Word: investing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American people . . . will make no efforts for a common defense unless their [European] partners value their freedom so high that they are willing to exert all their forces. Obviously, the U.S. will invest strong forces in Germany only if the Germans themselves participate in the defense of their country...
...factory site. Many a farmer shelled out forthwith, and the investors were soon rewarded for their faith. Ford, they were told, had simply been testing them. To escape inheritance taxes, he had decided to divide his vast fortune among poor and worthy people-if they now wanted to invest further, he would issue certificates which would repay them...
...help sell the Street, Schram stumped the U.S. His plain, corn-fed manner convinced many a U.S. citizen that the stock market was a good place to invest money. Schram campaigned to cut the tax on odd-lot transactions (mainly for the benefit of small investors), helped persuade Congress to write a more liberal capital-gains...
Retailers, whose sales had been lagging, were also taking a brighter view. In New York City's garment center last week, buyers finished ordering $200 million in fall clothes, some 10% more than they were willing to invest last year...
There is no doubt that there are plenty of supports under the market. The most notable are the fast-growing investment trusts (TIME, July 11), which are pouring some $500 million a year into the market, much of it from people who have never bought any stock before. In the offing are millions more from the huge pension funds now being set up by company after company. Just as individuals are shifting from bonds, which pay only 2%-3% interest, into higher paying stocks, so pension fund administrators are planning to put much of their money into blue chips...