Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farm lands and buildings; their other holdings must be sold to the government at specified prices for distribution to sharecropping farmers. Along with most of the other 450 wealthy families, the landlords of Fars have fought the land distribution law by helping to foment street riots in Teheran, falsifying ownership records with the connivance of provincial officials, forging ballots in local elections. Recently, the landlords won powerful allies by enlisting Moslem mullahs who are using their pulpits to frighten illiterate, landless peasants out of demanding their legal rights...
...months, the nation's champion newspaper hunter, Samuel I. Newhouse, 67, had stalked the enticing prey. Now it seemed all but in the bag. In Omaha, the World-Herald board of directors, their fears of absentee ownership apparently lulled by Newhouse assurances, accepted his bid of $40,065,780. All that intervened was a meeting of principal stockholders to ratify the board's decision. But last week, at the last moment. Outsider Newhouse lost his Omaha prize to a hometown...
...underwear and saucy injunctions such as "Now, Now Cool Off-Get Your B.V.D.s On!", made B.V.D.* an American byword and a titan of the trade. But by World War II, overextension, inefficient mills and changed buying habits had shrunk the onetime giant. Now, under different ownership, B.V.D. is headed up again. Since 1957 its plants have quadrupled to 16, and its sales have risen 52% to last year's $17.7 million. Bolstered by some recent corporate acquisitions, sales this year are running double the 1961 rate. Earnings...
...Mercury and Gemini space capsules, is worth $149 million. In the sharply competitive aerospace business, where losses come easily, McDonnell's profits have increased for twelve straight years, amounted to $13.9 million in 1962. Crusty, M.I.T.-trained "Mac" McDonnell, who controls the company with his 13% stock ownership, runs it all (TIME, March...
Conceding these initial difficulties, Donner suggested that U.S. corporations could help overcome them by such simple measures as printing their annual reports and stock certificates in foreign languages and quoting stock prices in local currencies. The benefits of global stock ownership, he declared, would infinitely reward such efforts. Individual investors the world over would benefit from "the stability provided by the broader markets and larger financial resources" of an international corporation. And the corporations would have created "a new kind of capitalism"-one, declared Donner, that could "make free private enterprise a more effective servant...