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Word: investment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...character, slips gently from the tapering hand of Greta Garbo, flung sideways on a sofa which she does not occupy alone. Like Author Arlen and unlike Will H. Hays, Miss Garbo and John Gilbert are among the most conspicuous romanticists of this epoch. Each knows how to invest emotions with the glamor dear to reveries although not found in life. Director Clarence Brown has made the most of tremendous box-office possibilities by sticking closely to the original novel. Best shot: Greta Garbo driving an Hispano-Suiza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...investor in an Investment Trust, in effect, turns his money over to a group of experts who have the advantage of a thorough market knowledge and of handling sums ranging from three to five hundred million dollars. Such an investor is letting men like Simon William Straus, the Seligmans, Arthur Cutten, Fred Fisher, Walter Chrysler, invest his money for him. Investors in U. S. investment trusts usually do not know exactly where their 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Investment Trusts | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

Concluding furiously, Editor Carli hinted that it might be well to exclude tourists from Italy, and gloried in the fact that this would mean the closing of thousands of Italian hotels. "So much the better! Then our hotel keepers would invest their capital in Il Duce's land reclamation project, in our colonies, in scientific research, industries, and armaments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Fat Tourists Smacked | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...Flight Into Egypt), or to establish inevitable repentance (Hast Thou Considered My Servant Job?) "No idea was too grandiose-as the reader will see-for me to try and invest it in this strange discipline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Concentrated Extract | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

There are two plans under consideration for the hangar itself. First, to use all the money in constructing a large commercial hangar which could be rented as a single unit. Second, to use part of the funds to build a small hangar for club use primarily, and to invest the remainder to serve as a permanent endowment fund which would allow the club to increase its operations and to lower its flying rates. The question can not be definitely decided until the plan for the Boston airport is agreed upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRIVE FOR HANGAR STARTED BY FLIERS | 10/31/1928 | See Source »

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