Word: invest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experiment being tried in Baffins Bay Land by the Hudson Bay Company, though so far it has met with considerable difficulties, has not discouraged them. Mr. Sale told me in London in October that they were intending to invest more money in the proposition. I cannot but feel, however, from what my friends who have been missionaries in Baffins Land have told me of that country, that it is a much more difficult proposition there than it would be in Labrador. The shipping certainly would be much more difficult, because the country is north of the dangerous Straits of Hudson...
...Germany, however, where this kind of stage has been in the use for 15 years, each theatre has a resident company, and the producer is generally the owner of the building. Therefore, it pays him to invest money in improving his production by the installation of the hydraulic stage...
...then, the more we owe abroad, the better it is for our manufacturers, for they are enabled to export more. And every dollar that we pay Americans for carrying our goods is that much lost purchasing power for our foreign customers. Were shipping as efficient (profitable) a way of investing capital as manufacturing, this would involve no loss to the country. But the hard struggle to meet foreign competition which our ship owners have had for half a century shows that shipping is no longer an industry in which we have a "comparative advantage". Why, then, invest our money...
...need to be secure in order to be an idealist, and it is American idealism, its immense good nature, its simplicity, its readiness to believe as well of others as of itself, which is at the back of both these efforts to cure the world of one its most invest- erate vices, or at least to assuage the worst of its ills. The weakness of the League of Nations is that its methods are too rigid for easy working and its powers too slight for its needs. So America, which begat the League and then deserted it, set to work...
...first speaker of the evening, Professor Carver urged that sound business and paying investments were the best remedy for the unemployment situation. "It is mathematically demonstrable", he said, "that it is better for the unemployed for you to invest your money in productive enterprise rather then to give it away. Good business and good business alone is the only permanent cure for unemployment...