Word: ownerships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Employees of Cincinnati's Enquirer struck a soft spot in the hearts of newsmen everywhere nearly four years ago when they raised $7,600,000 to rescue the paper from sale to the opposition and to give themselves a share in its ownership (TIME, June 9, 1952 et seq.). Last week, though the Enquirer (circ. 206,408) is Cincinnati's most prosperous daily, the experiment came to failure. A block of securities that ensures working control of the paper went on sale to the highest bidder...
...sold it back to the people during the famine for gold rings, cattle and land. But there has been great dispute about Joseph's right to appropriate surplus crops and then compel the people to pay for them. What is more, his system eventually resulted in state ownership of all the land, and some people thought that was entirely too much government control...
Much of the Scrolls' nine-year history is marked by uncertainty: first, in the incredible scramble by the Bedouin to find them; later, in determining their ultimate ownership; and still later, in assuring their authenticity. How much of the vast Essene library was lost by idle tribesmen, who neither understood nor cared for the Scrolls' significance, is unknown. Scholars hope that most of the scraps have been collected. Many pieces were returned when the Jordan Government's Department of Antiquities boosted its rate per square centimeter. Legally, all the Scrolls became the Department's property on discovery; it could later...
...surrounding the great archeological find. Political unrest in Palestine worsened with bloody Arab-Isreali clashes. After a priest at St. Mark's died of shell fire, the Archbishop decided to remove the Scrolls to safety, which to him, at least, meant the United States. There was question of ownership, because the Jordan government has first rights on all archeological finds. Consequently Samuel was not able to sell the Scrolls immediately for the large sum he had hoped. Not until seven years later could he dispose of his priceless possession, despite an exhibition in the Library of Congress. Samuel finally used...
Like many a disillusioned man, Bhave has changed his attitude from a vague idealism to a desperate radicalism. Said he, dashing aside the garlands that were thrust upon him last week: "Bhoodan stands for land revolution by abolishing private ownership. I want to wipe out individual land ownership...