Word: invested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sucker.... I never did so much in the market although I did do pretty well in the motion picture business. . . . My experience is that money made in speculation is negligible in amount when compared to the returns received by those who invest their money in gilt-edged securities and hold on to them...
...high. Treasury 4%'s, due 1944-54, could not be bought for less than 109 while Treasury 3½%'s due 1940-43, were quoted above 105. Liberty bonds at 3½% were more valuable than they had ever been since they were issued in 1917. No one who wanted to invest in a direct obligation of the U. S. Treasury could buy it cheap enough to net him 3% on his money...
...Government bonds go to a yield of less than 3%. It meant that in spite of the topheavy public debt, the Government can still go on borrowing the New Deal's pocket money easily and cheaply. To be sure, if investors take confidence and start once more to invest in industry, the great surplus of investable cash will subside and Government bond prices will sink. But this possibility would please the Treasury even more, for relief expenses would fall, the Government would spend less, and tax receipts would begin to increase. Chief worry of economists last week was that this...
...already know. Confining itself chiefly to a de scription of how the company operates, it did reveal that dividends of from 20% to 50% were paid between 1910 and 1930. In 1930-32 Hudson's Bay Co. lost money, but last year, on a total Canadian invest ment of $27,337,000, it showed a profit...
Included in Workers' Song Book 1934 is "God To The Hungry Child." The words: Slowly and Freely Hungry child, I did not make this world for you, You didn't buy any stock in my railroad, You did not invest in my corporation...