Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...devised, TVA has only ten very minor employes in Washington. The rest of the 18,000, including TV Administrator David Lilienthal, live and work in communities they serve. Norris feared that all this would be undone by Harold Ickes; that the now-broken system of absentee (Wall Street) ownership of the utilities would be converted into absentee (Federal) management...
...scientist, and the generally powerful plot of this movie goes back to his painstaking delineation of character. But when scenario-writers-in the inconceivably heroic turnabout of the mine-owner, Barras, and again in a superfluous and mystical epilogue-attempt to expand a stirring argument for public ownership into a vague essay on the goodness of man, they over step logical bounds...
...order which required NBC to divest itself of its Blue network was indefinitely suspended. The Commission felt that, since the undesirability of two networks under one ownership was generally conceded (e.g., by its own dissenting minority), the Blue would be sold sooner or later, and it did not want a forced sale on its conscience...
...footnote. It operates 95.82 miles of single track from Morehead City (pop. 3,483) on the coast to Goldsboro (pop. 14,958). Tarheels call it the "Mullet Line," because it used to haul so many fish. Yet last week no U.S. railroad man, seeking to justify private v. State ownership, could have hoped for a neater case than the Atlantic & North Carolina...
...Sept. 12 Carmody had allocated funds for 91,873 units in projects as follows: Public Buildings Administration, 148 projects; U.S. Housing Authority, 105; FWA Division of Defense Housing, 61; FWA Mutual Ownership Division, 10; Farm Security Administration, 6; Alley Dwelling Authority,* 2; Navy, 8; War Department...