Word: investive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regretted that equity. It had paid him no profits. And when Mr. Loew, the furrier, came to tell him how he, Marcus Loew, had seen with regret the mismanagement of the property and evolved a plan for making it pay, Mr. Warfield listened with interest. He turned the investment over to Mr. Loew. Profits began to come in. Soon Mr. Warfield, convinced of the financial genius of his new friend, induced Mr. Loew to invest in a theatrical venture. The other partners were Adolph Zukor (now head of Famous Players) and the late Mitchell Mark. The venture was a penny...
...shares on which I could have realized a fortune during the War-well, today, I don't think anyone would take them off my hands. ... I need hardly add that Baldwin's Ltd, is an old family business. . . . "All my life I have consistently refused to invest my money abroad. I have always been, for good or evil, in British industry. It is for that that I am being attacked tonight...
...Wellesley College, Professor Lawrence P. Smith distributed among his pupils in a course on the financial organization of society, $25,000 each, with instructions to go and invest or speculate in corporate securities, stocks or bonds, on any stock exchange or curb market in the country, from Feb. 21 to May 1-$25,000 apiece of real money, theoretically. The market-players last week announced "profits" and "losses" taken, to date. The total profits were $14,000; losses $660, with plungers "selling short" and conservatives "holding on like grim death" during the recent wild days in Wall street (see BUSINESS...
...Third Liberty Loan bonds to offer them directly to the Government for cash through Federal Reserve Banks. The owners of the bonds may set the price at which they offer them, and the Government will buy those offered at the lowest prices. In this way it is planned to invest about $100,000,000 of the sinking fund for public debt retirement. Proposals must be made before March 10, and payment will be made on March...
...days later Harvey Firestone, tire manufacturer, who is opening great rubber plantations in Liberia, told the investigators of the House of Representatives that, while the Philippines possess all the qualifications for producing rubber, no attempt to invest capital in rubber plantations can be made there until the land laws are revised and the political situation stabilized...