The hotel took three years of planning by this group and stock subscriptions were obtained from more than 200 local citizens.

The total cost was approximately $1.25 million, of which the state contributed nearly half through stock subscriptions and bonds.

In lieu of direct aid, railroads sought stock subscriptions from private citizens directly.

This was later changed when the citizens of Raleigh did not care to make the venture of a stock subscription to secure the railroad.

Funds from the company's stock subscriptions and loans from local banks kept the company afloat during the Panic of 1873.

Cass County approved a large stock subscription for the Pacific Railroad Company.

During the 1890s, the Utah Sugar Company was in financial distress, partly because stockholders were not making their stock subscription payments.

This was not met well and ultimately, the solution came in the form of annual fees and turning the Exchange into a Stock Subscription room.

In fact, even the most mundane company can have an IPO, and the first IPOs were held in the 1790s (they were called stock subscriptions at the time).

He persuaded many of them to help clear and grade land for the line and accept company stock as payment, and succeeded in selling stock subscriptions to people in the same area.

Slow stock subscriptions delayed surveying until June 1875, when a line was located between Xenia and the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad (M&C, later a B&O line) west of Norwood.

As Mr. Payton made clear in one of his ads, it would pursue the twin goals of profit and justice: "The books of the Afro-American Realty Co. are now open for stock subscription.

Mutual companies became attractive vehicles in the nascent insurance industry because they required little working capital, but a Massachusetts state law required an initial stock subscription of $100,000 for insurance companies, so Rice encouraged 31 investors to purchase stock in the new venture.