Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nationalized transport, coal, electric power, aviation, overseas communication and the Bank of England. It has also raised taxes and cut rations, and its popularity has taken a definite, although possibly not decisive, slump. Last week the Labor Party met at Scarborough in its annual conference to take stock of its accomplishments and chart its further aims. From Scarborough TIME Senior Editor Max Ways reported...
Dispossessed: Rumania's ex-King Michael (and family*), for "carrying on increasing maneuvers abroad against the interests of the Rumanian people." They lost 159 castles, 400,000 acres of land, 3,991,502 shares of stock, some yachts, and the right to vote the straight ticket (Communist...
...Young's own stock holdings were counted in, Alleghany's control of Central would be a "concentration of 11to 570,000 [dollars] as against a concentration of 1 to 50" which ICC had turned down in a case involving consolidation of southwestern roads...
...biggest cash deal in Hollywood history was closed last week exactly as prescribed by the script. Howard Hughes gave an $8,825,690 check to Atlas Corp.'s Floyd Odium for its 929,020 shares of stock (24%)-and control-of Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. (TIME, May 10). (Atlas still kept an interest in RKO by its ownership of warrants to buy some 300,000 shares of stock.) Despite ample warnings of the change, RKO's staff got so jittery over their new boss that RKO President Nathaniel Peter Rathvon had to pour out soothing syrup: "Mr. Hughes...
...wife. The forces of British law & order are, as usual, so immaculately polite about their business that it might tempt some U.S. observers to mayhem, just for the pleasure of meeting them. Occasionally there is a flicker of ingenuity or fright, but most of this picture is sad, stock-company stuff...