Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know that the word "freedom" means different things to different people and so we want to find out, for instance, what the French Socialist thinks as compared to the American private enterpriser. In each country, therefore, we are asking for opinions about private ownership of business, the right to vote in a fair and free election, protection from interference by the police, the right to work at any job, and the right of free speech...
...Supremacy of the Cop. In countries truer to Marx, where control of The Machine has actually been taken away from the capitalist, the most extraordinary growth occurred in the meaning of "control." Control of production by "the state," in place of ownership by private people, turned out to need bolstering up. It meant control of speech, thought and personal life. It was not the freed worker who replaced the capitalist; it was the cop, the spy, the bureaucrat...
...ancient prerogative, the King shares ownership of Thames swans between Southwark Bridge and Henley with two City companies - the Worshipful Companies of Dyers and Vintners. Each July, in ceremonies known as "swan-upping," swan markers round up the flocks and allocate the young cygnets. One nick is made in the lower bill to mark a Dyers' swan, two for a Vintners'; His Majesty's go nickless...
This did not mean that the big-time musician resented Petrillo or particularly criticized his royal plan for dispensing royalties. For Petrillo had at least blasted a way toward discussion of the ownership of canned music. The antiquated U.S. copyright laws provide that only the copyright owner shall receive music royalties -ignoring the musician and recording firm, the artificers who put the music into salable form. If a disc jockey and a radio station collect revenue from the commercial use of the product, why not the men who made it? Petrillo was not the first to ask this question...
...million Mexican Ericsson Co. was owned by Sweden Ericsson Co. Wenner-Gren got it by swapping some of his Swedish securities. With Mexican Ericsson, he got its 49% ownership of the rival Mexicana Telephone & Telegraph Co. The other 51% of Mexicana is owned by International Telephone & Telegraph Co. (see above). For that, Wenner-Gren agreed to pay I.T. & T. some $11 million, raised by selling other Swedish holdings and using U.S. dollars earned by his stock in Servel, Inc. (refrigerators) and Electrolux Corp. (vacuum cleaners...