Public Companies from the Cradle to the Grave, Or, How Promoters Prey on the People1883 - 104 páginas |
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... existence , great scope is given to wily imaginations to bring out something very striking . Gene- rally it is found that common - place titles belong to bonâ- fide companies , with tangible objects , whilst the high- sounding names are ...
... existence , great scope is given to wily imaginations to bring out something very striking . Gene- rally it is found that common - place titles belong to bonâ- fide companies , with tangible objects , whilst the high- sounding names are ...
Página 27
... existence of a true mer- cantile company hinges on the amounts of profits to be earned , so in the bogus schemes is this part of the pro- spectus made exceedingly palatable . There is absolutely no limit to the profits of some of these ...
... existence of a true mer- cantile company hinges on the amounts of profits to be earned , so in the bogus schemes is this part of the pro- spectus made exceedingly palatable . There is absolutely no limit to the profits of some of these ...
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... existence upon his powers of imagination . The measure of his success is estimated by the extent to which he can impress upon others the reality and natural- ness of what is artificial , or enhance the value of what is already known and ...
... existence upon his powers of imagination . The measure of his success is estimated by the extent to which he can impress upon others the reality and natural- ness of what is artificial , or enhance the value of what is already known and ...
Página 34
... existence , save on paper . Registration , consisting only of forms easily complied with , enabled this adventurer to amass an amount of public money for his own purposes , and he was just on the eve of starting for Spain with the booty ...
... existence , save on paper . Registration , consisting only of forms easily complied with , enabled this adventurer to amass an amount of public money for his own purposes , and he was just on the eve of starting for Spain with the booty ...
Página 39
... existence little was heard of it in business circles . Suddenly , how- ever , by dint of powerful advertising , and other manipula- tions best known to the initiated , an excitement was got up in the shares early in 1881 , and on the ...
... existence little was heard of it in business circles . Suddenly , how- ever , by dint of powerful advertising , and other manipula- tions best known to the initiated , an excitement was got up in the shares early in 1881 , and on the ...
Términos y frases comunes
Acts of Parliament advertising allotment amount applied Arc Lamp British Brush Electric Light Brush offshoot 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 parent company 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.