Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...money is being used (English investment trusts are more considerate); they are simply trusting the Trust. Perhaps the best analogy to an Investment Trust would be a hypothetical bank that had no restrictions on what it could do with the depositors' money. Funds invested in Investment Trusts may well yield 10% or more, may also yield nothing at all. Prior to 1925 there were only 29 U. S. investment trusts; at present there are some...
These and many more beliefs, added, divided, might yield an intellectual mean. That mean will be the intellectual situation of the world...
Experienced Prince Pierre de Polignac temporized, seemed to yield. By all means let there be a commission! Affably His Highness named three each of the resigned National and Communal councilmen to compose the Commission. Also the smart son-in-law had a proclamation from Prince Louis to read-a paternal, gently reproving proclamation...
...Oscar, however, never, entered into the discussions of a group of men who gathered in a downtown bank in New York and spent the day deliberating. They were realtors, and they talked of leases and rents, and how many stories an office building must rise in order to yield income proportionate to the value of a property in terms of Fifth Avenue frontage. In the end, they nodded in agreement on a real estate dicker which will wipe out the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, a famed Manhattan landmark, a tradition of princesses and kings, Peacock Alley, memories of the Bradley-Martin...
...made however a stir in sections of Manhattan where business is the subject of smart chatter. In the smart restaurants of lower Park Avenue, headwaiters consulted patrons differentially but earnestly. There were two reasons why they did so: Headwaiters yield only to speakeasy owners as shrewd investors; many a headwaiter was acquainted with the young and impressive Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. who was named to head the board of directors of the Jenkins Television Corp...