Word: investment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grown up" to its responsibilities for world leadership, and needs more intellectual cod-liver oil. Publisher Ascoli is prepared to invest in The Reporter $1,500,000 of his own fortune and that of his wife, Marion, daughter of Julius Rosenwald (Sears, Roebuck...
...letters from every state and Canada flooded into the Oklahoman's city rooms; the telephones rang constantly with long-distance callers. Four out of ten letter-writers advised Mrs. H. to seek comfort in God; one letter suggested consolation in whisky. Hundreds urged Mrs. H. to invest her money in ventures ranging from a dog-mange remedy to a sure-fire system for playing the horses...
There was a limit, he said, to the money the U.S. could invest in its own security. Added General Bradley: "It is clearly apparent that in the absence of any precipitant danger, the nation must curb within reason that share of the national income it would devote to its common defenses . . . The danger of conflict today appears to have slackened, partly because we are chewing sedatives in this constant war of nerves...
...have prominent businessmen speak and to hold receptions for them. Moody explained that students would be able to learn of opportunities for jobs in various; businesses and to meet men who can help them to good positions. He added that some speakers will give practical advice on how to invest money on the stock market and reveal stock trends...
...well known today. One is Erewhon ("Nowhere" roughly spelled backwards), a brilliant fantasy about a world in which sickness is treated as a crime and crime as a sickness (as is coming to be the case today) and civilization rests upon two banks, one (financial) which men invest in but deprecate, the other (religious) which the)L praise to high Heaven but seldom invest in. The second survivor, Butler's only, real novel, The Way of All Flesh, is a unique period-study of Victorian home life...