Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also pay interest on the loans and a fee (usually ¼% to 2%, although some go as high as 6%) to the leasing company. Says National Equipment President R. L. Boothman: "We engineer the lease, we own the property, and we depreciate the property. Leasing is not cheaper than ownership-but it can be far more profitable...
Such treasured paintings have been handed down from generation to generation, each collector adding his own red seal of ownership and often adding a poem of comment in his own hand. For the Chinese art lover, the pleasure of viewing a painting includes enjoying the calligraphy of the written words as an art in itself, deciphering the seals, analyzing the brushwork and drawing. But, essentially, each work reflects one great central theme. For well over a thousand years Chinese painters have been primarily concerned not with the works of man but with nature; their most triumphant subject has been landscape...
...said that there is "no immediate crisis" for a change in the relation, pointing out that "no organization is beating at our door to demand joint ownership...
...detailed poll of refugee political convictions. Of the workers polled (all of whom had been employed in Communist state-run industries), 22% were still outspoken in support of Communist policy; 25% criticized some aspects of the Communist Party line and defended others; 17% were in favor of state ownership of all means of production; 25% supported "moderate" nationalization. And only 8% were for free enterprise pure and simple...
...plant at Mosul, Iraq's second city, which under the program was also receiving a sugar factory, a bridge, a housing project and a new vocational-training school. On a 148,000-acre tract 20 miles from the site of Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon, the young King presented ownership deeds for 40-acre plots of land to 20 landless fellahin. The land transfer was particularly symbolic to Iraqis: it marked the first time the area has been irrigated since Mongol hordes wrecked their elaborate irrigation systems 700 years ago. Gaunt, copper-skinned E'Elawi Aboud...