Word: ownerships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accelerated depreciation schedule will go into immediate effect for companies with 25% Canadian ownership...
...unthinkable in prewar Japan. Today, an estimated 6,000,000 Japanese-many of them housewives, factory workers and shopkeepers-own stocks. An average trading day on the Tokyo Exchange sees no fewer than 100 million shares of stock change hands. The trail blazer in this phenomenal growth of stock ownership is a jovial, pipe-chewing kabuya (securities broker) named Tsunao Okumura, who has fought public apathy, occupation forces, and the power of Kabutocho, Japan's Wall Street, to educate the Japanese public in the benefits of owning stocks...
...worker in Nomura's research department before the war, Okumura admired Merrill Lynch's corporate philosophy of people's capitalism, made a study of the American firm's operations. When he took over as head of Nomura in 1948, he began to push widespread stock ownership. He put ads in newspapers, made scores of lectures and even organized tours to plants to show potential small investors what they would own a part...
Railroadmen aim at having on hand the equivalent of the number of boxcars they own, even though they may be someone else's. They use a "percentage of equivalent ownership" to show their boxcar wealth, worry when equivalence drops below 90%. While such Eastern roads as the Pennsylvania had a 137.4% rate in March, the New Haven 164.8%, and the Reading 182.2%, many Western roads were clearly suffering: the Burlington had only 66.6%, the Northern Pacific 62.3%, the Great Northern...
...Floyd country the welfare royalties are being paid and the method of mine ownership is clear. B.F. Reed may be rich, but his money now comes from banking and other investments rather than from coal exlusively. Perry Country is almost entirely non-union, and the operators have used a maze of dodging techniques to avoid signing a contract. In many cases a mine has been organized, only to have ownership transferred or a new "paper" company set up to run the mine without union restrictions. Because of greater injustices and higher unemployment, the picketing was more violent and tempers...