Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carrying out a social revolution through a form of legal evolution. This was no luxury-liner decision: it promised a generation of litigation, a continual nagging at the conscience and the legal ingenuity of the land until the change was completed. In Detroit, having rejected an offer of stock ownership in the Ford Motor Co., the 140,000 hourly rated Ford employees won a concession to the principle of the guaranteed annual wage. Strike or no strike, the hard give-and-take of bargaining had lifted the autoworkers toward a new and more secure place...
...keep in suing trim, Gina last year got entangled in suits involving 1) ownership of a house, 2) a Turin vermouth firm (for using her picture to advertise its wine), 3) a radiologist (who charged that Gina had welched on a 15,000 lire X-ray bill...
...their six-year watch over the hot pans of nationalization, the Laborites are no longer such strident advocates of Marxist Socialism. The once deep-blue Tories, turned pastel by the demands of a new, more progressive generation of Conservatives, have dismantled only a part of the Welfare State (public ownership of the steel and road transport). They have committed themselves to many of the economic and social concepts it was built upon. In foreign policy the two parties differ in tone, and sometimes in detail, but stand mutually for negotiation-through-strength in Europe and go-slow in Asia...
...year's plan to get the Government out of the business of running two "atom cities"-Oak Ridge, Tenn. and Richland, Wash. At the request of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Democratic heads of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy last week introduced bills to end Government ownership and operation of Oak Ridge and Richland. The responsibility for schools, streets, etc. would be handed over to local residents, eventually saving the Federal Government upwards of $1,500,000 yearly...
...World Socialist Party, which has been debating against University teams for 14 years, are seeking "the introduction of world socialism based on common ownership and democratic control...