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Word: ownership (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...succeeded in rising above the commercial horizon, decided to grab the best talent his money could buy-preferably by taking it away from his rival, Colonel McCormick. Field invited Caniff to his apartment at 740 Park Avenue, blandly asked him: "What do you want?" Caniff hardly needed to answer: ownership of copyright. "I'm out to emancipate you," smiled Field. Then he added comfortably: "I imagine you're a well-paid slave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Escape Artist | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

Britain prepared to cinch its social revolution a little tighter. New Year's Day would be Vesting Day, so-called because on that day title to coal mines and the cable & wireless industry would be taken from private ownership and vested in the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Vesting Day | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Stuff & Nonsense. David concluded that Mary had "an impulsive urge" to run the company, was trying to harass him into selling back his stock. Nonsense, cried Mary. In the first place, David's permanent ownership in the stock was contingent on his delivering all ten of the pictures he had contracted for; if he delivered a minimum of five, he could resell his stock to U.A. at an "equitable" price; if he delivered less than five, as was now the case, he had no rights in the stock at all. Despite David's claims to have bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mary & Charlie v. David | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...settle the stock-ownership dispute, a long legal fight was in prospect. Meanwhile, Mary and Charlie were busy lining up more pictures for U.A. with independent producers. Mary, in a new company formed with Lester Cowan (G.I. Joe), planned to produce four pictures of her own next year. She'd show that David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mary & Charlie v. David | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...reduced from $5,800,000 to $3,700,000. Technically, Schine still lacks full control of the Ambassador. Said one California financier: "All Schine bought is the first place in line." But it was really more than that. Schine can now do one of three things: 1) acquire full ownership by paying bondholders off outright; 2) sit tight and wait for profits to wipe out the bonds; 3) sell certificates of his holdings to a higher bidder. Few people who know Schine expect him to sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Mr. Schine Goes West | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

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