Word: ownerships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special enforcers, Castro used his "Committees for the Defense of the Revolution," numbering more than 2,000,000 members. Railing against "parasites, speculators, lumpen and laggards," C.D.R. members closed down private shops and decided which should be reopened under government ownership. To whip up national interest, the Ministry of Commerce issued daily bulletins on the number of businesses "intervened," and newspapers and radio stations played up the wonders found in the possession of Cuba's last capitalists. In Matanzas province, Mechanic Domingo Riosa had the misfortune, for example, to be caught with light bulbs, Champion spark plugs and pistons...
...undisciplined labor force. More serious, they said, was the fact that Israel could never hope to attract more than sentimental investment in its private sector while its socialist system encouraged control of 24% of the nation's overall production by Histadrut, the nationwide labor confederation, and government ownership of such key industries as aircraft and mining...
Kahlenberg's chief frustration is the necessity of tedious and tactful nego- tiation in bringing collectors out into the open, and convincing them to help. Like the studios, collectors sense the complex nature of the legal problems involved in film ownership and often prefer to hide their prints rather than risk legal battles and long expenditure of time. Although the AFI's cordial connection with the Library of Congress gives them an invaluable aid in negotiating for copies of rare films, they cannot legally guarantee an amnesty to collectors who admit ownership of black-market prints. Consequently, no uncertain skill...
...fell subject to varying fates: films were allowed to rot in forgotten Hollywood vaults; original producers sold their distribution rights to smaller distributors; copyrights elapsed and films were turned over to family heirs; others were chopped to ribbons, sections used in the making of other films; legal problems of ownership and distribution rights mounted until films became hopelessly inaccessible (Hughes's, for example), or until studios found it convenient to forget about them...
...Class. B.E.A.'s first-class passengers on the lucrative London-Paris run will be the chief beneficiaries of the change in the hotel's ownership. According to Forte's estimates, Airport Catering Service will be picking up nearly a third of the top-class beds in Paris (840 out of 3,000). "We believe the days when you could offer air transport only are over. Now you have to offer a complete travel service," says Ron Spencer, B.E.A.'s representative on A.C.S.'s board. For B.E.A., the Paris hotels are a natural. The LondonParis route...