Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rumor, the Ford Motor Co. finally did it. In May, Ford's board announced, the company will ask its stockholders to approve a two-for-one stock split that will increase the number of outstanding Ford shares to 110 million. At the same time, Ford directors made the ownership of Ford stock a bit more attractive by increasing the quarterly dividend from...
...Corner. For Frank Pace and General Dynamics alike, the results of insufficient control at the top have been painful. Today, General Dynamics is being run not by Pace but by an emergency committee of five directors including Chicago Financier Colonel Henry Crown-the man who last week sold his ownership of the world's tallest building, the Empire State, for $65 million. Among other things, the directors' committee is seeking a new chief executive officer. Pace, who at 49 finds his big-time business career probably at an end, expects to step down in April, "if the company...
...where political tempers are close to flash point at the best of times. London was especially worried, since Katanga shares a 1,100-mile border with Britain's tense Northern Rhodesia protectorate. Moreover, some Britons and Frenchmen also have heavy financial interests in Katanga itself,* mostly through part ownership of the rich Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, one of the world's biggest copper and cobalt producers, which (according to a report by U.N. Acting Secretary-General U Thant) has been supplying arms to Katanga...
John N. Plank, assistant professor of Government, who accompanied Kennedy on his summer trip to Latin America, added that in Northeastern Brazil the and reformers favor private ownership of the land...
Police said they were surprised by the smallness of the increase, and reported that no plans are being considered now to alter the University's regulations on automobile ownership...