Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After putting that question to "a typical cross section of voters across the country," the Gallup poll announced this week that pro-nationalization sentiment in the U.S. is weaker today than at any time since the poll began making surveys on the subject back in 1936. Percentages favoring Government ownership...
With five years of public ownership behind them, Britain's 5,000,000 trade unionists are openly skeptical of Whitehall's ability to dig more coal, grow more food, build more houses than private business can. "It's perfectly easy to draw up lists of industries to be nationalized," said wealthy George Strauss, who, as Attlee's Minister of Supply, nationalized British Steel. "But that's not the Socialist approach-it's the escapist approach...
...control for about $20 million in 1944, he got something nobody else wanted. Founded in 1872 by Confederate Brigadier General William J. Palmer, the company prospered in steel and coal as the railroads snaked westward, was bought by the Rockefellers at the turn of the century. But under absentee ownership, C.F. & I. began to falter. Its mines and mills ran down, its labor relations deteriorated. The company became notorious for the famed Ludlow Massacre of 1914, in which 33 men, women and children were shot down by the state militia, most of them C.F. & I.-employed guards. Time and again...
...crated aircraft was grounded en route -reportedly at Okinawa-and the U.N. command announced that it was canceling its offer of $50,000 reward for additional MIGs. Furthermore, it offered to return this one to its "rightful owner" if the owner would step forward and present proof of ownership. The plane had already revealed enough secrets to compensate for the $100,000 it cost, but the Air Force rushed a team of test pilots and engineers to examine it and test its performance in the air. Though the Air Force had studied several MIGs part by part, this...
...actually means any type of cleanser, including soap, in popular usage it now means one based on chemicals instead of natural fats or oils. -To promote its Dial' soap, Armour & Co. last week announced a contest with a producing oil well as first prize. -But not out of ownership. Cincinnati Philanthropist Cecil H. Gamble, 69, grandson of Founder James, is currently a P. & G. director and one of the biggest single stockholders. No Procters are connected with P. & G. today...