*** 150 Provost Company

*** 150 Provost Company

By 1611, shareholders in the East India Company were earning an almost 150 % return on their investment.

After the Dutch East India Company was founded in 1602, the Dutch unsuccessfully attacked Macau several times, culminating in a full scale invasion attempt in 1622, when 800 attackers were successfully repelled by 150 Macanese and Portuguese defenders.

To this should be added the debts of the United East India Company and its sister, the WIC, and the five Dutch Admiralties for a total of about 150 million guilders.

At its peak, the Bean Lumber Company was producing more than 150 million board feet of pine lumber and 120 million board feet of treated lumber annually, making it one of the largest distributors of southern pine in the United States.

The Gas City Land Company was founded on March 21, 1892 and the town of about 150 people changed its name to Gas City a few days later.

It was laid out to provide for a city of 150, 000 people by the Kanopolis Land Company.

The company's subsidiary, Frontier Supply Company, provided electricity by utilizing a used $ 1, 150. 00 generator acquired in Utah.

The docks form part of the Port of Bristol and were operated by the Port of Bristol Authority, part of Bristol City Council, until 1991 when the council granted a 150 year lease to the Bristol Port Company.

It operated there from October 1895 until 1903, when it was bought by the Chicago House Wrecking Company for $ 8, 150. 00.

Company executives were expecting to receive upwards of $ 150 million for the real estate, but ended up receiving $ 77 million when the bare property ( which cost $ 20 million to clear ) was sold to a development corporation in 2006.

The New Zealand Company and particularly his brother, Edward Gibbon, had made extravagant promises to the settlers about the availability of land, offering one acre ( 4, 000 m² ) of urban land, fifty acres ( 200, 000 m² ), of suburban land and 150 acres ( 600, 000 m² ) of rural land to each settler family.

By 1892 it emerged that 150 French deputies had been bribed into voting for the allocation of financial aid to the Panama Canal Company, and in February 1893 de Lesseps, his son Charles ( born 1849 ), and a number of others faced trial and were found guilty.

The Liebig Extract of Meat Company ( Lemco ) was established on 4 December 1865 in London with a capital of £ 150, 000.

The partnership consists of an $ 150 million fund managed by Chadwick Saylor & Company with numerous investors.

On 27 April, ' B ' Company's base on the hilltop village of Plamam Mapu, consisting of Company Headquarters, a mortar section, and one weak platoon of young soldiers was attacked by force of 150 Indonesians supported by rocket launchers, mortars, rifle grenades, and machine guns from the surrounding hills.

The three men created the Los Angeles City Water Company, which violated many of the provisions of its lease on the Los Angeles River, including secretly tunneling under the river to extract 150 times as much water as the lease allowed.

In 2011, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, which has had " one of the longest and most fruitful associations with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company of any American museum ", struck an agreement with the Cunningham Foundation to acquire as many as 150 of the art objects that have been central to the company ’ s dances, including sculptures, sets, costumes and other works by artists like Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.

Company press releases in 2005-2006 stated that sales totalled $ 40 million in 2003 and $ 150 million in 2004, and that 2005 sales were more than twice those of 2004.

Although Fallujah had seen sporadic air strikes by American forces, public opposition was not galvanized until 700 members of the 82nd Airborne Division first entered the city on 23 April 2003, and approximately 150 members of Charlie Company occupied al-Qa ' id primary.

* 1998: Sold to The Learning Company for $ 150 million.

While Behram is sometimes credited with 931 murders, James Paton, an East India Company officer working for the Thuggee and Dacoity Office in the 1830s who wrote a manuscript on Thuggee, quotes Behram as saying he had " been present " at 931 cases of murder, and " I may have strangled with my own hands about 125 men, and I may have seen strangled 150 more.

The Donahue brothers and Eastland incorporated the San Francisco Gas Company on August 31, 1852, with $ 150, 000 of authorized capital.

The Berthon Boat Company is still operating today on the same site and is still a boat yard with a workforce of 70 skilled craftsmen specialising in the refit and repair of yachts of up to 150 feet.

( 1897 ) At a cost of $ 150, 000 an electrical dam is built on the river by Consumers Electric Light and Street Railway Company.

At the beginning of World War I, Stettinius went to work for J. P. Morgan and Company, where he worked as chief buyer of war supplies for the Allies, overseeing a work force of around 150 people.

