Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation has under God authority to invade family freedom, abrogate private ownership, or impede, to the detriment of the common good, economic enterprise, cooperative undertakings for mutual welfare and organized works of charity...
Amorous, ambitious Devon Elliott has rocketed from a shelf of cosmetic stink pots in a cheap Greenwich Village rented room to the ownership of Devonshire House, a cosmetic corporation whose function is thinking up things that women didn't know they desperately needed. Devonshire House has branches in 13 cities. Devon has her claws in several men. Man No. 1 is Tim Wainwright, Devon's husband, Devonshire House's chief concocter of the high-priced goos that pay for the Wainwrights' East River house. Tim is an Iowa farm boy not only in build...
...result is obvious: a Europe brought to ruin, in which normal concepts of money, property and ownership have been so thoroughly overthrown that they may never be restored to the prewar basis...
Next came a 16-point resolution, setting a frame for a new economic design and defining the types of industry which after the war shall remain in private hands. State and private ownership shall go hand in hand, the Kuomintang decided, with monopoly-type industries and utilities falling to the State, while "industry which may be entrusted to individuals or which will be less suitable for the State to operate shall be privately operated...
...Everywhere we encounter a reluctance to take risks. Everywhere we find a strong belief in private ownership, and everywhere we see a scarcity of persons willing to become owners when risk is apparent...