Word: ownerships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sticks,' the movement toward monopoly continues," said Harry W. Laidler, Executive Director of the League for Industrial Democracy, last night at a meeting of the Liberal Club in the Lowell House Common Room. "However," he continued, "big monopolies make Socialism easy." Dr. Laidler also claimed that the separation of ownership and management which is so widespread today invalidates the argument that industry can be run only with profit as an incentive...
...Over this entire question there has been thrown a great deal of confusion, adulterated with considerable propaganda. Experts and college professors, publicists and Congressmen have been bought up and subsidized by the usual "interested parties," and a great deal of utter bilge has been printed to demonstrate that government ownership, operation, and control, separately or collectively, are inefficient, wasteful, and corrupt. If the cost-accounts of the Tennessee plants are accurately kept and made public for general inspection, the experiments in the Valley offer hope of a final solution to this murky problem. Thus far, at any rate, the T.V.A...
...tighter and Rio Grande pilot. It has been ruled for the past half century by a dynasty of Klebergs: Robert I, who married the Captain's daughter, and Robert II. their reigning son. The Klebergs ruled but the Captain's widow, spunky little Henrietta King, kept the ownership up to her death in 1925. Her will left the estate in trust for ten or 15 years...
Well-run Cincinnati voted nay on municipal ownership for an interesting reason. The citizens there decided against buying Cincinnati Gas & Electric's plant not because they were unsympathetic to public ownership but because they plan to get their electricity from Cove Creek Dam, the Tennessee Valley Authority's proposed power plant on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. The Cincinnati Southern, municipally-owned railway, passes within 10 mi. of the proposed dam-site. Transmission lines could be cheaply strung along the right-of-way into Cincinnati where current would be distributed by a publicly-owned system...
...stated thus: "In industry the corporations will have to assume economic functions-even to taking the place of private initiative and writing finis to the capitalistic regime as now conceived-creating the best conditions and the most work possible. . . . It is not necessary to confuse private initiative with private ownership! Private property cannot and should not be abolished! But in the great industries . . . I regard the corporazione as the organ which will control...