Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican" Taft, the first ranking politician to recognize that in North America ownership (not to be confused with management) is numerically superior to organized labor...
...public knows, no one has yet landed on any of the ice islands. Even their ownership is not settled. The U.S. maintains that land (even floating "land," presumably) belongs to the nation that discovers and occupies it first. But for polar regions the U.S.S.R. supports the "sector principle": that everything north of its territory is its property. At least one of the ice islands lies well beyond the pole in the Soviet-claimed "sector...
These signs have appeared on College grounds, periodically since 1824, when a Massachusetts State Law was passed saying open private land could be secured by public notice signifying ownership. Previously, to protect land that was used as a thoroughfare, the owner had to block passage for one day every year...
...candidate who made the best previous showing without the backing of either major party: William Randolph Hearst, who ran a close second to George B. McClellan in 1905, on a Municipal Ownership ticket...
...goodness sake, Manley," said Victor Milgrim in the sort of hearty executive bass, vibrant with command and ownership, in which big Hollywood producers are supposed to address their writers and prize great Danes. "I'm not asking you to go to Tibet." All Producer Milgrim wanted to do was to persuade Manley Halliday, the famous novelist of the '20s whom he had picked off the skids and put on his payroll, to fly East for a week. The idea, said Milgrim, was for Halliday to go sit under an elm at Webster College, the location for the musical...