World Wide Chemistry - C&EN Global Enterprise (ACS Publications)

Nov 5, 2010 - Industries previously nationalized were coal, electricity, inland transport, cable and radio, airways, and the Bank of England. African-...
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TVontdTOide ftCteifUu&Ui, BritisL· Gas Indu st ry Nationalised Britain's Labor government took over the billion.-dollar gas industry on May 1, making it. the .seventh major industry to be nat ionalizcd since the Laborites came to ^jower four 3"cars ago. The state thus acquired 1,046 private or municipally owned .tças companies. Immediate? changes will bo largely administrativ-e, a national gas oouncil and 12 regional boards assuming supervision. Owners are? to b e compensate