It is a list of the various investments in which Mr. Jasper Vermont placed the wealth he had so fraudulently amassed.
As an inducement to Dalky to agree with us to take this trip, we can offer him many fine investments at Buenos Aires--investments which promise the financier a return of a thousand per cent in six months' time.
All investments of capital which are from their nature permanent, require time for the development of their effects, and may, as regards many of their immediate results, prove rather injurious than beneficial.
The investments are unfortunately and disproportionately small.
In 1865 he visited Colorado and madeinvestments there.
Hersey and some Massachusetts men, who furnished all the money needed to buy pine land or make any other investments deemed advisable.
The increase in value on his investments made him a wealthy man.
His diversions are innocent, turning largely to investments in food and drink, a tendency born, I suppose, of long privations in the Arctic.
The miner, who had been talking with Colonel Snow about the value of Alaska mining investments in various districts, heard his name mentioned and turned with a smile.
He has a large slice of the bank's stock, and he's known to have good investments outside.
Archæology was new to Hilbrough, and deductive profits so large from inductive investments so small always seemed to the financier to indicate bad security.
Sidenote: Property Holdings] As to Italian savings and investments in the same city, Mr. Gino C.
The less productive places where investments were made in the old province are now abandoned, and labor and capital emigrate to the new.
Have we had to make anyinvestments for clients of late?
Don't tell anybody where your investments are, and lock up the papers, Checkley.
Now, all her life, she had been accustomed to talk of shares and stocks and investments and fluctuations and operations and buying in and selling out.
I have no client named Edmund Gray: I know no one of the name: I never received any money from the transfers: these investments are stolen.
Defn: Possessing property; holding real estate, or otherinvestments of money.
But at least the old man reminded them that there were better investments than corner-lots, and that even mortgages with waivers in them will be brought into judgment.
The sugar plantations yielded great profits, but they also required big investmentsof money and labor.
In regard to the return which their investments bring them also, they have, on the whole, proved far less fortunate.
American foreign investments are, in a large measure, tributary to great concerns located in the United States, which have their agents in foreign countries looking after their local interests.
In making investments the first and main thing to be studied is safety.
Banks discount paper for their depositors--and simply term the operation discounting; but when they go outside of their line of depositors in making investments in time paper they call it buying paper.
The total investments of British capital in foreign countries (in loans, railways, manufacturing syndicates, etc.
Its managers are as a rule intelligent men, competent to make safeinvestments in solid securities.
Villages with less than a dozen houses are often the sites of investment companies doing business under pretentious names and offering mortgage investments at interest rates which by the local conditions are impossible.
A portion of the loans of many banks consists of investments in solid bonds, but the bulk of the loans of banks is made on commercial paper.
All my late investments have been losses--and now comes this fire to wipe out over one hundred thousand dollars of my property.
Wall Street tempted him, and his ventures at first returned him fair margins, but his later investments were unsuccessful.
Actually these societies so far practically admit woman's rights as to offer to the ladies the same desirable investments they offer to the sterner sex.
By their merits as investments alone must Freehold Land Societies stand or fall.
As Mr. Cobden aptly remarked, half the money annually spent in gin would give the people the entire county representation, and thus also provide desirable investments for the money that you are morally bound to lay by against a rainy day.
They will give you all that you require--desirable investments for your savings--habits of economy and political influence.
What the savings banks are we have already seen; yet, actually, till the Freehold Land Movement originated, these were the only investments within the reach of the working man.
The building of the Temple at Kirtland, and the investments in lots and in business enterprises there showed that a permanent settlement in Ohio was then decided on.
Senator Stewart and other Nevada politicians made heavy investments in Utah mines; litigation multiplied as to mining titles, and Judge McKean did not rule to suit Utah .
Do you think they're going to intrust their investments to a firm headed by a two-hundred-dollar-a-month man?
In the meantime I am directing my investments as wisely as I can.
Their investments in stocks, on which they obtained a uniform rate of interest of about seven per cent.
He would realize all his investments and get away.
The investmentswere made by Gerald himself, and if, in the fluctuations of the market, the property becomes less valuable, we are not responsible.
With his already large investments in the new country, the building of the railroad would tax Worth's resources to the very limit and the failure of the Company's project would mean for him financial ruin.
Bell foreseeing that the Army was to be no longer a place for a quiet gentleman with business tastes, resigned his commission, to remain with his well-placed investments in St. Louis.
In other words, aside from their fixed investments in our stocks, the foreigners are continually speculating in them and continually changing their position as buyers and sellers.
Gold imports, on the other hand, are always a stimulating factor and are good live stock market ammunition as well as a constructive argument regarding the price of investments in general.
Knowledge of the location of American investments in Europe is thus a business asset of the greatest importance, and records are carefully kept.
Quiet conditions may result in long periods when investments of this kind are left undisturbed, but even then, the constant remitting and renewing of drafts originates a good deal of exchange market activity.
So long as the capital sunk in the other investments produces nothing, that is?
By putting what money there is in the bank into Consols, and adding the interest on the few investments that are paying anything at all, the total income of the estate comes to exactly one hundred and fifty a year," said Pip.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "investments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
