Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leavitt and Peirce, last remnant of the "old Harvard," changed ownership this week for the third time in 72 years, but the traditions of the "gentleman's smoke shop" will continue almost unaltered...
TIDELANDS DRILLING will be resumed after four-month stalemate between State of Louisiana and U.S. Government. Though battle over ownership of area more than three miles offshore must finally be settled by U.S. Supreme Court, Louisiana and Government have signed interim operating agreement so that oilmen can keep on drilling and exploring until court rules, probably some time next summer...
Labor's "radical temper" was shown principally in two policy directives: 1) a housing policy which commits the party to municipal ownership of 6,000,000 rent-controlled houses, and 2) a program for greater equality which commits it to a capital-gains tax and an attempt at cutting or raising all incomes in Britain to one level. But the Labor Party has not officially revived the issue of nationalizing more industries, which Bevan favors, nor did it decide that public, i.e., private, schools should be abolished, a step long advocated by Bevan. The conference also demanded abolition...
...firmest support possible would be a proposal from the United States to put all similar international waterways under a special type of international control. Outright ownership and operation would remain with the nation involved--Egypt in the case of Suez, the United States in Panama, Germany in the Kiel Canal--but an independent body, similar to this country's Interstate Commerce Commission, would be chartered under the United Nations to fix maximum rates and minimum standards of operation. This body would act also as a board of arbitration for any complaints--with the General Assembly as the final appeal group...
...drama of his mission to Moscow would silence his critics. In a letter to Russian Premier Bulganin, Hatoyama proposed a peace with Russia on "the Adenauer formula," i.e., resume diplomatic relations on an interim basis, leaving the terms of a formal peace treaty (and hence the question of ownership of Etorofu and Kunashiri) for future settlement...