Word: invest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Investors will be allowed to take out their profits in their original currency. "Those who invest dollars quite naturally want to get dollars in return." ¶ The government will guarantee repatriation of foreign investments. "This includes capital investment, capital gains and reinvested profits." ¶ Foreign investors will be allowed to hold up to 60% (i.e., majority control) of the capital of a new industry. Only exception: public utilities. ¶ Tax concessions for new industries will be granted...
...back up your initial position. Looking European will help. Buy a belted jacket and a pair of black Italian sandals, be generous with tins of Players' cigarettes, and affect a slight difficulty in getting used to American liquor. Little things make a big impression: you might, for instance, invest...
...mean his children are dearer to you than your own?" Dr. Small asked. "Yes," said Edith. "You don't know how to invest. Buy electronic stock and get ten percent." Just to prove she knew how to invest if her husband didn't, Edith gave Jules Lack $10,000 of her $125,000 inheritance. He promised to pay her back, with 8% interest, in September...
This exposure to anti-capitalist propaganda did not stop Arbenz from piling up capitalist wealth for himself. As Arèvalo's Defense Minister, he could borrow and invest money from state banks, acquire businesses, land, and homes. Soon he was rich enough to invite Costa Rica's leading Communist to dinner at a luxurious villa and well enough briefed to discuss Marxist ideas with his guest. If Arbenz had been a widely traveled or broadly educated man, he might have been more skeptical, but in Guatemala there were actually rigid social stratifications and reactionary landlords, just...
...Surplus to Invest...