as fashionable as ever-but not because of its prices ($4 to $20 a day). Even at that, the hotel manages to make a "reasonable" annual profit (which is never announced by the private ownership), maintaining a record that has been unbroken except for two years during the depressed...
...only 3.34%, and Alleghany is controlled by Young through an interest of less than 1%. Young's interest in Central, "when traced down through Alleghany and the C. & O. amounts to 0.00006% ... so small as to give no positive assurance of the benefits said to follow from such ownership representation...
...week exactly as prescribed by the script. Howard Hughes gave an $8,825,690 check to Atlas Corp.'s Floyd Odium for its 929,020 shares of stock (24%)-and control-of Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. (TIME, May 10). (Atlas still kept an interest in RKO by its ownership of warrants to buy some 300,000 shares of stock.) Despite ample warnings of the change, RKO's staff got so jittery over their new boss that RKO President Nathaniel Peter Rathvon had to pour out soothing syrup: "Mr. Hughes has no hungry army of relatives looking for your...
Selznick agreed to lend Korda his constellation of stars* in return for western hemisphere ownership of all pictures they might make in England. For the first time, Korda had something like the weight he needs to wrestle with Rank for the British box office. He promptly made plans to star Jennifer Jones in a Technicolor version of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Gregory Peck in a Technicolored Tale of Two Cities. Also on the schedule: Joseph Conrad's An Outcast of the Islands, Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point, Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, Jules...