Word: investors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inventor of and apparently chief investor in this new industry is Garnet Carter, the mild, easygoing, drawling owner of Fairyland Inn on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. About a year ago Mr. Carter did what many a U. S. hosteler had done in the past-installed a miniature putting course on his lawns. Finding guests used this more than they did his $340,000 regular course, he made improvements. Tunnels, bunkers, miniature traps were added. Then he invented a putting green made of cotton seed hulls, sure to wear long and well...
...margin an investor, speculator, or gambler in stocks puts up a fraction of the amount needed to purchase the stock he has bought. The broker puts up the rest of the money, charging the investor, etc., interest on : this balance. The money put up by the investor represents the broker's margin of safety, and if the stock declines in value the investor must put up more money, thus keeping the broker's margin as wide as before...
...just as it did last time, though it is to be hoped that the movement can be kept within the bounds of reason when the next bull market really gets under way. The greatest danger lies in the lack of judgment on the part of the average speculator and investor. Mob psychology invariably rules the day, and the elemental principle that stocks are a much more attractive buy when low than when high has no effect in curbing the unbounded optimism of the American people, once the ball starts rolling...
...Germany has rolled from lean to prosperous years, this state of affairs has come to be known in Socialist Berlin as "The Reichsbank Problem"?the problem being how to cut down the original Capitalist investor's paunchy profits, and how to give the Government more money...
Wall Street Issue. Bigger than "sanctions" is Wall Street. Can and will the U. S. investor buy up huge blocs of the reparations bonds which Europe hopes to put on the market as soon as the Young Plan comes into effect, thus pouring billions of U. S. dollars into the treasuries of the Allied Powers, and leaving the U. S. investor with security in the shape of a German promise...