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Page 60
... investors that scores of dividend - paying investments were yielding 15 per cent interest on their market prices . Bank vaults were stored with investors ' money , left there for safety and earning no interest . The dice were loaded ...
... investors that scores of dividend - paying investments were yielding 15 per cent interest on their market prices . Bank vaults were stored with investors ' money , left there for safety and earning no interest . The dice were loaded ...
Page 76
... investors had money to gamble . Melbourne investors envied the fortunes won by Adelaide and Sydney investors who had bought shares in small Western Aus- tralian gold mines before the gold boom . They had watched the Western Australian ...
... investors had money to gamble . Melbourne investors envied the fortunes won by Adelaide and Sydney investors who had bought shares in small Western Aus- tralian gold mines before the gold boom . They had watched the Western Australian ...
Page 162
... invested in the mines of the field . This is clear once the mask of paid up capital is torn away . On a careful reckoning , investors and banks subscribed about £ 1,600,000 to all the Lyell companies in the decade 1893-1903 . About a ...
... invested in the mines of the field . This is clear once the mask of paid up capital is torn away . On a careful reckoning , investors and banks subscribed about £ 1,600,000 to all the Lyell companies in the decade 1893-1903 . About a ...
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