Word: bond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make a suggestion as to a plan for life subscriptions? Why not sell your subscribers Subscription Bonds?" The amount of seventy dollars, named in the sample bond enclosed, is fixed on the supposition that the money invested with you can be made to pay 5% with safety, and that you can afford to make a subscription price of $3.50 to these subscribers. The rate of interest on the bonds, and the subscription price to them, would have to be determined and the amount of the bond fixed in accordance with the facts...
...only would these Subscription Bonds be bought by individuals, but they would make appropriate birthday presents, graduation presents, and wedding presents. If TIME continues to improve, they will be handed down from father to son, their value to the possessor increasing with time. In 1979 I can imagine a man of 70 saying to his grandson, "Here is a Subscription Bond for your graduation present. My father gave it to me when I graduated in 1929. The only condition is that you let me read TIME as long as I live. I hope you will keep this to hand...
...prize at the accompanying rodeo. With his five helpers, he has already this season rounded up more than 350 horses, many of which will end their days at the Hanson Packing Co., Butte. Mont., horse-cannery. For the wild horse concession, Catcher Skelton has put up a $2,500 bond...
...King George is everybody's King ! And the first words all those listening throughout the Empire would wish me to say are those of thanksgiving to Almighty God for the King's recovery. His patience and courage drew the sympathy of all nations and proved a new bond of human brotherhood. Never has loyalty of his people been more affectionately centred on the Throne than it is at this moment...
...American straphangers, of course. Where bond issues reach into thousands of millions, the banking fraternity will whoop it up in glee, of course. What if the wary investor steers clear of such bonds, having in mind fresh cancellations of German bonds 5c per $100? There are plenty of estates held in trust and plenty of innocent widows and orphans on whom the bank's allotment will be palmed off all over the United States...