Word: investment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mortensen of the dairy department of Iowa State College. He addressed the American Institute of Co-operation at Chicago: "The individual who may be interested in cheese making is at present likely to become somewhat discouraged. The cheese industry of the United States can well afford to invest a fair sum of money in advertising its product. There is no other food product to be had in which nutritive value, wholesomeness and palatability are so well combined. It is unnatural that there should be only a limited effort of the manufacturers. Education and advertising should create a greater demand. Very...
Only last week, eight months after the resignation of Prince Eitel-Friedrich, was the Order of St. John moved to invest Prince Oscar as Grand Master, after an exhaustive investigation of his private life...
Alias the Deacon (Jean Hersholt). As in the play of the same name, the hero's occupation is fleecing the wicked rich to invest the righteous poor. An angel-faced cardsharp, he blandly deals his opponents four nines, a flush, a straight, a full house, only to stagger the crowd by slapping down a royal straight flush for his own account, thus taking the largest poker pot ever staked in that town. With the proceeds he raises a mortgage, facilitates a wedding, stores up treasure in Heaven. Then he ambles into a box car and shuffles off to other...
...providing for these loans authorized the United States Government to sell Liberty bonds to its own people, and to invest the proceeds of these bonds in the bonds of these foreign Governments.... What we allowed our associates to do, in effect, was to borrow money in our investment market, but since their credit was not as good as ours, to borrow on the credit of the United States rather than on their...
...because of our extraordinary size, population, and wealth in comparison with neighboring states, the strategic relation of the Caribbean lands to our own shores and the necessity of defending the Panama Canal. This paramount interest has no connection with the Monroe Doctrine. Other countries are free to invest in Central America, but we must see that the Republics do not give European powers a chance to intervene on account of misbehavior...