Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...System. When they refused, he organized Beaumont Natural Gas Co., secured a franchise, caused United to cut its industrial rate from 18 to 10? per thousand cu. ft. McCarthy's offer to the city-gas for as low as 3½? per thousand-inspired a campaign for municipal ownership which is costing United thousands of dollars. Last week, after property owners had defeated a bond referendum for a municipal system using McCarthy's gas, United found itself under Federal inquiry for campaigning against the bond issue...
...length, legalistic posters placed in conspicuous places on University property, the sheriff and Aldrich Durant, business manager, stated that the Corporation claimed sole ownership of its property and would resist any claims that the public had obtained an "easement" on the property because of common use of Harvard's paths and driveways...
...that of Ohio, 16th in production of U. S. oil States.) Moreover, wars, repeated invasions since early Roman times, and political oppression have kept the people of southeastern Europe an impoverished peasantry. Yet in their possession are the greatest agricultural riches of the Old World. Today, the permanent ownership of those riches is vital to Europe's big three dictators...
While speculators were peeved at missing the boat, brokerage-house cashiers had a more serious worry: who really owned the dividends? Many a share of stock is held in a "street name," may be traded five or a hundred times before the ownership is transferred on the company's books. On a normal dividend day, stocks are traded "ex-dividend." But having had no notice of the Tommy dividend, buyers who had neglected to transfer their purchase with Thompson felt entitled to the payment. Last week cashiers were still scurrying about, making sure that all who received checks (those...
Aims? No. "It is their warfare, and not their philosophy and purpose, that is a menace to American democracy. Both seek to move and have their beings within the framework of capitalism, the private ownership of the means of production and distribution. . . . Both exist primarily to achieve and preserve collective-bargaining agreements. . . . Both stress round-table conferences and negotiations with employers as the most sensible and effective way of settling differences. . . . Both regard strikes as a last resort. . . . Both consider the wage-or salary -earner not as a class-conscious helot, but as a middle-class-conscious American having...