Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favor government ownership of the basic industries such as coal and iron mines, electric power, railroads, telephones...
...York Sun; in Manhattan. One of eleven children of a Scotch economist and unsuccessful railroad promoter, Dewart rose to the general managership of the late Frank Munsey's publishing enterprises at the age of 28. When Munsey died, Dewart came into control of the Sun, mutualized its ownership. He originated "Don't sell America short...
...Atlantic was wan and weak when Editor Weeks took over. Later other young blood (notably urbane Richard Ely Danielson, with new ownership money) was infused. The oldtimer soon sat up to a new diet: less literature for literature's sake, more topical, issue-grappling articles. This week Editor Weeks and Publisher Donald B. Snyder could report a strong Atlantic pulse: 1943 advertising up 38% from 1939, December 1943's circulation of 108,037 (not including newsstand sales, which bring it to Snyder's estimate of 125,000) up 78% from 1939's average. The Atlantic...
...longest faces in Chungking today are worn by those who fear that inflation may yet have a profound effect on the silent peasant millions. For 30 years after Sun Yat-sen's 1911 Revolution the slow trend was toward peasant ownership of the parcels tilled; today a new and powerful land-owning class is in the making...
...Cons. No one could quarrel with the Treasury's basic aim. But plenty of critics had knives stropped for the specific Treasury formula. The Wall Street Journal, seeing bureaucracy under the bed, spoke darkly of "socialization of foreign investment and . . . nationalization of property ownership." And a good many who ground their dusty way through the 17-page Treasury memorandum wondered how the World Bank could do so much more than private capital while insisting upon meticulously conservative safeguards for its money. The provisions for suspending defaulting members made it sound as if in due course the wealthy na tions...