Word: investments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...residents of Somerset County (Far Hills, Bernardsville, Peapack) with 10-to-4 o'clock jobs, but who do hold a higher head than the 9-to-5 commuters of Essex County (Montclair and the Oranges). They own comfortable homes, drive two cars, belong to country clubs, invest in stocks & bonds, vote the Republican ticket straight. Last week these conservative and substantial citizens of New Jersey's 5th Congressional district staged a major political revolt which augured ill for the G. O. P. and President Hoover...
...visited the U. S., lectured for a term at Princeton University. He lives in Paris with his second wife, four children. Maurois' early biographies were like novels and he admits that "at heart, the novel appeals to me much more than biography. It is terribly difficult to invest real life with any kind of unity and beauty. . . . Life is complicated. It is not simple enough." Echoing critics might apply the same criticism to Maurois' Lyautey: might add that Maurois has told much of Lyautey's achievements, little of the simple facts of his life. Other (translated) books...
College is a sort of bank into which thousands, each year, invest four years of life. In the living at college something of the attention given a bank balance can be paid life itself and drafts and deposits must be made with the aim of maintaining the balance of gentlemen...
When cotton was selling for 10, per Ib. early in April. William Wrigley Jr., Chicago gum tycoon, thought it looked like a good investment. He announced he would buy 200,000 bales with the proceeds of his gum sales in the South (TIME, April 13). Last week cotton hovered just above 6? per Ib., which meant that Gum Man Wrigley had so far sustained a 40% paper loss. But 6? cotton looked like a good investment to another Chicagoan. Edward Aloysius Cudahy Jr., president of Cudahy Packing Co. More cautious than Gum Man Wrigley, Meat Packer Cudahy announced that...
...Which is better and how much per annum ?to invest $28,800 in 10% bonds at 150, or 8% bonds...