Word: invest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...production simply by buying stocks. When one Red journalist jestingly pointed out that Anatoly Vladimirovich Sofronov is a prosperous playwright as well as editor of Ogonek, one of Russia's most successful magazines, a nearby broker quickly handed Sofronov his card, just in case he wanted to invest his money. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the journalists paid scant attention to the pictures. Instead they hobnobbed with a group of sixth-graders from Brooklyn's Ethical Culture School who were being lectured on art. "This," said Polevoy, "is the way to run a museum." At Columbia...
...been a full and satisfying one, well-paced, productive, and shaped for efficiency. It requires a real planner to conceive and carry out such a day; modern farming is no job for the amateur, the incompetent, the haphazard or the lazy. Today's farmer must invest in tractors and other expensive labor-saving equipment. A poor manager has too much to lose and too many ways to lose...
...stock have spread so fast that some 300 companies now have programs involving 2,000,000 salaried and production-line workers. This week General Motors announced the results of a poll on its plan for 112,000 salaried employees. Four out of every five eligible workers decided to invest up to 10% of their pay in G.M.'s future, and the corporation started making deductions from paychecks. Ford will bring out a similar plan to help employees buy Ford stock (if and when it is put on sale). Du Pont, which started a stock plan last month, reports that...
...complete set of appliances, expand out of the familiar farm market into the big urban markets, recruit a huge new dealer organization, then fight for a tremendous volume to make a profit. Said President McCaffrey: "We felt we'd rather take our efforts and our capital and invest them in things that are more nearly related to our main activity...
Said one confused and angry oilman: "We've got to have foreign supplies of oil, and the Administration tells us to invest our money abroad, in line with its world-trade expansion program. So we do, and this happens. What...