Word: invest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Help Humanity. Albuquerque's friends and creditors had fallen for a scheme of classic simplicity. Starting two years ago, he offered to buy fellow officers' cars for 30% more than their value, and pay off in five months. Then he turned the cars into ready cash to invest in any likely venture (except the liquor and cigarette businesses and outright gambling; these were taboo, he said, under the Baptist principles he had been converted to while in flight training at Texas' Randolph Field in 1944). "I want to help humanity," he said. "Brazil is a country with...
...hoarded more than 15 times as much gold as there is in the Bank of France. The obvious reasons: 1) Frenchmen distrust their own paper currency, which seems to buy less every day; 2) many wealthy Frenchmen have avoided paying taxes for so long that they no longer dare invest their money for fear of being found out. By restoring confidence in the franc, and by waiving prosecution of past tax offenders, Pinay hoped to lure back into useful circulation some $10 billion worth of hoarded jewels, dollars and bullion. He won his point narrowly...
...story concerns one Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant, who travels around Russia buying up the names of "dead souls"-serfs who have died since the last census. Once he has accumulated a large enough roster of these imaginary people, Chichikov intends to raise a huge mortgage on them, invest the money somehow or other and make himself a rich man. It is at once an uproariously funny story and a sulphuric satire on Russian society. Gogol was able to sound the deepest and most secret of men's motives as surehandedly as a peasant pawing up his potato crop...
Having posed a fairly dramatic problem in human relationships, the movie promptly drops it for a lengthy debate over what Meeker should do with his $900 bankroll. Should he invest it in Whitmore's gas station? Or should he buy a boat and go junketing about the West Coast with Jean Hagen? The film never recovers from this odd digression, and Meeker's eventual cure is accomplished with Hollywood mirrors: in a tropical downpour, he saves his nephew's life, clears up his war neurosis in a brisk man-to-man chat with Whitmore...
Canadians may now spend their money anywhere-to travel, to buy & sell, to invest in stocks and private businesses in the U.S., in French champagne, Brazilian coffee or Russian caviar. Canadian businessmen can trade their goods in any country and convert foreign currency at home. Foreign investors, whose prewar investments have been frozen in Canada, can now get them...