Word: investment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this duty the means must be available. If you are willing to invest it, the government . . . will demand from you full powers to act with effectiveness and speed. It will ask them from you for a period of six months, hoping that by the end of that term order will have been restored in the state, hope rediscovered in Algeria and union remade in the nation...
What the industry has done is survey the field to discover what the U.S. would want in an American-built small car-just in case. Findings: the average U.S. auto buyer is ready to invest in a U.S. small car, but he is unwilling to give up the accustomed miracles of Detroit engineering. He wants automatic transmission, power steering, smooth, American-type riding qualities, plenty of gadgets, loads of interior and luggage space and lots of horsepower. In effect, the desire is for everything the U.S. car already is, only 10 ft. shorter, and somehow a lot cheaper...
...into new equipment and exploration this year, up $14 million from 1957. About 65% will be spent at home, though Socony gets only 40% of its earnings in U.S. Company expects free-world consumption of oil to increase by at least 50% within decade and industry will have to invest $115 billion to meet...
...becoming almost a sin to accept it. U.S. Government economic-aid programs are frequently considered politically ineffective, and private Western capital is steadily leaving the Middle East, except for oil companies, whose returns are great enough to justify putting up with the problems. Even Middle Easterners with money to invest generally salt it away abroad, or put it in quick-profit, nonproductive ventures. Only the Russians, who love a vacuum, have been willing to step in with easy credit and technical...
Bikes & Business. MIDEC's main function, says Rykens, will be to bring together Arab businessmen with capital to invest and Western outfits with the necessary know-how who will be willing to accept a minority interest. Tentatively. Rykens has set a ceiling of 40% for Western financial participation. MIDEC will concentrate initially on small industrial enterprises such as paper mills, breweries, fertilizer, bicycle, textile and chemical plants. However much Arabs distrust the West, Rykens thinks they still respect Western technological ability enough to make the plan work...