Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...IRON to STEEL. In May, the House approved the Government's motion to transfer "appropriate sections" to public ownership. After further study, a bill will be offered, probably recommending nationalization of iron ore, coke ovens unaffected by the coal bill, pig iron and most steel ingot manufacture, heavy rolling mills and some finishing plants. Just where the line can or will be drawn is a question. Meantime, the Government will appoint a Steel Control Board to oversee the industry and insure raw materials supply, and may carry out modernization schemes taken from the industry's own plan...
...taken to business the way most women take to marriage. That had attracted her first husband, Charles Netcher. A silent, fantastically hard-working man, he had lashed himself from a $1.50-3-week job to ownership of the Boston Store by working 18 hours a day, sleeping on store-counters at night so as to save time...
Harry Lacey, Boston interior decorator who acquired the painting in payment for work which he did at the Boston Art Club, added it to his living-room decorations without knowledge of its value. He may also have a claim to its ownership...
Since broadcasters lease but do not own radio channels, Durr insists that they should submit to a periodic review of programming before their three-year licenses are renewed. He also holds that the widest ownership of stations will guarantee the widest diversity of broadcasts. Last week, largely because of his stumping, FCC decided to hold 90 FM channels open for a year, to give returning servicemen a chance to bid for them...
...money (even though the province's credit is good) may become a prime obstacle to further expansion. Private companies, watching the spread of socialized industry, are already talking of moving out of the province. Intensifying the talk: CCF's plan to impose a tax on absentee ownership...