Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...helped themselves to a giant Dutch treat: all Jewish-owned stocks, bonds and other assets were expropriated and deposited with a Nazi-controlled company which took the name of Amsterdam's famed Lippmann, Rosenthal & Co. For a while, the Nazis' Lippmann, Rosenthal preserved the myth of Jewish ownership, credited the original security owners with accrued dividends. But the myth was short-lived. Lippmann, Rosenthal soon joined the Amsterdam Stock Exchange and began trading in the expropriated securities for its own account. By war's end, the company had dispersed almost all the loot...
...House of Commons last week Prime Minister Churchill sent the first of the long-awaited Tory proposals to undo six years of Socialist nationalization. In a brief but explosive White Paper, Churchill proposed to return to private ownership Britain's long-distance trucking business. "A dangerous avenue," muttered the London Times. "Vague and . . . thoroughly reactionary," objected the Manchester Guardian, and "very bad politics." Poorly planned, added the influential Economist...
Preliminary contracts have already been signed by the University for the three-story wood frame structure at 23 Everett Street, and the final transfer of ownership is to take place on June...
...California, where the delegation is still in Earl Warren's pocket, Eisenhower supporters struck one shrewd blow last week. H. J. (Jack) Porter, head of the Eisenhower-for-President Club of Texas, said he wrote Ike asking him whether he favors "state or federal ownership of the 'tidelands.'" Ike's reply (which pleased oil-rich Texas and California alike): "Once again, I agree with the principle that federal ownership in this case, as in others, is one that is calculated to bring about steady progress toward centralized ownership and control, a trend which I have bitterly...
...overall Canadian economy has grown faster. While Americans took the risk of financing such spectacular enterprises as the Alberta oil boom, Canadians were investing at an even faster clip in bonds, plant expansions, and other less dramatic developments of. the national economy. Result: the proportion of U.S. ownership is shrinking, not growing. The Canadian economy is freer of foreign control now than at any time in the country's history...