Public Companies from the Cradle to the Grave, Or, How Promoters Prey on the People1883 - 104 páginas |
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Página viii
... sheets - Liquidators ' Administration- These reforms meant to restrict indiscriminate promoting , but would be welcomed by sound concerns 100 PUBLIC COMPANIES . CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY AND HISTORICAL . " viii Public Companies .
... sheets - Liquidators ' Administration- These reforms meant to restrict indiscriminate promoting , but would be welcomed by sound concerns 100 PUBLIC COMPANIES . CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY AND HISTORICAL . " viii Public Companies .
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... concerns . Each has its advantages ; and while , as a rule , businesses within the range of the means of a single capitalist will prove more remunerative than the same line of employ- ment when taken up by a public company ; on the ...
... concerns . Each has its advantages ; and while , as a rule , businesses within the range of the means of a single capitalist will prove more remunerative than the same line of employ- ment when taken up by a public company ; on the ...
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... concern it is generally kept so , and the public are seldom 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 ...
... concern it is generally kept so , and the public are seldom 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 ...
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... concerned , until he makes a careful acquaintance with the propagation , short lives , lingering and at last miserable deaths of the greater number of those schemes which are foisted on the public at the rate of about three every ...
... concerned , until he makes a careful acquaintance with the propagation , short lives , lingering and at last miserable deaths of the greater number of those schemes which are foisted on the public at the rate of about three every ...
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... concern being mainly with what is laid before him . WRECKERS we would rather not define , as they were not premeditated in the Act of Parliament , but have attached themselves to its operations as a kind of fungus growth . They may be ...
... concern being mainly with what is laid before him . WRECKERS we would rather not define , as they were not premeditated in the Act of Parliament , but have attached themselves to its operations as a kind of fungus growth . They may be ...
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.