Word: investors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necessity for rebuilding Japanese cities has tended to impart strength to material prices, and to stave off prospects for lower prices here for another year. In consequence, American builders are now going ahead again, instead of waiting for lower costs. Even the conservative investor is not so inclined to hesitate over present expensive construction, after realizing the prospective Japanese demand for building materials...
...legitimate brokerage firm acts as an agent for public customers in the purchase and sale of securities. It also obtains credit for such customers, thus enabling them to buy "on margin." If, for example, an investor buys through a brokerage house 100 shares of U. S. Steel stock at $100 per share, he can either pay the purchase price of $10,000, or he can deposit with the broker $2,000, say, as "margin" and let the broker obtain the remaining $8,000 for him. This the broker does by paying the seller the $10,000 due, and then borrowing...
...indications may be given which are in part accountable. For a successful musical piece to be given it is necessary to have la composer, an orchestra and an audience; and so, in a sense of allegory, in flying it is equally necessary. The composer is the capitalist or investor who provides the financial sinews; the orchestra is that body of aviation which provides the machines to fly and the pilots and crew to fly them and man them, and the audience is the flying public at large who commit themselves or their freight to the air. Unfortunately, in aviation, neither...
...lease is an unfailing road to wealth. Some persons even seem to believe that an oil geologist belongs in this same category. Few persons who have not had personal experience in the oil business are aware of the pitfalls in the path of a would-be investor, or of the difficulties and dangers that must he surmounted before arriving at the goal of accrued dividends. The object of this brief paper is to advise any young man who has the oil fever to stop and calmly consider whether he will not be wiser in keeping his feet on the solid...
...obtain the commodities which they so greatly need, but for which they are not able to make immediate payment, involves a great deal of risk and delay in receiving payment for these loans. A corporation of this kind will necessarily have to use public funds, as the private investor wishes quicker and more certain returns for his money. At present, the people of Europe do not possess the means with which to buy our surplus, and, unless some corporation of this kind is formed, they will not be able to do so for a long time to come...