Public Companies from the Cradle to the Grave, Or, How Promoters Prey on the People1883 - 104 páginas |
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Página iv
... asking the public to subscribe to worthless ventures as bonâ fide INVESTMENTS , and to promote bogus schemes , intended mainly to transfer cash from the pockets of shareholders into those of promoters . If only a few solitary examples ...
... asking the public to subscribe to worthless ventures as bonâ fide INVESTMENTS , and to promote bogus schemes , intended mainly to transfer cash from the pockets of shareholders into those of promoters . If only a few solitary examples ...
Página 3
... asked to become sharers in its prosperity . It is , as a rule , only when a man has the bulk of his means sunk in one venture and is dissatisfied with the return he is receiving that he talks about " introducing fresh capital to extend ...
... asked to become sharers in its prosperity . It is , as a rule , only when a man has the bulk of his means sunk in one venture and is dissatisfied with the return he is receiving that he talks about " introducing fresh capital to extend ...
Página 18
... asked in the most unblushing manner to hand over £ 50,000 or £ 100,000 . Probably , if this information were forthcoming , it would be found that a mere nominal sum was paid , or an amount not yet fixed , but contingent on the floating ...
... asked in the most unblushing manner to hand over £ 50,000 or £ 100,000 . Probably , if this information were forthcoming , it would be found that a mere nominal sum was paid , or an amount not yet fixed , but contingent on the floating ...
Página 27
... asked for , a clear profit of at least 20 per cent . , and even 50 per cent . and 100 per cent . in extreme cases , may be confidently depended upon . Side by side with this statement is quoted all the enterprises of their particular ...
... asked for , a clear profit of at least 20 per cent . , and even 50 per cent . and 100 per cent . in extreme cases , may be confidently depended upon . Side by side with this statement is quoted all the enterprises of their particular ...
Página 37
... asked to take was to subscribe to an issue of £ 60,000 in £ 10 bonds to bear eight per cent . , and the advantages of subscription were also to include : “ A bonus of £ 1 fully paid share for " each 10 bond subscribed for and allotted ...
... asked to take was to subscribe to an issue of £ 60,000 in £ 10 bonds to bear eight per cent . , and the advantages of subscription were also to include : “ A bonus of £ 1 fully paid share for " each 10 bond subscribed for and allotted ...
Términos y frases comunes
Acts of Parliament advertising allotment amount applied Arc Lamp British Brush Company Brush Electric Light Brush offshoot Callao cash and shares cent CHAPTER Colonial Companies Acts companies registered company's concern Confidence trick considered cost Crown 8vo directors district dividends dynamo-machines Edison Elec Electric Light Company Electric Sun endeavour favour formed funds gold guarantee Gulcher Hammond Indian Interested in sales investment investors Jablochkoff joint-stock banks joint-stock companies Joint-Stock Enterprise Lamp Lane-Fox Light & Power Light and Power limited liability limited liability companies liquidators London Maxim-Weston memorandum of association ment MYSORE DISTRICT names paid paid-up capital panies patents Pilsen-Joel post-free POWER COMPANY premium profits promoters prospectus proxies public companies purchase railway reefs schemes shareholders spectus Stock Exchange Storage subscribe success supply syndicate taken tion trading undertakings vendors ventures Western Electric winding WORD-PAINTING WYMAN & SONS Wynaad
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Página 37 - The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Página 6 - ... shall be deemed to be a company having a permanent paid-up, or nominal capital of fixed amount, divided into shares, also of fixed amount, or held and transferable as stock, or divided and held, partly in one way and partly in the other, and formed on the principle of having for its members the holders of shares in such capital, or the holders of such stock, and no other persons...
Página 22 - Whenever the Court is of opinion that it is just and equitable that the Company should be wound up.
Página 40 - Is. per Ib., the directors feel justified in stating they confidently believe the profits of this company will be more than sufficient to pay dividends of at least 50 per cent, on the nominal capital, and will exceed those of the company working the English patent, which, having only been formed a little over twelve months, has entered into a contract which will yield the return, by way of annual dividends, of a sum equal to the whole paid-up capital of the company of £34,000.
Página 101 - WE, the several persons whose names and addresses are subscribed, are desirous of being formed into a company, in pursuance of this memorandum of association, and we respectively agree to take the number of shares in the capital of the company set opposite our respective names.