Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With this triumph, the Crimson virtually clinched first-year possession of the Arvanites Sabre Trophy, a new award to be given annually to the best Boston area sabre team. The trophy will be offered for five years, and the team winning it three of those years will gain permanent ownership...
...Problem: Costs. It was the sixth time that the News, which began life in 1876 as a four-page daily, has changed ownership. Last week's seller was John Shively Knight. 64. who added the News to his chain* in 1944, paying $2,000,000 in cash and assuming an outstanding debt of $6,600,000. Last week's buyer. Field, has been pining after the News since the wealthy Trib picked up Chicago's other evening paper, Hearst's money-losing American...
When Wladyslaw Gomulka was swept into power in the 1956 Warsaw upheaval, one of his first concessions was to abolish forced collectivization of agriculture and let peasants go back to farming their own land in their old individual way. So swift was the rush to private ownership that within weeks collective farms had all but disappeared from the Polish countryside...
Apparently facts concerning the subsequent transition of ownership are obscure. The house seems to have passed immediately into the hands of the English Department...
...idea in mathematical terms, saying that the people represent 1 and the government 0. Separately, they could not achieve much, but put together they equal 10: India's achievement would be tenfold. Said Nehru: "The land problem is the main problem before us. Vinobaji says that private ownership of land must go. He is right. The land should belong to the community. But even that is not enough. The community must have the necessary organization to develop its economy." He exhorted the peasants to work harder, because "great nations like America and Russia" have progressed through the toil...