Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stalin & Co. came to pay dirt. The means of production under capitalism involves a contradiction between "productive forces" (the tools and the workers) and "productive relations" (the relations between capitalists and laborers). New tools or equipment make the old capitalist-labor relations obsolete. The new productive forces require "social ownership" (Communism) for their full expansion. Otherwise, there will be depressions, in which shoe-factory workers, as an example, will be out of work at the same time that they (and others) need shoes...
...confused with London's daily Times, a completely separate paper, under different ownership and management...
...Power. In the grimy Telegram offices on Melinda Street, there was no joy as the staff turned out an early afternoon edition headed McCULLAGH BUYS TELY (changed in a later edition to TELY REMAINS INDEPENDENT). Although McCullagh said that there would be no immediate wholesale firings, his ownership of both the Globe & Mail and the Telegram would cut the field for any ex-staffers to one paper, the Star...
...Globe & Mail, McCullagh supported the Liberal Party, though he often needled the government. The final break came in World War II over reinforcements for Canadian troops abroad. Ever since, McCullagh has been plugging the Progressive Conservative line on his editorial page, has become a power in Tory circles. Ownership of the staunchly Tory Telegram makes him still more important in the party. Said one worried Tory: "It's going to be awfully tough on anyone who breaks with George McCullagh...
Able Newspaperman McCullagh decided to get tough first with Toronto's Liberal Star (circ. 369,276), longtime rival of the Telegram, and Canada's biggest newspaper. The Star charged that the Telegram had lost its independence and that McCullagh was a front man "for outside influence and ownership." McCullagh snapped that the Telegram deal was his own. "That fellow Hindmarsh [Harry Comfort Hindmarsh, Star president]," he roared, ". . . is so ugly that if he ever bit himself he'd get hydrophobia...