Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Public ownership of electric utilities occurs in two forms. First, there are the federally-built projects such as Hoover Dam, the TVA, and dams in Washington and California. The electricity produced by these plants is either sold to private distributors or brought to the consumer through publicly-owned lines. Secondly, there are municipally-owned power plants, mostly financed by the Rural Electrification Administration. Together, these methods produce about 20 percent of the nation's power...
American pilots working for the airlines stumbled into the mazes of the coup. CNAC's American Vice President E. M. Allison announced that eight American pilots had gone to work for the Communists, that 37 others would remain "loyal" to the airline, regardless of ownership. Pan American Airways Corp., which owns 20% of CNAC's stock (the Nationalist government owns the other 80%), declared itself neutral, asserted that it had no voice in CNAC's policy or politics...
Though earnings of the family-owned Ford Motor Co. have always been and still are a mystery, some facts about its dividends and ownership came out last week. In a report to Detroit's Probate Court, Clara Ford, widow of Henry the First, reported that the company paid out two dividends amounting to $4.50 a share for the year ending last July...
...Free'movement on Austrian waterways, ownership of all Austrian shipping taken over by the Germans, and control of Austrian docking facilities. (As far as shipping goes, the Russians have already seized almost everything worthwhile...
...triumph of commerce-with a touch of culture. Dallas' Cokesbury Book Store staked out a claim as the biggest in the U.S. It made no difference to Cokesbury that Manhattan's Brentano's and Macy's disputed the claim. With hymn and prayer befitting its ownership by the Methodist Church,* and with typical Texasity, the block-long, five-story Cokesbury opened a three-story addition and plugged away at surpassing its sales of $1,635,000, profits of $140,000 during its last fiscal year...