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nationalization
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  • I'm going to campaign for the nationalization of the railroads," said Kip Chalmers, glaring defiantly at a small, gray man who looked at him without interest.†   (source)
  • Walking down the corridors of Taggart Transcontinental, he had heard the voice of a speaker pouring from a radio in someone's office, the kind of voice one expects to hear on unlighted street corners: it was screaming demands for the nationalization of the railroads.†   (source)
  • Even if we had a law permitting outright nationalization, it would be much better to get them as a gift, We want to leave to people the illusion that they're still preserving their private property rights.†   (source)
  • All industrial, commercial, manufacturing and business establishments of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth remain in operation, and the owners of such establishments shall not quit nor leave nor retire, nor close, sell or transfer their business, under penalty of the nationalization of their establishment and of any and all of their property.†   (source)
  • Under the Freedom Charter, nationalization would take place in an economy based on private enterprise.†   (source)
  • Nationalization: it had been a word.†   (source)
  • It calls for redistribution, but not nationalization, of land; it provides for nationalization of mines, banks, and monopoly industry, because big monopolies are owned by one race only, and without such nationalization racial domination would be perpetuated despite the spread of political power.†   (source)
  • In this respect the ANC's policy corresponds with the old policy of the present Nationalist Party which, for many years, had as part of its programme the nationalization of the gold mines which, at that time, were controlled by foreign capital.†   (source)
  • We could only guess at the foreign-exchange ins and outs, and the hidden beneficiaries, of that deal; the newspaper in the capital announced it as a kind of nationalization, with fair compensation.†   (source)
  • Long-standing commercial ties, private institutions, banks, insurance companies, and shipping companies disappeared through loss of capital, absorption through nationalization, or by simple destruction.†   (source)
  • But she heard and remembered discussions of Freud, Romain Rolland, syndicalism, the Confederation Generale du Travail, feminism vs. haremism, Chinese lyrics, nationalization of mines, Christian Science, and fishing in Ontario.†   (source)
  • I'm going to ask Ezra Stowbody why he's opposed to the nationalization of railroads, and ask Dave Dyer why a druggist always is pleased when he's called 'doctor,' and maybe ask Mrs. Bogart why she wears a widow's veil that looks like a dead crow."†   (source)
  • In the early 1950s, the prime minister, Dr. Muhammad Mossadegh, nationalized Iran's oil.†   (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
  • Because the Mexican government is going to nationalize your line any day now.†   (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
  • The mills had been nationalized, as the property of a deserter.†   (source)
  • So that the looters won't have too much to loot when they nationalize the line.†   (source)
  • "They're going to nationalize d'Anconia Copper," he said.†   (source)
  • It was to celebrate the agreement to nationalize d'Anconia Copper in about a month.†   (source)
  • I—and others like me—had been nationalized.†   (source)
  • Two days later, his business was nationalized and he was sentenced to two years in Ilava Prison, a place that had become famous for holding political prisoners and German prisoners after the war.†   (source)
  • With the Soviet Union having reunified Slovakia with the Czech Republic and creating Czechoslovakia under their influence, Lale's business was, according to him, the only one not immediately nationalized by the communist rulers.†   (source)
  • Sabina recalled how after the Communist coup all the castles in Bohemia were nationalized and turned into manual training centers, retirement homes, and also cow sheds.†   (source)
  • Hungary was overrun by the Soviets; Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal; the Chinese were supporting the Viet Minh against the French in Indochina; and the CIA had briefed Herter that the Soviets were working on a rocket that could carry a nuclear weapon thousands of miles right to the American heartland.†   (source)
  • I refuse to consider, I absolutely refuse to consider the possibility of the San Sebastian Line being nationalized!†   (source)
  • The government of the People's State of Mexico has nationalized the San Sebastian Mines and the San Sebastian Railroad.†   (source)
  • "Orren," Taggart asked cautiously, "what about those rumors that they're planning to nationalize the San Sebastian Mines?"†   (source)
  • It's a deal with a mission-a worthy, public-spirited mission-to manage the nationalized properties of the various People's States of South America, to teach their workers our modern techniques of production, to help the underprivileged who've never had a chance, to-"†   (source)
  • Dinner had been about to be served, when he had heard what he had come to hear: Senor Gonzales had mentioned-the smoke of his cigar weaving over the half-dozen men who had drifted toward his armchair-that by agreement with the future People's State of Argentina, the properties of d'Anconia Copper would be nationalized by the People's State of Chile, in less than a month, on September 2.†   (source)
  • He had lost his property-it was said-when Chile, becoming a People's State, had nationalized all properties, except those belonging to citizens of backward, non-People's countries, such as Argentina; but he had adopted an enlightened attitude and had joined the new regime, placing himself in the service of his country.†   (source)
  • In line with the enlightened policy of Senior Ramirez, the new Head of the Chilean State-who came to power on the moral slogan that man is his brother's keeper-the legislature was to nationalize the Chilean properties of d'Anconia Copper, thus opening the way for the People's State of Argentina to nationalize the rest of the d'Anconia properties the world over.†   (source)
  • Calhoun believed that the Constitutional Convention had not nationalized our government; that the sovereign states still retained "the right of judging …. when the Congress encroached upon the individual state's power and liberty.†   (source)
  • During the debates with Douglas, Lincoln dwelt on the theme again and again, and added the charge that Douglas himself was involved in a Democratic "conspiracy …. for the sole purpose of nationalizing slavery.†   (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
  • Which of them will nationalize the other?†   (source)
  • And often all the men, Mr. Leivers as well, had bitter debates on the nationalizing of the land and similar problems.†   (source)
  • We cling to the /r/, we preserve the final [Pg172] /g/, we give /nephew/ a clear /f/-sound instead of the clouded English /v/-sound, and we boldly nationalize /trait/ and pronounce its final /t/, but we drop the second /p/ from /pumpkin/ and change the /m/ to /n/, we change the /ph/(=/f/)-sound to plain /p/ in /diphtheria/, /diphthong/ and /naphtha/,[87] we relieve /rind/ of its final /d/, and, in the complete sentence, we slaughter consonants by assimilation.†   (source)
  • "After all," she said within herself, "if the land were nationalized, Edgar and Paul and I would be just the same."†   (source)
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