Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dutch established some safeguards against big business exploitation of the natives. Result: Indonesian leaders, some of whom are rich, now feel that they can manage their fabulously rich archipelago (37% of the world's rubber, 3% of its oil, 91% of its quinine), preferably through public ownership of key industries...
...Tito-sponsored Yugoslav Constitution, adopted last January, solemnly proclaimed: "Private property and private initiative in the economy are guaranteed." Last week, under Tito's personal chairmanship, a bill nationalizing the entire Yugoslav economy, including "all movable and immovable property as well as all rights of ownership which belong to enterprise," was presented to the Yugoslav National Assembly. It passed unanimously...
...they could also thank round-faced little Fred Lazarus, 62, ablest of Ohio's famed Lazarus brothers, Simon, Robert and Jeffrey. When Fred Lazarus stepped into Federated's presidency in 1945, the organization was little more than a device by which its five members,*through cross-ownership of each other's stock, protected themselves against regional slumps...
...Foxcrofts gave way to the Fultons, who gave the house its longest span of single ownership, from 1839 to 1902. The Fultons were progress-minded people who changed the interior of the house completely. More than progressive, the Fultons were practical, and in the later years of the century, Hicks House was opened as a boarding house. The authorities of the New England Historical Society state that rumors had it that the place "was used as a fraternity house." Students who study Economics in 1946 may verify this by counting the pegs in the ceiling of the Economics room, pegs...
...King's speech, written by his Socialist Ministers, there was not much news. Electricity and inland transport would be nationalized, but the gas industry got a reprieve, and private ownership of steel mills might even draw a suspended sentence from Britain's Socialist masters...