Word: ownership
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Buraimi Oasis. A small but prickly thorn, the ownership of this sun-scorched cluster of eight scrubby villages (with oil riches below), has resulted in border scraps between Saudi Arabia and two British-protected sheikdoms. The British charge bitterly that the Saudis offered an $84 million bribe to one of the Buraimi chieftains. The British want the U.S. to restrain the Saudis, who have got rich quick through a yearly income of $250 million in royalties from the U.S. oil company Aramco. The State Department says that the U.S. cannot tell Saudi Arabia what...
...year. It is considerably lower than that of the average white farm family. This is due, in part, to the fact that Negroes are more concentrated at the bottom of the 'agricultural ladder' than are whites... The income of the average Negro family at any given level of ownership or tenancy is always much lower than the income of the corresponding average white family." (Rose, op. cit. See also G. Myrdal, An American Dilemma-1950; R. Sterner, The Negro's Share...
...year. It is considerably lower than that of the average white farm family. This is due, in part, to the fact that Negroes are more concentrated at the bottom of the 'agricultural ladder' than are whites... The income of the average Negro family at any given level of ownership or tenancy is always much lower than the income of the corresponding average white family." (Rose, op. cit. See also G. Myrdal, An American Dilemma-1950; R. Sterner, The Negro's Share...
...Though ownership of Mirror stock is widely scattered, King holds control through his own bloc, probably the second largest, plus the proxy of the paper's largest single shareholder, Multimillionaire Shipowner Sir John Reeves Ellerman...
...another move toward closer ties between movies and TV, the National Broadcasting Co. bought 50% ownership of Joseph L. (The Barefoot Contessa) Mankiewicz' independent Figaro Holding Co. NBC will finance future Figaro productions...