Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comprehensive land reform act through Parliament. Its core: buy out large landholdings, cut them into small plots (about 15 acres), help the peasantry to buy and cultivate them. The political, financial, administrative and technical difficulties are staggering. For example, some localities suffer now from too much fragmentation of land ownership; in others, the land must first have irrigation, fertilizers, etc. The slowness of the government program led last fall and spring to peasant seizures of land, especially in southern Italy, where conditions are most depressing. Blood was shed, and the Communists shouted. To forestall similar incidents, De Gasperi has launched...
...parlour game is sweeping England ... It is called "Monotony" and is appropriate to our times. It appears to be based on Monopoly, a game [in] which . . . each player's object was to acquire the private ownership of . . . house property, and so forth. In Monotony the aim is to nationalise everything...
...interest to fakers or collectors either. Moreover, graphology experts ruled that the writing on the canvas was Van Gogh's-he formed his Vs, Ts and eights in peculiar ways that forgers could easily not have noticed. Finally, the T-men traced a mark of ownership on the back of the picture to an Arles pastor named Salles, who is known to have befriended Van Gogh...
...University has for several years officially disfavored the ownership of automobiles by students. Cambridge ordinances at present prohibit overnight parking on all streets...
Last week the Council of the Allied High Commission began acting as though it meant business. It ordered Farben's German properties broken up into an unspecified number of "economically sound and independent companies [to] ensure dispersion of ownership and control and promote competition . . ." The new law provided that no buyer or group of buyers would be allowed to merge two or more of the companies without an O.K. from the Allied High Commission, and it barred war criminals as well as major Nazi offenders from taking part in control or management of any of the companies...