Word: proprietorships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wrigley became president of the family business at 31, and head of his father's baseball team in 1934. The Cubs introduced ladies' days and radio and TV coverage of games, but the team has gone 31 years without a pennant under Wrigley's somewhat eccentric proprietorship. In the '60s he tried out the notorious "rotating coach" system, replacing a single manager with several coaches. A reclusive man who seldom went to his ball park, he, alone of all baseball owners, refused to hold night games at ivy-covered Wrigley Field, declaring that they could disturb...
...production does not broach the significant themes of war and romance that exist in the play, it does execute a nice variation on the old country mouse/city mouse story. Bluntschli, you see, is the unscrupulous and urbane businessman (in the course of the play, he inherits the proprietorship of six hotels) who displays his acumen by fleecing the Bulgarians during war treaty negotiations, of 50 prisoners of war for 200 flea-ridden horses. This is Bluntschli the mobile mercenary, the modern and disinterested man who, like Andrew Undershaft in Major Barbara, sells his services to the highest bidder...
...must decide that changes in the ownership of American international carriers are in the "national interest." Considering his troubles at TWA plus an even more checkered career as controlling shareholder of Northeast Airlines from 1962 to 1964, Hughes did not seem the ideal candidate for sole proprietorship of Air West. Even so, Nixon approved Hughes' application in April...
This rapid industrialization has had its hazards. Industry has been favored at the expense of agriculture. Even though the land reform in 1950 created a broad-based, independent peasant proprietorship for the first time in Korean history (North or South), the farmer has not shared equally in the boom...
...more than technologists, farmers have polluted the earth-by impoverishing the soil, contaminating the water. Worse, they have polluted the soul. They first introduced the corrupting concept of proprietorship into society. They "degraded sexuality" by connecting it to "productivity." So much for the agrarian idyll...