Public Companies from the Cradle to the Grave, Or, How Promoters Prey on the People1883 - 104 páginas |
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Página 53
... funds in other directions . Only at the last moment , while yet enough remained in the coffers to defray the ... fund could have been brought into existence . Instead of sales of part of their properties to new companies , as prophesied ...
... funds in other directions . Only at the last moment , while yet enough remained in the coffers to defray the ... fund could have been brought into existence . Instead of sales of part of their properties to new companies , as prophesied ...
Página 58
... funds and a lack of profitable business , they stand at a heavy discount . Many , by misleading pro- spectuses , got their shares subscribed for , and some , which at the time were much sought after , are now left to the tender mercies ...
... funds and a lack of profitable business , they stand at a heavy discount . Many , by misleading pro- spectuses , got their shares subscribed for , and some , which at the time were much sought after , are now left to the tender mercies ...
Página 70
... fund , also to the Hammond shares £ 2 . 10s . paid being quoted at between £ 19 and £ 20 , and the parent company's £ 10 shares not to be bought under £ 60 . This and the YORKSHIRE " BRUSH " prospectus revelled in the identical ...
... fund , also to the Hammond shares £ 2 . 10s . paid being quoted at between £ 19 and £ 20 , and the parent company's £ 10 shares not to be bought under £ 60 . This and the YORKSHIRE " BRUSH " prospectus revelled in the identical ...
Página 83
... funds for promoters and fees for directors was no doubt due to the assistance the mania received from such articles as the following , taken from a leading daily , and written in a style rendering it a fit accompaniment to any ...
... funds for promoters and fees for directors was no doubt due to the assistance the mania received from such articles as the following , taken from a leading daily , and written in a style rendering it a fit accompaniment to any ...
Página 87
... fund amounting to £ 38,000,000 , -total £ 128,000,000 . Until the failure of the CITY OF GLASGOW BANK , many of them were conducted on the principle of unlimited liability ; but the pecuniary commitment to which share- holders rendered ...
... fund amounting to £ 38,000,000 , -total £ 128,000,000 . Until the failure of the CITY OF GLASGOW BANK , many of them were conducted on the principle of unlimited liability ; but the pecuniary commitment to which share- holders rendered ...
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.