Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator McGrath is the political protege and law partner of Rhode Island's other U.S. Senator: 80-year-old Theodore Francis Green. In Providence, McGrath has banking, insurance and other interests, including part-ownership in Rhode Island's Lincoln Downs race track (McGrath reputedly has about $8 million). His talent for politics is as well developed as his ambition and business shrewdness. He started ringing doorbells for the Democratic Party before he was out of Providence College, has held almost every party job from ward heeler up. He was his state's governor three times. He demonstrated...
Family Seats. Said an ageing count: "I do hope those impossible Poles will see the desirability of at least having us return to manage the agriculture of the district, even if formal ownership, temporarily at least, must be withheld from...
...precision" by a formula provided by the steel institute. Even though cheaper truck or water transportation might actually be used, the formula allegedly bases delivery prices on all-rail freight and assesses arbitrary "switching charges." The result, said FTC, is the same as if "all mills were under one ownership and control...
...Nazi mold, with which Molotov had more than a newspaper reader's acquaintance during the piping days of German-Russian war collaboration, 1939-41 (see cut). But the Soviet Union had also developed another kind of economic pincers-the so-called "joint company." The pattern was 50-50 ownership by the Soviet Union and the local government, 100% administration by Soviet-picked executives. The function of the joint companies was to keep goods flowing into Russia. Through the joint-stock company and alleged reparations, Moscow had seized drum-tight control over...
...Lake Success, the U.S.S.R.'s Alex, ander P. Morozov (a non-Miltonian) told a UNESCO committee that it was all very simple: "a small group of monopolists" kept most of the world press in chains; "communal ownership" (state monopoly) kept the Russian press free (by which a Russian means faithful to the Party dogma). There ought to be a law, he said, to make the capitalist press behave...