These stockholders get their dividends upon their capital stock and their share of "watered stock" and bonds, but do not participate in the profits of the dispatch business.
Tracy, had issued and put upon the New York money market nearly four million dollars' worth of "watered stock," and realized the cash for it before certain other parties were aware of what had been done.
When at last he had driven its owners into a corner, he calmly stepped in and bought up its control cheaply, and then turned out many millions of dollars of watered stock.
After having bribed legislatures to legalize his enormous issue of watered stock, what was Vanderbilt's next move?
Wherever competition promised to regulate rates by the application of the law of supply and demand, the pool was resorted to as the never-failing remedy to preserve dividends on watered stock.
The public concedes that liberal returns should be allowed to railroad companies on money actually invested, but it naturally objects to being taxed for the purpose of making dividends on watered stock.
When his crop shows signs of failure he cannot reorganise, issue a batch of watered stock, and unload his failure on the investing public.
When we got busy with that we had to buy sulphur and lime and no doubt had to pay prices that would give dividends on watered stock in a sulphur trust and a lime trust.
Another trembling representative of the above-mentioned palladium calls on a high financier and tells him that the farmers are complaining because the last issue of watered stock he unloaded on them had typhoid germs in it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "watered stock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
