Word: invest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ballyhoo. It took the form of three suggestions that were certainly not impure ideas. Chou hoped that Japan would: 1) extend Nanking's power north and south; 2) control business less stringently; 3) change the form of Japanese-Chinese joint industries so that Chinese might be induced to invest in them...
...Plan assumes that when the ceiling on Britain's capacity to produce consumer goods has been reached the people are left with excess purchasing power, which they will not voluntarily invest in Government bonds. Since only 200 people in England still have incomes (after taxes) exceeding $20,000 a year, most of the excess purchasing power is in the hands of the working class...
Only businesses which will escape are industries with enormous capital invest ments and bad earnings records - meaning, above all, the railroads. Most of the carriers can multiply their profits before they reach the excess-profits minimum...
...Washington is not to apply for another loan. Instead he has a better idea: to organize a new operating company and offer stock to Jesse Jones and other RFC officials. Now said Mr. Miller, he would learn once and for all "whether New Dealers have the courage to invest in American enterprise. I should have some fun interviewing the directors of RFC and trying to get their names on the dotted line." What he expected to have on the line when his trip ended: dots...
Last spring, when she inherited $100, she looked around for something to invest her money in. In Annsville Creek, N. Y. she spied just the thing: a 22-foot motorboat, which she was sure could be flossied up and converted into a profit...