Word: ownership
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...Argentina never recognized Britain's rights to the Falklands, still insists they belong to Argentina and that the Falklands' slice of the Antarctic is also Argentine. As further evidence of ownership Argentina has maintained a meteorological observatory in the South Orkneys for 36 years, is the only nation to make good its claims by permanent occupation...
...brought the coast between the disputed Falkland quadrant and the Australian section under the Norwegian flag, to clinch a twelve-year mapping job backed by Norwegian Whale Tycoon Lars Christensen. Last month impatient Little Führer Vidkun Quisling made up for all lost time by announcing outright Norwegian ownership of the whole Antarctic...
...Mayor LaGuardia: "Mr. Willkie's utterances ... as far as I have quoted . . . [contain] a total of six different positions on foreign policy, nine contradictions . . . regarding the New Deal's policies and legislation, three contradictions on ... power, and one contradiction each regarding the control of monopolies, Government ownership, Argentine beef, and the Third Term...
...Christian Century appeared before Wendell Willkie named state socialism as the goal of New Deal economic policies. Said Wendell Willkie: he opposed state socialism not to defend the ownership of property, or the right of men to make money, but because "I know of no way to maintain freedom for the individual under such a system...
Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission published its report to null a 121-page study of "The Distribution of Ownership in the 200 Largest Non-Financial* Corporations." Based on 1937 figures, it whittled the Lundberg roster to 13 families, was considerably less personal than his census of Du Pont bathrooms, considerably more dogged in tracking down actual shareholdings (Lundberg had estimated fortunes by 1924 tax returns). It found...