The first major capitalist industries were coal mining, iron mining, and foreign trade because they all needed large investments, and thus joint-stock company organization.
In 1621, they secured a patent to the merchants and planters together for a voluntary joint-stock company in New England.
The law distinguishes two species and four varieties of civil societies, and as many commercial societies, from the simple partnership to the joint-stock company.
The advantages which the private undertaking conducted by the individual proprietor has hitherto exhibited over the joint-stock company, it must, in the nature of things, also have over the free associations.
But are the advantages of the individual undertaker over the joint-stock company really so great?
Adam Smith thought there were only four branches of enterprise which were fitted to be profitably conducted by a joint-stock company.
The great development in stock-exchange business in recent times is due chiefly to the sale of foreign and colonial bonds, and the remarkable growth and spread of joint-stock companies since the Joint-Stock Company Act of 1862.
To subscribe for, or purchase, shares in a stock company.
To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable
Mr. Gallatin was consulted and made a plan for a joint-stock company, to form a settlement by immigration from Geneva.
The expected immigration never came, but this scheme ended in an unforeseen way; Mr. Gallatin joined one or two of the originators of the plan in creating another joint-stock company, and his mind was long busied with its affairs.
We'll make a stock company--say a hundred thousand shares.
Now, I unterstood you to say that this new concern is a stock company.
In this house, in "May Blossom," De Wolf Hopper first appeared in a stock company, afterward going into musical comedy.
Palmer's Stock Company on the road in Sydney Grundy's play "The New Woman.
But I've got hold of something now that will help me to feed my stock company in New York.
He now had his own New York theater, a star of the first magnitude, and a stock company with a national reputation.
My dear friend," he said, "you forget that you are not the chairman of the board of directors of a joint-stock company.
He is, after all, the managing director, and if things turn out wrong he is held responsible exactly as if he were the director of a joint-stock company.
Shanghai harbour intended for the building of docks and quays, and the lease of the so-called Eastern Wharf, both these undertakings to be managed by a specially created joint-stock company.
Ehrenthal alluded to a great joint-stock company of landed proprietors which lent money on a first mortgage on estates.
If you were, instead, to buy a good mortgage at five per cent, you would pay four per cent to the Joint-stock Company, and one per cent.
The Bank of Japan was established as a joint-stock company in 1882.
In the beginning of the Meiji era Japan was practically without any manufacturing industries, as the term is understood in the Occident, and she had not so much as one joint-stock company.
In the previous year the Colonial Secretary had, it will be remembered, reluctantly professed sympathy with the objects of the organisation up to the point that it fell short of being a Joint-Stock Company.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stock company" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
