Most of the world's business is done by companies, or partnerships, or associated endeavor of some kind.
"Friendship"
Hugh Black
All purely earthly partnerships, like all earthly treasures, are exposed to decay, the bite of the moth and the stain of the rust; and they must all have an end.
"Friendship"
Hugh Black
Well, then came the Rocky Mountain Company, and the American Fur Company, and the Pacific Fur Company, and the Columbia Fur Company, and I don't know how many other St. Louis partnerships up-river-not mentioning the pack-train outfits under many names-and so all at once, as though by magic, there were posts strung clear to the head of the river-one hundred and forty of them, as I have told you.
"The Young Alaskans on the Missouri"
Emerson Hough