Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have as enviable a record as the Walls. But not all farmers rescued by FSA from economic serfdom during the depression '30s were as able, enterprising or as hardworking. Even so the FSA record is good. In seven years FSA has granted $212 million of long-term farm ownership loans. Under set amortization and interest payment schedules farmers would have paid back $32.7 million by the close of the 1944 fiscal year. Actually the farmers have remitted $43.4 million. FSA Rural Rehabilitation loans (operating capital for low-income farmers unable to obtain commercial credit) have totaled $843 million...
...Eliel Saarinen, Finnish founder of the Cranbrook (Mich.) Academy of Art. His city planning, said Moses, leads "straight into communal land ownership...
...trade, have been shipped to the U.S. for internment. German properties have been impounded for the duration. A special tax on enemy business eats up the profits. But most Guatemalans do not take Ubico's anti-German gestures too seriously, expect him to return the holdings to German ownership after...
...concludes, "the new birth of freedom, if any, must come from within. . . . What a free press needs is an owner who recognizes . . . his responsibility to represent the unrepresented . . . a man whose passion for the general welfare overcomes his desire to impose his own ideas upon the community. . . . Such ownership would develop new methods of management. It would exploit and thereby stimulate the professional instincts of the working staff. . . . Good management would operate the newspaper as the cooperative endeavor it must...
...most heartening success stories, got started because high-strung, pint-sized George Williams was no help to his stern English farmer-father. When he upset aj load of hay, his disgusted family apprenticed him to a small-town draper (drygoods merchant). A natural salesman, George Williams finally rose to ownership of his own draper's shop...