Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Exchange to hire the Brookings Institution to find out who does own the 5 billion shares of stock in the 2,300 companies listed on the nation's 20 exchanges and in the 2,700 companies with unlisted stocks. Last week, in a 140-page study (Share Ownership in the United States), Brookings reported...
Although there was gossip that Kirkpatrick felt the same as Bierly, both Kirkpatrick and John Keenan, the only remaining founder, denied it. Added Keenan: "[The] widespread rumor and gossip recently to the effect that a change in the ownership and policies ... is being contemplated . . . [is] entirely unfounded...
Last week Comptroller General Lindsay Warren demanded that the U.S. Lines should pay another $10 million. The line refused. The argument would not delay the maiden voyage, but there was a chance that the ship would sail under lease instead of under the U.S. Lines' ownership...
Sour Grapes. The day of the court's decision, the Times-Star ran a sour-grapes editorial. Said the paper: "The Times-Star did not anticipate any such controversy .. . The cost of production has gone steadily up, and newspaper earnings have gone considerably down. Ownership of the Enquirer lost a great deal of its attractiveness for us." But Scripps-Howard's Cincinnati Post, the city's third daily, doffed its hat to Ratliff's committee. Said the Post: "What many of us had thought could not happen, did happen. This show of enterprise . . . by a band...
...1920s with their red caps and red scarves, the Schumacher Socialists of today have lost their enthusiasm for all-out nationalization of "all means of production, distribution and exchange" and advocate a more tepid Socialism like the Swedes and the British Laborites. They want some nationalization, some private ownership. They advocate something called Mitbestimmung (co-determination), which means giving workers the right to share with management in the operation of industry...