Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the seaway goes through, the U.S. and New York State governments must agree on sharing costs and ownership of power produced on the U.S. side...
...whole decade of inflation. Wages, warned Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson this week, can never go back to pre-Korea levels since the U.S. is "still an expanding economy." When costs and prices rise and dollars cheapen, savings can be protected only by converting them into ownership of "things"-including shares in the land, tools, bricks & mortar of U.S. industry. Moreover, arms spending, already at the rate of $2.5 billion a month, is really just getting under way, will rise to at least twice that before it tapers off. By the time it slackens, two or three years hence, huge...
...latter days) that a half century ago, he was regarded by some as a Socialist radical, and by many as a friend of the people. He muckraked the trusts, exposed Standard Oil for bribing Senators, campaigned for the eight-hour day (which Hearst properties ignored), woman suffrage, public ownership-and, of course, for circulation. In 1901 he was hanged in effigy as an inciter of McKinley's assassination, but a year later he was elected to a seat (rarely to be occupied) in Congress, having run in a "safe" Tammany district. He celebrated by marrying Millicent Willson, from...
...winners in stocks. Not to be outdone, General Mills took ads of its own, announcing that Merrill Lynch would advise the winners on what to buy, and General Mills will pick up the tab for the commission. Thus both firms hoped to spread the public's interest in ownership of U.S. industry...
Last week's sale marks the first change in ownership of the trademark since Textile Tycoons Charles and Abraham Erlanger bought it from its original owners in 1908. The Messrs. Bradley, Voorhees and Day were Manhattan manufacturers of ladies' and gentlemen's undergarments, were well known for their B.V.D. Spiral Bustle ("The only Bustle made that will not Break Down"). But the Erlangers made B.V.D. probably the best-known initial-trademark in the world when they introduced a revolutionary type of one-piece men's "athletic underwear." Later, they brought out two-piece models as well...