Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Modern industry, relatively unknown in this part of prewar China, has been successfully introduced under government leadership and encouragement. State ownership and operation of the heavy industries, private capitalism with government regulation for the light industries, and cooperation for small-scale, decentralized, handicraft industries, and agriculture-all of which develop rapidly in the course of war-promise to give now forms of economic organization that may be further developed in a post-war China...
Such conditions, and the growing shortage, aggravated the long-standing demands of the Labor Party and other leftist groups for the nationalization* of coal. The Mineworkers' Federation urged that, at the very least, the industry be directed by a national control board (including Government, ownership and labor), empowered, among other things, to fix minimum wages. There was also agitation for coal rationing...
...again. Even on the normally turbulent Clyde-side, where strikes and upheavals resulted in the granting of then-revolutionary trade-union rights in the midst of World War I, there is now political quiet. The 100%-profits tax, making employers relatively generous with wages, leaves firebrands little besides absentee ownership and shipyard discipline to protest about. For their part, shipyard owners complain about "absenteeism"-workers occasionally take a day off just for the hell...
Reasons for World War II's housing delays are the same as in World War I: wrangles over Government v. private building, permanent houses v. temporary, renting v. home ownership. Sixteen different Government housing agencies have thoroughly messed up the job. A new, effectively remodeled National Housing Agency has now been created to coordinate all housing efforts. To avoid leaving war plant workers high & dry after the war, most Government houses (cost about $3,500) will be rented to their occupants...
Davis, feeling that the sale of the bagpipes "will mean another drink in Cairo" when he travels to Africa this June to serve as an ambulance driver," ended a successful period of ownership that started when he ordered them for the Yale game rally only to receive them an hour too late to participate...