Word: ownerships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York to Los Angeles needs North-South feeders. Last month, therefore, John Hertz and his associates in Lehman Brothers offered to buy it for $3,250,000 ($1,000,000 cash, rest in notes). It so happens that North American Aviation is controlled by General Motors Corp. through ownership of nearly 30% of its stock. The various Hertz truck and bus lines are General Motors' valued customers and shrewd Financier Hertz knew G. M. would think twice before snubbing his bid for Eastern. But John Hertz reckoned without Eddie Rickenbacker...
Under Pats the number of new Estonian farms carved out of the estates of former German aristocrats has now reached 60,000. Some 40,000 small Estonian farmers have risen from tenants to full ownership. Last week, two days after celebrating Estonia's 20th anniversary, Pats won, hands down, the first general election held under Estonia's new constitution...
...delighted school, which likes nothing better than to bring its students face to face with Life, loaded its entire senior (high school) class of 47 boys and girls on a train and shipped them south, with Principal G. Derwood Baker and six teachers, to study Government planning and Government ownership...
...thing that $9,100 of Sloan money had bought amazed them. Most of the class had been in favor of Government planning when they set out, and were more confirmed in that view when they returned. But no longer was a majority of the class in favor of Government ownership of utilities. Learning for the first time that there were two sides to the question, enough pro-Government-ownership students had switched to an undecided or opposite position to make the median score of the class neutral...
...rabid pro-German." Despite his denial of disloyal acts, the regents that night fired him for "his attitude." Schaper's friends charged the real reason for his dismissal was not his attitude toward the War but his advocacy, as a member of the Minneapolis Charter Commission, of public ownership of the street railways. Said Pierce Butler: "We must see that sincere, loyal Americans are made instructors of our youth, and not 'blatherskites' such as this...