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...Deluge. With the opening gong, the selling wave began. By noon the tickers were so far behind sales that nobody had a way of finding out what actual prices were. Auburn Auto tumbled another 70 points to 190; U.S. Steel broke to 193⅛, down 68 points from its recent high...
Tense and nervous, speculators crowded the Chicago wheat pit one morning last week, waiting for the opening gong. When it rang, they furiously began waving orders to buy. The price of wheat futures rose by the hour, jumping as much as 8¾? a bushel. Professional speculators, who had been selling wheat short while the price was edging down, took heavy losses...
Throng Rings Gong...
...opening gong at 8:30 a.m., a reinforced sales force of 200 (normal: 25) was washed aside by the tide of bargain hunters. The hunters fought their way to the racks and crawled over them like Japanese beetles on a bush. By 11 o'clock, the racks were stripped bare. Filene's rang up an estimated $65,000 in sales and, to boot, had netted an inestimable amount in good-will advertising...
University rulings have forced the 1952 Smoker Committee to cancel plans for nationwide coverage of the Freshman Smoker through the Columbia Broadcasting System and Life Magazine, Chairman Edmond J. Gong '52 said last night...