Word: investment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basis is clear, he warned: the U.S. should go slow in making loans lest it foster "projects which cut across lines of our own interests." Nevertheless, he concluded: the manner in which those new relations are worked out will determine how many U.S. companies will want to invest money in China. "[While] mistakes may be made . . . the climate for American participation in the development of China will be ... healthful and encouraging...
Autos to Sleepers. To the line-up of potential buyers of the Pullman Co.'s $80 million fleet of cars, scuttlebutt added the name of Detroit's auto body builders, the Fisher Brothers. The five vigorous Fishers, with an estimated $250 million to invest, are looking for good businesses to buy. They now own a big chunk of stock in Baldwin Locomotive Works, have an eye on Hudson Motor...
...only one who lost money in Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt's 1939 radio ventures (TIME, June 25). Last week, as the Treasury Department, the Bureau of Internal Revenue and two Congressional committees tried to unwind the General's lighthearted deals, two other men-with-money-to-invest admitted that they also had lent Elliott money, most of which they never saw again...
...upon whom has been placed the responsibility of leading the American forces, appeal to you with all possible earnestness to invest in War Bonds to the fullest extent of your capacity...
...been to Britain, talked to the chiefs of the vast and successful British cooperative societies, which have 9,000,000 members, control 24% of England's retail food sales, feed 42% of the population of Scotland. Saskatchewan's farmers knew that the co-ops also have huge investments in Argentine packing houses and creameries in New Zealand. The good news that Minister McIntosh had to tell the home folks was that the British cooperatives were ready to do more business with Canadian cooperatives. They were prepared as a starter to invest in new hog-processing plants in Saskatchewan...