Companies

Examples

• Such companies, therefore, commonly draw to themselves much greater stocks, than any private copartnery can boast of. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• On the 22d Colonel Rodney Mason surrendered Clarksville with six companies of his regiment. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• However, private individuals and companies continued to invent and improve, and the civil war in America revolutionised the systems of warfare and its weapons. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The Chartered Gas Company, established by Mr. Winsor's persevering efforts, has served as the guiding star to all other gas companies in the world. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Rival companies have sprung up, using slightly different varieties of apparatus. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Mark for troops on foot by companies, like this, see? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• In the patents of Sir Waiter Raleigh, to the London and Plymouth companies, to the council of Plymouth, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Other great companies in different parts of the country soon followed with the same general system. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Such companies, whether regulated or joint-stock, sometimes have, and sometimes have not, exclusive privileges. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The usual corporation spirit, wherever the law does not restrain it, prevails in all regulated companies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But, in compensation, there have been several joint-stock companies which have failed, and which he has omitted. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• When within a square of the plaza this small command, ten companies in all, was brought to a halt. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They proved of use, and the same man started a service among the express companies. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In requiring frequent and regular repayments from all their customers, the banking companies of Scotland had probably this advantage in view. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Edison says: When I shut down, the insurance companies cancelled my insurance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He has been misinformed with regard to the history of two or three of them, which were not joint-stock companies and have not failed. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• On the first introduction of gas-light, the companies who supplied it charged a fixed sum for each burner of a given size. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• They captured two companies of dragoons, commanded by Captains Thornton and Hardee. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He also visited the offices of the large public service and insurance companies. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But the constitution of joint-stock companies renders them in general, more tenacious of established rules than any private copartnery. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Inventions become merged into systems, and systems become swallowed up by companies. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• One time there was to be a convention of the managers of Edison illuminating companies at Chicago. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Colonel Twiggs, with seven companies of dragoons and a battery of light artillery, moved on the 8th. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Such gas meters are furnished by the companies, and can be read easily. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Numerous attempts to buy from the United States the right to utilize some of this apparently wasted energy have been made by various commercial companies. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The following summary of machines made by the leading companies from 1853 to 1876 illustrates the early growth of this industry: Manufacturer. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In the equipments owned by such companies there are included 68,636 electric cars and 17,568 trailers and others, making a total of 86,204 of such vehicles. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• As I had no intention of offering to sell anything I was showing, and was pushing no companies, the whole exhibition was made for honor, and without any hope of profit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The two banks of Edinburgh are joint-stock companies, without any exclusive privilege. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He had recently built several canals on this property, and was at the head of a number of companies which were planning to intersect England with waterways. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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