Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard, but the Kuesters pulled through, says Gus, "by chickens, hogs and going without." They pulled through also thanks to the patient devotion of Elda Kuester. Over the years hogs paid the mortgage (today the land is worth $225 an acre), and the Kuesters received the final patent of ownership: the neighbors began to call the old Weaver place the Kuester farm. There were born Dale and a pretty daughter, Shirley, now 19, who sometimes acts as her father's official secretary, now lives and works in Atlantic, twelve miles away, as an operator for the telephone company...
Cheng explained that Premier T. V. Soong, during his negotiations with Generalissimo Joseph Stalin over the Sino-Soviet Treaty of last August, had asked that the Fushun Combine be excluded from joint ownership provisions; Stalin had agreed. What did Cheng intend to do about the Russians living in the Combine's Yamato Hotel and working in its main offices? "I'll just ignore them," said Cheng. "Fushun's Mayor Yung Ning Lou has instructed 22,000 Japanese workers not to take orders from the Russians, but only from me. In the future, the Russians...
...question of Fushun's ownership has not been really settled. As far as Cheng is concerned, the Combine is Chinese and will stay that way. The Russians, despite their withdrawal, may have other ideas...
...Labor's Minister of Supply, rose in the House of Commons. Confidently, he announced that the hour for Britain's third-largest heavy industry had struck. Said he: "The position of the steel industry and its importance in the national economy necessitate a large measure of public ownership. . . . For [the transition] period I propose to establish a control board. . . ." He gave no further details. It was Labor's vaguest policy statement to date. It was also Labor's greatest blunder...
...Matter of Timing. Superficially, nationalization of Britain's steel looked easy,, A few big firms employed most of the half million workers. But those firms had grown into huge vertical combines, in which it would be difficult to divorce ownership of vast iron-ore mines, limestone quarries, brickworks, diesel-engine works, nut-&-bolt plants. Just what parts of the steel industry did Wilmot propose to nationalize...