Public Companies from the Cradle to the Grave, Or, How Promoters Prey on the People1883 - 104 páginas |
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... 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 , Capital and Reserves , and ...
... 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 , Capital and Reserves , and ...
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... railway com- panies , where many men are employed , everything is re- duced to system , and saving in time is effected by a great sub - division of labour . The employés , however , become mechanical in their movements , and where they ...
... railway com- panies , where many men are employed , everything is re- duced to system , and saving in time is effected by a great sub - division of labour . The employés , however , become mechanical in their movements , and where they ...
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... railway and insurance companies . In perusing these statutes , one cannot fail to be impressed with the intricate manner in which they are prepared , combining a great grasp of first principles , with much attention to details ; but ...
... railway and insurance companies . In perusing these statutes , one cannot fail to be impressed with the intricate manner in which they are prepared , combining a great grasp of first principles , with much attention to details ; but ...
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... repealed or amended , no matter though some individual members of the House of Commons may say , as they affirmed of the Metropolitan Railway Ventilation Act , that it was " smuggled through A Chapter of Definitions . 9.
... repealed or amended , no matter though some individual members of the House of Commons may say , as they affirmed of the Metropolitan Railway Ventilation Act , that it was " smuggled through A Chapter of Definitions . 9.
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Jaycee (pseud.) Railway Ventilation Act , that it was " smuggled through committee . " Although Acts of Parliament do not always accomplish their purposes , whether in assisting or pre- venting certain desirable or undesirable objects ...
Jaycee (pseud.) Railway Ventilation Act , that it was " smuggled through committee . " Although Acts of Parliament do not always accomplish their purposes , whether in assisting or pre- venting certain desirable or undesirable objects ...
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.