Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explorer's diary. It was so complicated that Court Reporter G. L. Dahl filled 327 notebooks with almost 5,000,000 words of testimony, accumulated so many exhibits that he finally took to hauling them to the courtroom by wheelbarrow (see cut). At stake was the ownership of 495 acres of Montgomery County oil land estimated to be worth...
...trust, and it has prospered with the help of Farben skills and patents. Two years ago General Aniline-until then known as American I. G. Chemical Corp. -reorganized, and has since denied or minimized any Nazi affiliations. But it cannot seem to convince the U.S. Government that its ownership is in trustworthy hands...
...does in the cities, the National Catholic Rural Life Conference does for country Catholics. "The cure for Communism is to give a man a cow," says its executive secretary, Monsignor Luigi Ligutti. He told the Kansas City conferees about his group's efforts to increase people's ownership of productive property through homestead projects, farmers' cooperatives and small, decentralized industries...
Theory behind the Camden Plan is that the 48% of all U.S. non-farm families which pay $20-$40 a month housing costs can ill afford to risk home-ownership because 1) they have trouble saving enough money for the conventional down payment; 2) they want or have to move two to seven times in the period ordinarily required to pay off a house. But when renting they have to pay somebody else for the privilege of flexibility and protection from loss, thus do not get as good housing as they should...
Colonel Westbrook believes that his plan combines the advantages of both ownership and rental. Moreover, it will give residents substantial savings in maintenance costs (through centralized staff and purchases), will protect them against neighborhood deterioration by insuring that no building will fall into disrepair or be replaced by a hot-dog stand. Still more hopeful is the fact that the Camden Plan is not subsidy housing. Although a small subsidy was provided at Audubon Village to make up for construction delays caused by bad weather and a strike, the plan's basic principle is for projects...