Public Companies from the Cradle to the Grave, Or, How Promoters Prey on the People1883 - 104 páginas |
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Página vii
... position - List of companies floated 47 54 X. - ELECTRIC LIGHT UNDERTAKINGS.- I. THE BRUSH FAMILY . Table of Brush offspring - The capital and sums received for Patents - Gleanings from Prospectuses of the Hammond and tributary ...
... position - List of companies floated 47 54 X. - ELECTRIC LIGHT UNDERTAKINGS.- I. THE BRUSH FAMILY . Table of Brush offspring - The capital and sums received for Patents - Gleanings from Prospectuses of the Hammond and tributary ...
Página 1
... position of our country has been immensely furthered by this and the kindred Acts which have since become law , - gigantic undertakings have been launched , schemes pro- pounded , and industries created that would never have grown up if ...
... position of our country has been immensely furthered by this and the kindred Acts which have since become law , - gigantic undertakings have been launched , schemes pro- pounded , and industries created that would never have grown up if ...
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... positions will next be indicated . A difficulty has arisen in explaining these terms , so as to convey the clearest import of their actual meaning at the present time . Old - fashioned defini- tions of them would only mislead , as they ...
... positions will next be indicated . A difficulty has arisen in explaining these terms , so as to convey the clearest import of their actual meaning at the present time . Old - fashioned defini- tions of them would only mislead , as they ...
Página 8
... position is a lucrative one . He stipulates that the price of what he vends shall be paid in cash and shares ; and , as this presumes a buyer , a joint - stock company is provided to furnish this party to the transaction . He sells what ...
... position is a lucrative one . He stipulates that the price of what he vends shall be paid in cash and shares ; and , as this presumes a buyer , a joint - stock company is provided to furnish this party to the transaction . He sells what ...
Página 9
... position , usually with more grace than agility . He is called in when the com- pany has reached the closing stage of its career , and then supersedes the directors in the eye of the law , carrying on or settling affairs for the ...
... position , usually with more grace than agility . He is called in when the com- pany has reached the closing stage of its career , and then supersedes the directors in the eye of the law , carrying on or settling affairs for the ...
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
Pasajes populares
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.