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...York Central and Pennsylvania railroads installed automatic control centers (see cut) for dispensing tickets in seven stations, including Philadelphia's 30th Street Station, plan other installations along their lines. A "ready sale"board, resembling a stock broker's quotation board, tells both customer and ticket agent what space is available for a one-week period on as many as 23 different trains. Then a special card, representing the passenger's choice of space, is passed through an electronic scanner that prints the Pullman ticket automatically. Elapsed time: two minutes. To accommodate customers ordering reservations from other locations...
...blasting the contract as a bad one and urging AEC to back out. What is more, they think that AEC will welcome the chance. TVA could then overcome most Democrats' objections to the present contract by signing a contract directly with Dixon-Yates, thus eliminating AEC as the broker...
...brokers' board rooms were crowded with tape-watchers and tipsters who bought stocks without even knowing what a company manufactured. In 1954 the only time board rooms were crowded was at night-for classes in which new investors learned how to buy stocks and how to evaluate a company. "When we started talking stock to a lot of our new customers out west Texas way," said a Dallas broker, "it took a while to make it clear that we didn't mean the four-legged kind." Dozens of corporations helped educate the public about free enterprise by starting...
...spoke up for the rights of Nazis in the German-American Bund. He got his biggest fee-$578,000-in 1933, when he successfully broke the $50 million will of Ella Wendel, an eccentric spinster, on behalf of 60 heirs. In the '30s he defended Wall Street brokers, when he thought the SEC was trampling on their rights. "I hate censorship of business as well as of books," said Hays, who became rich on the fees of his banker and broker clients...
...Named for Monroe D. Anderson, wealthy Houston cotton broker, who died in 1939 and left his fortune for "good works...