Word: invest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of talking about new taxes, Unifruit felt that it needed assurance against extra tax burdens now, and an end to Moscow-wired union squabbles, before it could safely invest the millions necessary to rebuild wrecked Tiquisate. Last week company officials, received by Guatemala's young President Jacobo Arbenz, tried to get such assurance. They did not. Arbenz bounced the issue down to the "ministerial level," where it remained deadlocked...
...Southwest, where some cities have grown 80% in the last ten years compared to a 15% overall U.S. growth. This week, Fred Lazarus thought it time to cash in on the "highly significant movement." He announced that Federated, the third biggest department-store chain in the U.S., will invest $20 million in a new link of seven department stores, called Fedway, in small and medium-sized cities. First to get the new Fedway stores will be fast-growing Amarillo and Wichita Falls, Texas. After the first seven are finished, Lazarus says confidently, there will be "many more in the West...
...university's primary aim is to make money on football, then it should invest some of its capital in a professional team such as the Chicago Bears. Harvard is an educational institution; its reputation is built on its education, and only fluctuations in the standard of education will effect that reputation in the long run. If football can be a part of education without creating an elite group in the student body or damaging students' academic careers, so much the better. It will matter little what teams we play in addition to our traditional rivals or what our record...
...thing, he must wear clothes, and, for another, he must invest his money in something other than intoxicating beverages...
Home-Town Favorites. One reason is that the public is back in. In Chicago, a stockbroker told how his cabdriver asked him about Motorola and a hairdresser wanted advice on how to invest $5,000 in "sound stocks...