Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Webb, once a Phoenix carpenter, became a builder, grew with the desert boom, is now a multimillionaire contractor and developer, with interests ranging from oil to part ownership of the New York Yankees...
WHAT constitutes a good political issue-and which party is right in appraising the mood of the American people? This question has just been crystallized by the attitude taken by both parties toward the problem of government ownership of all electric power facilities. In Britain the public ownership fever, known as "nationalization," has about run its course. There are evidently leaders of the Democratic party who think they can strike pay dirt in the issue of public power. What needs to be re-examined is how far the Democratic party wants to go in committing itself to government ownership...
...Marxist language probably made little sense when translated into Zulu or Sotho. But to the small group of Negro intellectuals, a "Freedom Charter," introduced at the meeting, did have an appeal. With the literates among them leading, Africans, Indians and colored folk alike cheered charter phrases such as "ownership of the people" with the cry: "Mayibuye, Afrika" (Africa, come back). The only thing they seemed sure of was that the charter was antigovernment...
...unions, Castillo Armas re-established them, purged of their Communist leaders but with strikes out of the question for the present. He abolished the previous regime's famed land-reform decree, but he chased few peasants off their holdings, and is writing a new reform based on full ownership of land instead of government leases...
Cutter Laboratories, born in the backroom of the late Edward Cutter's Fresno, Calif, pharmacy in 1897, is the second oldest pharmaceutical house in the country under continuous ownership and management (the oldest: Parke, Davis & Co.), and has a solid professional reputation. It pioneered commercial production of serum albumin (for shock and kidney infections), gamma globulin (the first anti-polio serum), triple vaccine (against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus), the Semple Rabies Vaccine (an improvement on the old Pasteur formula), and is the exclusive U.S. marketer of fibrinogen (which helps to clot blood) and bubonic plague vaccine...