Word: invest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard doesn't invest in football players, but there are still some University holdings which Treasurer William H. Claflin '00 doesn't like to be reminded of too often, and the Ritz Tower in New York is going to be one of them. The betting around Milk Street is that the sky-scraping Park Avenue hostelry will be dropped into the pot of so-called "special investments," which don't deserve to get into the big pool of Harvard property because of their "not quite respectable" character...
Stalwart as her massive mahogany fourposter, a hateful woman whose keen mind and force of character command respect, Regina lures her unloved and invalided husband (Herbert Marshall) home to persuade him to invest his funds in her ratty brothers' scheme: to take advantage of the South's cheap and defenseless labor by establishing a cotton factory in partnership with a Northern capitalist. When he balks, she torments him to death, then emerges triumphant over the rest of the greedy pack...
Knowing that false optimism is as dangerous to morale as pessimism, Government and press promptly loosed a heavy bombardment against such Pollyannaism. Said Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper: "I was . . . somewhat horrified. . . ." Fumed the press: "Featherbrained! . . . Fatuous! . . . People whose peace aim is a binge . . . invest cash in a hypothetical beanfeast rather than lend it to the Government...
...same time, the licensing policy of the Commission encourages our entrance into the operation of new stations in the fields of television and FM. The older service of broadcasting is profitable, but the new services are yet to produce any revenue. Apparently the Commission favors our loss of present investments and revenue, but wants us to invest in new fields...
...Treasury this week was working on a plan to collect income taxes in advance. Some time after July 4, tax-anticipation certificates will go on sale, permitting taxpayers to invest their money in taxes the same year they earn...