CONTROLLING INTEREST • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Controlling interest

"Controlling interest" Quotes from Famous Books

... approached the quarries with an interested eye. Among his many irons in the fire he had acquired part ownership in another quarry to the westward, like this bordering the towpath of the canal. Bowers held the controlling interest, though neither his name nor Shelby's figured prominently in its management. They called it the Eureka ...

— The Henchman • Mark Lee Luther

... the motor-car, and Bleakridge House with its ten bedrooms, and another house at Llandudno, and a controlling interest in Etches, Limited, that brought them in seven or eight thousand a year. They were a pretty tidy example of what the Five Towns can do when it tries ...

— The Grim Smile of the Five Towns • Arnold Bennett

... paying property if properly worked, and should you at any time wish to take the regular army and such other help as you may need and re-capture it from our red brothers, I would be glad to give you a controlling interest in it. ...

— Remarks • Bill Nye

... the controlling interest in a transcontinental line of railroad vocation enough? To say nothing of coal, copper and iron mines, a steel mill or two and a fleet ...

— Paradise Garden - The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment • George Gibbs

... they perish. Great fish in the crowded pond feed upon the smaller. Individual manufacturers are absorbed by the great combinations called trusts. The stockholders of a railroad are absorbed by those who have large and controlling interest. But the railroad is itself absorbed by another yet greater corporation, and this again by a great combine that eliminates the influence of all but the chief control, and tends to a complete centralization ...

— Usury - A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View • Calvin Elliott