Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...status of the Average Man so sharply as Lower than Angels. Its hero is a character Sinclair Lewis might have drawn: Marvin Lang, son of a Staten Island delicatessen merchant. The story records his progress to a butcher shop, to the Army in World War I, to ownership of a prosperous market...
Last week, as usual, Dealer Stieglitz was regarding prospective buyers with a critical eye. For sometimes, ownership of an O'Keeffe requires considerably more than a checkbook: the money must be accompanied by certain spiritual, emotional and intellectual qualifications satisfactory to Dealer Stieglitz...
...this contention is a beautiful, sparsely populated 222,000-acre valley, where frontier rustlers once hid out. For 50 years conservationists have been fighting to make it a park. But many a Congressman and rancher bristled. Their argument: the Federal Government already owns too much western land; Federal ownership cuts down State land taxes. In his veto the President rejoined: Wyoming is still permitted to tax private lands in the valley, and private grazing rights remain inviolate...
...Myers got it for them, chiefly from the investment bankers who had helped finance his other private-into-public-ownership deals in Nebraska. As security, the bankers received $15.6 million of short-term notes of the Loup River Public Power District of Nebraska, a part of the "little TVA." Loup River in turn got what it wanted, a contract to sell power to Nebraska Power. Myers did not forget himself. His fee: $500,000, of which he will clear some...
...white-thatched, vigorous, 65-year-old Economist Sir William Beveridge, author of Britain's "cradle-to-grave" social-security plan. The white paper's policy, he wrote, "is not practical and it is not radical-does not go to the root of the matter. . . . Whether private ownership of means of production to be operated by others is a good economic device or not, it must be judged as a device. It is not an essential liberty in Britain, because it is not and never has been enjoyed by more than a very small proportion of the British people...