Word: ownerships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are two general arguments for government ownership of Railroads, one, that they have been run badly in the past, and two, that the Post Office is an excellent example of the efficiency with which the Government can run a large business if it applies itself. Both arguments are ridiculous...
...these same things have happened in private business of all types. Some would advise government ownership of all private business for this reason. That is the conclusion to which all those who argue for Government Ownership of Railroads must logically be driven. But Germany has been carrying on her industries with great success since 1884, under a rigid governmental control. This control has been emulated in the Securities Bills recently passed through Congress here. At least we can give them a chance to be tested in practice...
...agreement President Thomson was tried first. Aside from the question of venue-whether the crime, if any had been committed in Farmer Bosshard's county-the trial revolved largely around a prospectus which asserted that "the earnings of the group applicable to stock ownership of the Northwest Bancorporation" were $3.20 per share for 1930. The State tried to prove that since earnings of the subsidiary banks were not actually paid to the parent company, the parent company really had no earnings at all; and since Farmer Bosshard bought the stock of the parent company under the impression that...
While the University parking lot is centrally located, fenced in, and supplied with watchmen, only a substantial reduction in the monthly rate will make it financially worthwhile to students. Despite Mr. Durant's opinion to the contrary, students do not consider their ownership of automobiles so much of a luxury that they can afford to pay the fifty per cent more a month for the privilege of keeping their cars on the University lot. For other students, to whom the rate is unimportant, the space...
...Last autumn a conference of Wisconsin Methodists vexed and alarmed laymen by calling capitalism "unChristian, unethical and anti-social," plumping for "social ownership and democratic management of the principal means of production and distribution...