Public Companies from the Cradle to the Grave, Or, How Promoters Prey on the People |
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Table of Brush offspring — The capital and sums received for Patents — Gleanings from Prospectuses of the Hammond and tributary companies , also of offshoots from the parent company - Present financial standing of the companies 65 1 !
Table of Brush offspring — The capital and sums received for Patents — Gleanings from Prospectuses of the Hammond and tributary companies , also of offshoots from the parent company - Present financial standing of the companies 65 1 !
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The earliest of these , -chiefly banks and mercantile trading corporations , —were incorporated by special Acts of Parliament , royal charters , or letters patent , and many of them were most extravagant schemes .
The earliest of these , -chiefly banks and mercantile trading corporations , —were incorporated by special Acts of Parliament , royal charters , or letters patent , and many of them were most extravagant schemes .
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The registration of companies is followed out on the same plan as the granting of patents . Anything can be patented if the fees are paid . No examination is made as to whether the idea is new or old ; those whose existing patents it ...
The registration of companies is followed out on the same plan as the granting of patents . Anything can be patented if the fees are paid . No examination is made as to whether the idea is new or old ; those whose existing patents it ...
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This was instanced not long ago , when , at a meeting of the Brush Light Company , the mismanagement of the directors was so patent to those present that a resolution was come to by a show of hands to appoint a committee of the ...
This was instanced not long ago , when , at a meeting of the Brush Light Company , the mismanagement of the directors was so patent to those present that a resolution was come to by a show of hands to appoint a committee of the ...
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If some new patent medicine or novel article of diet is to be turned into a company , the prospectus appears emblazoned with the opinions of all the unknown medical gentlemen on the Continent , with whole alphabets after their names .
If some new patent medicine or novel article of diet is to be turned into a company , the prospectus appears emblazoned with the opinions of all the unknown medical gentlemen on the Continent , with whole alphabets after their names .
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Acts advantages allotment already amount appear applied asked associations banks become British brought Brush Electric Light called carried cash cent CHAPTER concern considered cost directors district dividends Electric Light Company enterprises existence expenses field floated Foreign formed funds given giving gold guarantee hands Indian interest investment issued joint-stock companies known Lamp leading less liability Light and Power Limited liquidators London matter means meeting ment mines names never nominal capital object offices operations paid paid-up panies patents perhaps persons position Power Co present profits promoters prospectus purchase question railway reason referred registered schemes shareholders shares started Stock Storage subscribe success supply syndicate taken things tion trading turned undertakings vendors whole winding
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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.