Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these grass-roots owners are aware of their ownership. Last year, an aged woman walked into Merrill Lynch's Pittsburgh office with a package of yellowed stock certificates she had found in an old bureau drawer. She thought they were worthless, but had borrowed 30? carfare to go to the office to make sure. The stock was worth...
There was another reason for the stock rise. For the first time in its history, U.S. Steel decided to split its stock-3 shares for 1-if the stockholders approve next May. By thus lowering the price of its stock, Big Steel hoped to widen the ownership, and win more friends who might influence Congress if there is any more talk of putting the Government into the steel business. Next day, in a 55,100-share turnover-greatest since Nov. 7, 1940-U.S. Steel closed at 77½, up 4⅝ points, though the rest of the market sagged...
...been gathering data for the Plymouth restorers, who have already erected one sample Pilgrim home. He remarked that Plymouth was a "rarity among historical sites in that it possesses its architectural birth certificate in the form of trustworthy documents and archeological research to prove the number, type, location, and ownership of the original dwellings...
...signatories had sat in a smoke-filled room in London's Foreign Office, hammering out the agreement clause by clause and word by word. The conference started under an ominous cloud, caused by a decision of the U.S. and British military governors in Germany that ownership of the Ruhr industries should ultimately be handed back to the Germans (TIME, Nov. 29). The decision, embodied in "Law 75," drew violent protests from the apprehensive French. (The question of ownership was not on the agenda at the London conference, and so Law 75 still stands. The French clearly reserved their right...
...successful. By September 1, 1948, almost a million and a half farm plots, belonging to the Japanese and large land-holders, had been redistributed among more than 550,000 former tenants on 15 year mortgages. Unlike the communist program in the North, the peasants were given titles of ownership immediately. The success of these reforms proved a strong bulwark against communism in rural areas and clearly demonstrated that honest and intelligent administration is possible in Korea. Now that the farm administration has been placed in the hands of Syngman Rhee's U.S.-approved government, however, corruption and waste threaten...