Word: buys
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...financially productive to any great degree," said Mr. Clark. "You men are expending various amounts on increasing your own productive ability. There are very few of you who can invest freely in bonds to a great extent, for most of you are only in a position to buy bonds either from your savings from allowances or by borrowing on banks, or by selling securities in order to obtain the required funds. Neither of the two latter ways of buying bonds will do the Government much good for in both systems you will be contending with...
...offering our services--a practically self-appointed committee--advocating the sale of Liberty Bonds, yet there is no more reason for our being here than for any or all of you men out at Cambridge doing the same thing. All of the people of this nation must volunteer to buy the bonds and promote the sale of them to others...
...tell you to buy bonds? Because the country must obtain the money in order to carry on the war. The bonds are issued faster than the savings of the nation are accumulated, and that means that we must collect all the funds possible in the form of bonds in order that we may not have to extend our credit further than is absolutely necessary...
...Government is asking us for another war loan. College men should not only be ready to buy Liberty Bonds, but to encourage buying on the part of everyone whose income will more than provide the necessaries of life. Everyone who can spare any money without depriving himself of something which is absolutely necessary for health, strength and usefulness should turn it over to the Government...
Entirely apart from the needs of the Government, it is a wise thing for the individual to buy Liberty Bonds instead of things which he does not now need, however much he may desire them. In the first place, if one intends to buy a luxury, now is a poor time to buy it, because prices are inflated and one will not get very much for one's money. The same money, if one will save it, will buy more after the war is over and prices have returned to a normal level. A Liberty Bond is as good...