Word: investment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their anticipations is the fact that at the end of the quarter which showed this 110% increase in earnings, stock prices were unsteady and only 33% up from the same date a year ago. A further tip-off came from several companies' sharply curtailed budgets for capital investment in new plants. General Motors will invest $10,000,000 for expansion, a little more for improvement, in 1939 against $60,000,000 for expansion and improvement in 1937. U. S. Steel will invest $25,000,000 against $67,000,000 in "the major depression year...
...received, by telephone, telegraph and mail from all over the land, 150 inquiries. Some of the inquirers: politicians, butchers, lawyers, realtors, a junk dealer. Most appeared to be merely window-shoppers, but some asked whether they could swap unspecified possessions for a college; one man was prepared to invest...
When Laundryman Marshall decided to invest some of his profits in a professional football team (Boston Redskins) six years ago, he brought many innovations into the twelve-year-old National Football League. It was his idea to divide the league into two divisions, have a post-season play-off for the championship. He introduced red satin trousers for his players, entertainment at intermission. But Bostonians were apathetic to Showman Marshall's ideas. After dropping $85,000 there, he transplanted his Redskins in Washington last year...
Along with Keyes D. Metcalf, Director of the University Library and J. W. Lowes '19, Financial Vice-President, Bock has promulgated a plan by which the University will immediately invest $100 for books in Stillman. This will be the start of a small library which will annually be increased by purchasing books to the value of about $50. The selection of the books will be in the hands of a committee of three students appointed by the President of the Student Council...
...business man willing to invest in a young man with ideas, energy, and ambition. A forestry graduate, technically trained, with experience in industry, office work, selling, well acquainted with hard work, I am 29, married, have two small boys. Recently re-leased from the technical department of a rayon pulp mill closed due to the effect of the Japanese-Chinese war on pulp production, I am ready and able to go anywhere that opportunity shows itself. My special interest: the problem of waste in industry...