Among the distinguished foreign officers given commissions in the 60th ( Royal Americans ) was Henri Bouquet, a Swiss citizen, whose ideas on tactics, training and man-management ( including the unofficial introduction of the rifle and ' battle-dress `) would become universal in the British Army some 150 years later.

* 1943 – World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10, 000 and rendering 150, 000 homeless.

The facility ( called Roughs Tower or HM Fort Roughs ) was occupied by 150 – 300 Royal Navy personnel throughout World War II ; not until well after the war, in 1956, were the last full-time personnel taken off HM Fort Roughs.

A police operation, which mobilized 150 agents, searched five military barracks ( in Leopoldsburg near the Dutch border: Kleine-Brogel, Peer, Brussels ( Royal military school ) and Zedelgem – as well as 18 private addresses in Flanders.

The German occupation forces ' delay in occupying Oslo, along with swift action from the President of the Storting, C. J Hambro, created the opportunity for the Norwegian Royal Family, the Cabinet, and most of the 150 members of the Storting ( parliament ) to make a hasty departure from the capital by special train.

The Royal Air Force also formed 15 commando units in 1942, each of which was 150 strong.

Samuel had in fact originally tried to persuade The Royal Asiatic Society at Calcutta to publish the work, a fact alluded to obliquely in the preface to Noah's 1840 edition, but eventually Samuel sold the work to Noah for £ 150 pounds.

During the First World War the company was contracted to build 600 aircraft at the Acton factory ( 50 Royal Aircraft Factory R. E. 7, 400 Royal Aircraft Factory R. E. 8 and 150 Sopwith Snipes ).

The bulk of the mission ended on 30 April 2009 but around 150 troops, mainly from the Royal Navy, remained in Iraq until 22 May 2011 as part of the Iraqi Training and Advisory Mission.

Together, the Royal Air Force groups were capable of supplying eighty-eight Albermarles, eighty-eight Stirlings, thirty-six Halifaxes and 150 Dakotas, a total of 362 planes which did not include aircraft held as reserves.

After these changes, the Royal Air Force groups could supply 88 Albermarles, 88 Stirlings, 36 Halifaxes and 150 Dakotas, a total of 362 planes, in addition to aircraft held as reserves.

He had refused this knighthood more than once until-after he had spent £ 150, 000 to build the Millbank Gallery, endowed it with his personal collection, and presented it to the nation-he was told the Royal Family would be offended if he refused again.

Lawrence then rode 150 miles to Suez to arrange Royal Navy delivery of food and supplies for the 2500 Arabs and 700 Ottoman prisoners in Aqaba ; soon the city was co-occupied by a large Anglo-French flotilla ( including warships and sea planes ), which helped the Arabs secure their hold on Aqaba.

In July 2006 Steve Jenkins, assisted by Les Bailey, took a party of 150 Leyton Orient supporters and members of the Leyton and Manor Park Royal British Legion over to the Somme region of northern France, to visit World War I war graves and in particular to pay their respects at the resting places of Richard McFadden, William Jonas and George Scott.

The Royal Navy, which then controlled the world's seas, established the West Africa Squadron in 1808 to patrol the coast of West Africa, and between 1808 and 1860 they seized approximately 1, 600 slave ships and freed 150, 000 Africans who were aboard.

Allied strength for Operation Agreement involved an amphibious seaborne force of about 400 Royal Marines, 180 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Army Engineers and about 150 SAS coming from the desert.

The Department of Arts then provided € 150, 000 in funding for a second inquiry led by former civil servant Seán Cromien, under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy.

In 1829 the Royal New South Wales Veterans Companies, or Veterans Corps, had about 150 men serving at various posts in NSW, Norfolk Island and Tasmania.

In the early 1840s Thomas Cubitt and James Pennethorne had proposed a plan to use 150, 000 tons of rocks and earth from the excavation of the Royal Victoria Dock to infill the marshy Battersea Fields and create a large public park to serve the growing population of Chelsea.

Mallet, with letters of support from Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin, petitioned the Royal Society of London and received a grant of £ 150 to go to Padula and record at first hand the devastation.

Historically they were hunted for their oil ; between 1870 and 1919 the government of Tasmania issuing licences for hunting them, with an average of 150, 000 penguins ( both Royal and King ) being taken each year.

The Royal Oak stands about 150 yards ( 137m ) south-west of the house, in a farmer's field, but with an access path.