Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wall Street is still retrenching. The New York Curb Exchange last week announced that it had bought back 50 seats, thus cut its membership to 500. The 50 seats, at $1,000 each (1929 high: $254,000), were bought from estates of deceased members and fellow brokers who had quit the game...
...March 5, 1942, the operators of vehicles other than emergency vehicles shall immediately reduce speed to not more than 15 miles per hour, drive to the side, of the road or curb at the first opportunity and stop. The operators of vehicles shall extinguish the lights thereon. The operators of such vehicles shall not park at intersections hydrants, police stations, fire stations or hospitals. If practical, the operators of such vehicles shall drive the same entirely off the travelled portions of the road or highway. Vehicles already parked at the curb, in parking place or garages shall be left where...
...them, yes, I saw their unbreathing armies marching against the Capitol in ranks that filled the boulevard from curb to curb...
...kill self-regulation of the Stock Exchange just when the Exchange had reorganized for that very purpose. SEC in turn not only dragged out Dick Whitney, but also the more recent Cuppia case. Jerome Chester Cuppia, a former partner of E. A. Pierce and ex-governor of the N.Y. Curb Exchange, exiled himself to South America in 1940 after engaging in fee-splitting and kickbacks totaling over $1,000,000 in eight years (an infraction of the Curb's constitution). Six other Curb members involved were finally expelled after SEC began its own hearings on the mess. But Ringleader...
...nurser of secrets, Merrill Lynch used most of a handsome 20-page report to tell Wall Street about its success. Its 29,886 new customers last year pushed M.L.'s total to 70,000 active accounts whose buying & selling amounted to 8% of all New York Stock & Curb Exchange transactions. M.L.'s commission: around $3,500,000. Another $4,000,000 came from commodity and underwriting business. The rest of M.L.'s $8,657,000 gross was interest income...