Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idealistic mutual-ownership project dreamed up by Federal Works Agency's Colonel Lawrence Westbrook (TIME, June 2, 1941), Winfield Park's history was so deplorable that Colonel Westbrook could count himself lucky that he is now on active duty, reportedly in Australia. Less lucky was red-faced Contractor Clifford F. MacEvoy, who squirmingly admitted last week that subsidiaries of his MacEvoy Construction Co. had furnished bonding service, excavating equipment, trucks, etc. to the project at third-party profits. He also admitted that his $40-a-week secretary was put on the project (i.e., U.S. Government) payroll...
...Christian aim," said Canterbury, "leads to emphasis upon a life ordered in the public interest, and this involves in our day definite attack upon a number of so-called vested interests." Then, echoing his Albert Hall speech of two months ago, he denounced private ownership of land and private control of credit. Said...
...question of ownership is becoming steadily less important compared with that of direction and management. . . . Those who direct and manage should regard themselves as servants of the public and partners of all others, rather than as agents for the owners. . . . We will insist that children henceforth be born in houses that are fit homes, receive education to the age of 18, and that everybody have enough of the right foods...
When U.S. voters turned conservative on Election Day they also turned their backs on the very thing they once voted for with monotonous regularity-big State and municipal appropriations for public works and ownership. Of some $100,000,000 to propositions on last week's ballots, some two-thirds were defeated...
...peninsula that breaks into the bits and pieces of the Aleutians. To manage his new colony Shelekhov chose middle-aged Merchant Aleksandr Andrevich Baranov. Baranov was that rarest of Russians, a self-made man. He began as a small trader, worked his way to ownership of a Siberian glass factory. Baranov is the hero of Author Chevigny's impressive history of young Alaska...