Word: investments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mostly, the investments were made years ago. Since the war new private capital has fought shy of Latin America. By putting up bars to payment of interest and principal, Latinos have done much to frighten new private U.S. capital away.† Last month Brazil reimposed a 5% tax on exported profits, and Argentina allows no dollars to leave unless matched by newly invested dollars. In every republic except Venezuela remittances are subject to costly exchange-control delays. In Socialist-run Venezuela, which currently offers the best Latin American climate for new private enterprise, U.S. oil companies plan to invest...
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Last week, homeward bound with a headful of Americana, busy Barbara Ward was a little disturbed by some U.S. attitudes. Much of the U.S., she said, seemed to be in a mood to let the rest of the world go by. She hoped, nevertheless, that the U.S. would invest thought, action and $10 billion or so a year in world reconstruction. "It used to be sterling that made the world go round," she said. "Today it's dollars. The U.S. could save the world economically, but I'm not sure you're going...
...victims are stupid, wealthy women. His difficult task is to woo them, marry them, pry their money loose, murder them, dispose of the corpses, and invest his take. He is exceedingly hardworking, skillful and, in his way, ethical at his job; he takes the least possible emotional advantage of his victims, and he is careful to kill them painlessly...
...richer lode will be tapped if private U.S. capital can be lured back into Mexico. Last fortnight at Monterrey, Treasury Minister Ramon Beteta urged U.S. bankers to invest in Mexican Government bonds-"as safe and secure as any in the world." The bankers listened respectfully. But U.S. capital, once grievously burned by expropriation in Mexico, still fears the heat from the Revolution's embers...