Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Railroaded Masters. Behind the two-decade delay is the problem of rightful ownership. The French alone claim that 138 boxcars of art were railroaded into Nazi hands during the war. Many of Hitler's purchases were indeed paid for, but forced sales and confiscations from German Jewish art collectors and dealers were common. Most of the works have lost their pedigrees on paper (or as art historians call it, their provenance), and possible claims for restitution make the Bonn treasury officials touchily reluctant to give details...
Freed from the status-quo psychology that Government ownership induced, GAF intends to fight for a larger share of the U.S. chemical market. Werner plans to enlarge laboratory facilities and acquire more of the raw-material facilities on which GAF depends for supplies. GAF's future is as unpredictable as its past might have been if it had remained a free agent...
...fact that they are simultaneously labor bureaucrats, politicians, economic planners and corporate executives does not make Histadrut leaders schizo phrenic. In their philosophy of Zionism all conflicts are reconciled. Zionism, though it is socialistic in favoring collective ownership, is also a nationalist movement that does not admit class conflicts within the Israeli community. Thus the Histadrut leaders calmly fix prices and wages in their own enterprises, setting a pattern for all industry, and rarely permit strikes. At the same time they also encourage private investment, aware that it is necessary for the sake of more rapid economic growth...
...House of Commons, Opposition Leader Sir Alec Douglas-Home sharply pointed up the schizophrenia of Wilson's position: "If ownership of nuclear weapons is a sin, we do not gain absolution by appointing a master sinner to deploy the weapons for us, or by joining a syndicate which deals in these weapons." Home added that with "eight or nine fingers on the safety catch, the force would be almost totally incredible as a deterrent...
...spent in the U.S. Part of G.M.'s capital spending for the next few years will go into a new Eastern headquarters, a controversial 48-story Manhattan tower that will be completed by 1968 on the site of the tradition-encrusted Savoy Plaza Hotel; G.M. has bought half ownership of the new building from its British planners...