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  2. Pacific Pearl Company - Wikipedia

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    The Pacific Pearl Company was incorporated in the American state of New York on November 18, 1863. Principal officers included John Chadwick as president, George Wrightson as treasurer, and Julius H. Kroehl as chief engineer. Other shareholders included William Henry Tiffany, Charles D. Poston and William M.B. Hartley. The company was a venture ...

  3. Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust - Wikipedia

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    Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust. The Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust (NPRT) was a sovereign wealth fund developed by the government of the Republic of Nauru in which the government invested money from the state-owned mining company, Nauru Phosphate Corporation. This money was then re-invested in a real estate portfolio, among other things, to ...

  4. Pacific Proving Grounds - Wikipedia

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    The Pacific Proving Grounds was the name given by the United States government to a number of sites in the Marshall Islands and a few other sites in the Pacific Ocean at which it conducted nuclear testing between 1946 and 1962. The U.S. tested a nuclear weapon (codenamed Able) on Bikini Atoll on June 30, 1946. This was followed by Baker on July ...

  5. Boeing machinists on picket lines prepare for lengthy strike ...

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    The median home price in Washington state increased about 142% to $613,000 as of 2023, from $253,800 a decade earlier, according to the state’s Office of Financial Management. ... A strike fund ...

  6. Phosphate mining in Banaba and Nauru - Wikipedia

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    The government puts profits from the mining into a trust for the islanders. This trust reached a peak of A$1 billion, returning approximately 14% annually. Poor investments and corruption have left the trust fund nearly empty and therefore Nauru with little money. In the year 1948, revenues from phosphate mining were A$745,000.

  7. Pacific Horizon Investment Trust - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.pacifichorizon.co.uk. The Pacific Horizon Investment Trust ( LSE : PHI) is a publicly-traded investment trust. The Trust invests in the markets of the Asia Pacific region (excluding Japan) and of the Indian Sub-continent. [ 1] The Trust is managed by Baillie Gifford, an Edinburgh-based investment management partnership. [ 2]

  8. Pacific Equity Partners - Wikipedia

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    A$ 10 billion (2022) Website. www.pep.com.au. Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) is a private equity investment firm focusing on transactions in Australia and New Zealand. PEP invests across a range of industries and sectors, in turnaround and growth capital transactions. By 2023, The Australian Financial Review reported PEP to be Australia's ...

  9. Pacific Pearl - Wikipedia

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    Pacific Pearl Company, a United States pearling company established in 1863 and dissolved in 1924. MV Pacific Pearl, a cruise ship launched in 1988 and operated by P&O Cruises Australia, sold to Cruise & Maritime Voyages in 2017 and renamed MV Columbus, and subsequently scrapped in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Category: Disambiguation pages.