Word: invest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find cuts her present $35 million-a-year petroleum imports by much, the first well is already producing 300 barrels a day for Haifa's refinery. Though foreign firms have not exactly broken down Israel's doors in answer to the Socialist government's invitation to invest, the $200 million that U.S. Jews have spent for state-development bonds have made Israel one of the leading lands for private U.S. investment...
Fast Recovery. Only in emergencies does Curtice move in and take over. Soon after he became president, he stepped in to straighten out the Allison Division (aircraft engines), which was in trouble because it had been afraid to invest money in research and development unless armed forces orders were assured. By contrast, Competitor Pratt & Whitney had sunk millions in engine development...
With the best idea in the world, a toymaker still takes a tremendous gamble. To put a new narrow-gauge train under Christmas trees two years from now, Marx will invest $500,000 in dies and materials. Unlike most toymakers, Marx finances his operation out of capital, thus can push a toy into production faster than anyone in the industry...
Such labor leaders as C.I.O. Research Director Stanley H. Ruttenberg plumped for income-tax cuts to beef up consumer buying. "Tax policies designed to grant an increasing degree of special privilege to business investment will not and cannot produce long-run economic growth and stability," said Ruttenberg. "What is required is not additional tax privileges for business and wealthy investors, but direct tax cuts for the great mass of taxpayers . . . This would result in expanding consumer markets that will make it profitable for business to invest in new and more efficient plant structures and machines . . . [and] absorb the increasing available...
...machinery and woolens which they should be sending abroad to pay for higher imports. The result is classical inflation: demand for goods and services far exceeds supply; prices and wages are spiraling. Britain, in a word, is trying to do too much-to keep up its armaments, invest in its Commonwealth, renovate its economy and increase its living standard, all at once...