Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italian workmen in the Luxembourg town of Esch, was steel that belonged to Europe-solid and symbolic evidence that the Schuman Plan dream is at last reality. Six nations, producing 20% of the world's steel, would henceforth pool their outputs, eliminate tariffs, surrender control (but not ownership) of their basic industries to a supranational High Authority, headed by a dapper Frenchman who hopes to forge not merely an industrial colossus, but a new U.S. of Europe. "What we are doing with our own hands here at home in Europe is the greatest revolution of our history," said Jean...
Under these criteria, Ohio looks hardly more appealing. Although probably not partial to Civil Rights legislation, the extra-territorial ownership problem is large in Ohio. Duped investors and business interests have poured capital into the Territory since 1803. As for radical Labor Unions, the United Electrical Workers have a strong bloc in the industrial areas...
...faith in the power of good typography makes many a prose-conscious newsman wince. Says Typographer Farrar: "A poor paper with a good package has a better chance than a good paper with a bad package . . . A good-looking paper inspires better writing. It inspires pride of ownership. It inspires the circulation and ad people to go out and sell...
...steel. Winston Churchill's Tory government came to power pledged to denationalize the industry. Last week, with surprisingly little fuss considering all the hours of campaign oratory once devoted to the subject, the House of Commons voted 304 to 271 to return the steel companies to private ownership. The significance of the step was more in the attitude than the act. The Tories hope to restore what Winston Churchill's Supply Minister (and son-in-law) Duncan Sandys calls "the invaluable stimulus and driving force of private enterprise...
...biggest stockholders, who persuaded the company to turn down the P.U.D.s, distribute Washington Water Power stock to the parent company's shareholders. Thus, the utility was put on its own (TIME, March 31, 1952). Then Private Enterpriser Robinson set out to save Puget Sound from public ownership...