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Example sentences for "controlling interest"

  • After securing a controlling interest as desired, he began to develop the iron industries along the line, which of course soon gave the road business.

  • When the bank was discontinued it was found that he had not only secured a controlling interest in the stock, but had gained possession of the bank building itself.

  • He at once set about to buy a controlling interest in the stock.

  • Mr. Lawson boomed the stock on the basis of a report, totally destitute of truth, that an English syndicate was about to purchase a controlling interest in the company.

  • The bulk of the new money thus to be received by the Fidelity Trust Company is to be used by it in the acquisition of a controlling interest in the entire capital stock of the Prudential Insurance Company.

  • From this people generally came to think that he was nearly the sole owner of all, or at least personally owned a controlling interest in the whole group.

  • Mind you, I do not say you own all this, but that you exercise a controlling interest.

  • In short, you exercise a controlling interest in such a proportion of the total investments of the United States, as to set the pace for all the rest.

  • Then when we went in to buy, you couldn't get a controlling interest at any price, and all we can make out is that a big block of it is held off the market.

  • California, and in addition the Southern Pacific Company held a controlling interest in the Associated Oil Company, also a large producer.

  • In the second place, the Central Pacific gave value to bonds which it held by a guaranty, and used them to buy a controlling interest in California Pacific stock.


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