Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Down with Monopoly. A double-threat scientist-administrator on the Atomic Energy Commission from 1960 until early this year, Wilson fought to end Government monopoly in the atomic-energy field-and was largely responsible for legislation, passed last month, permitting private ownership of atomic materials...
...rush to get listed on the stock exchanges has been going on for many months, partly because U.S. companies are increasingly aware of the advantages of listing: added prestige, broader ownership of shares, more active trading in the stock. Last week they got an added reason for listing that is sure to speed up the trend. President Johnson signed a bill that gives the Government broad new authority to regulate stocks traded both on and off the exchanges...
...recent years, Brazos-Tenth has acquired about $1,000,000 worth of stock in nine Texas banks. In one recent case, ownership of a thriving little bank, Moore State Bank in Llano, Texas, changed hands after two big blocks of stock were sold-749 shares to Moursund's mother, 749 to Brazos-Tenth. Those shares constituted controlling interest in the bank, and one Moore State stockholder said later: "After the transaction was closed, Mr. Johnson spoke of it to me at a party and thanked me for selling...
...least-known philanthropists in the U.S.-if his beneficiaries blabbed that they were getting money, James took it back.* He secretly gave away some $20,000,000 before he died in 1941, but he was famous chiefly for his beard, his fancy for orchids and yachts, and his ownership of securities representing one-seventh of the railroad mileage of the U.S. An urbane fellow, James listed hirrlself in Who's Who as a "capitalist...
Founded by Englishmen William Newbold and Robert Geddes (the British ownership was severed in 1897), the bank opened its doors amid the civil war raging between the foreign-import Emperor Maximilian and Mexican Revolutionary Benito Juárez. Remarkably, it succeeded in winning the business of merchants and spreading into several branches, partly because it adopted the still-popular British stance of doing business with both sides and partly because its peso notes became Mexico's first nationwide paper currency. (The bank's 20-peso note shows Benito Juárez, Mexico's 33rd President, and Bartolome...