Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles hoodlum named Joseph and Mary Rivas, who graduated from "switch knives, snap guns . . . and, for the very poor, socks loaded with sand" to ownership of the Lee Chong Grocery, and now keeps busy trying to figure out a way to cheat at chess...
...newhouse loan insurance to loans for purchase of old houses. The Senate Banking and Currency Committee turned him down. Eisenhower asked Congress to free Government interest rates on housing. Again, the committee turned him down. Dumped also were Eisenhower's trial plan to substitute low-cost home-ownership (with 40-year mortgages fully insured) for subsidized public housing, and his plan to lift the ceiling on FHA home-repair loans from $2,500 to $3,000. Even the parts of the Eisenhower program that have been generally approved in committee- e.g., a temporary continuation of public housing, FHA guarantees...
Last June they set up, under joint ownership, the Matholin Corp. to produce Hydrazine, the "wonder" chemical used for rocket fuel, explosives, plastics, insecticides, etc. (TIME, July 20). The partnership worked so well that John Olin and Tommy Nichols decided to take another big step...
...Congress ordered the town sold, no ifs, ands or buts. As the Greenbelt Veteran Housing Corporation and its legal adviser Abraham Chasanow fought for private ownership, tempers flared and rumors burgeoned. From house to row house, the word darted that the veterans' group was led by "Communist Jews and longhairs." Someone scratched at the sign over the Jewish Community Center to make it read "Jewish Communist Center...
...business executive, Hackney says, "I took his hand and led him toward the analyst in the vestry room. 'The raccoon,' I continued, 'always washes his food before eating. Why not 'raccoon' your mind?... Since then that young man has risen from envelope-sealer for Eastern Steel to the ownership of one of the largest clip joints in Las Vegas! And why? Because he learned to 'raccoon' his mind...