Public Companies from the Cradle to the Grave, Or, How Promoters Prey on the People1883 - 104 páginas |
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Página vii
... present 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 ...
... present 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 viii
... present Aspects page 74 XII . - RAILWAYS , BANKS , INSURANCE AND SUNDRY ASSOCIATIONS . Early days of Railway enterprises , initial expenditure and waste - Their Capital - Bank of England and other Joint - Stock Banks - Banking Dividends ...
... present Aspects page 74 XII . - RAILWAYS , BANKS , INSURANCE AND SUNDRY ASSOCIATIONS . Early days of Railway enterprises , initial expenditure and waste - Their Capital - Bank of England and other Joint - Stock Banks - Banking Dividends ...
Página 1
... present aspects . There can be no question that the commercial 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 ...
... present aspects . There can be no question that the commercial 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 ...
Página 3
... present it is noteworthy that many of our formerly most prosperous shipping firms , since they have been turned into limited companies , have failed to exhibit a continuance of their previous prosperity . Perhaps this state of things is ...
... present it is noteworthy that many of our formerly most prosperous shipping firms , since they have been turned into limited companies , have failed to exhibit a continuance of their previous prosperity . Perhaps this state of things is ...
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... present day . So But it was reserved for the nineteenth century to develope the idea embodied in joint - stock trading , the true motive of which simply is the uniting of many small sums , belong- ing to individuals , into one large ...
... present day . So But it was reserved for the nineteenth century to develope the idea embodied in joint - stock trading , the true motive of which simply is the uniting of many small sums , belong- ing to individuals , into one large ...
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.