Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...covered, 15-page booklet (price: 3d.) violently rejected not only the Schuman Plan but the whole idea of an integrated Western Europe based on a free economy. The only way Western Europe could be saved, said the Labor Party's little book, was through Socialist planning and public ownership of industry. Britain must not surrender any of its sovereignty to a supranational body, since such a body would be dominated by non-Socialists who would interfere with Britain's domestic planning. The pamphlet also came out flatly against a Council of Europe with any real legislative power...
Congressmen said that it was excessive abuses of the present lenient system which has existed for many years that led to the current "reforms." The most famous case is the ownership of the Mueller Macaroni Co. by New York University. The courts did not wait for legislative action, ruling early this month that N.Y.U. must pay back taxes on its profits...
...proudest possession for more than six centuries. Because of a tendency by Orvieto's bishops to regard the reliquary as the exclusive possession of the church, there have been various papal bulls confirming Pope Urban IV's original directive that it belonged to the people of Orvieto. Ownership is today symbolized by the distribution of the four keys to the reliquary: one is held by the artist who cares for it and one each by the mayor, the town council, and the bishop. The possibility, unforeseen by Urban IV, that the mayor and certain of the town council...
...been a leader in the utility industry's fight against encroachment of public power. Four years before C.E.I. was divorced from North American Co. under the Utility Holding Company Act's "death sentence," Cleveland's Cyrus Eaton led a movement to bring C.E.I, under public ownership as a part of Cleveland's existing municipal power plant. Lindseth helped drum up an opposition which united management, labor and newspapers on C.E.I.'s side. Private ownership won. But Lindseth isn't letting his guard down. Says he: "The cold war against freedom of enterprise here...
...cars which the railroads themselves didn't want. Snapped the Wall Street Journal: 'If the Government were to go into the freight car owning business, a logical next tep would be the freight car manufactur-ng business. And a third likely move would be toward railroad ownership...