Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kelso, her four-time Horse of the Year, winner of 33 races and $1,641,127. He was seven years old now, had won only two cheap allowance races all year, had finished fifth, 14 lengths behind that new champion Gun Bow the last time he ran in a stake. Mrs. du Pont simply ignored it all and sent her "Kelly" out to run again...
...building new plants, expanding old ones and buying into foreign companies. Last week the Commerce Department announced that private U.S. investment abroad-investments in plant and equipment, bank credits, stocks and bonds -rose by $6.3 billion in 1963 to a record $66.4 billion. Already this year, the foreign investment stake of U.S. industry has risen beyond $68 billion, and Commerce predicts that the "vigorous growth rate will continue for some time ahead...
...charter. All they have to do is find a suitable location, convince state or federal examiners that the area could support a new bank, then raise the money for it. Businessmen often collect enough by passing the hat among themselves, and sometimes they can get started on a small stake by putting up their shares in the bank as collateral for low-interest loans from bigger banks. Less affluent organizers sell stock to the public. Often investors are let in only after they pledge to deposit $500 or $1,000 in the bank for every $100 worth of stock they...
...French interests in neighboring, neutralist Cambodia total $50 million, chiefly in rubber plantations that provide jobs for 20,000 and bring in $15 million a year in foreign currency. But it is in fertile, war-torn South Viet Nam that France has its strongest hold and greatest stake: about $320 million in investments...
...seems to enjoy it all immensely is old John Diefenbaker, the ex-Prime Minister who suffered the same wasp-stinging from Pearson and now leads the Conservative opposition. When Diefenbaker was under attack, there were major issues at stake such as Canada's nuclear commitment to the U.S. Now the rough and tumble in the House of Commons often sounds more like a schoolyard squabble. Diefenbaker makes the most of it to be devil Pearson and ridicule him before the splinter parties on which he depends for support...