Word: margin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Exchange Bill as the Administration wanted it. One by one all attempts at pulling its teeth were overridden with dispatch. When Wall Street heard that Ohio's Senator Bulkley had been able to pick up 30 votes, including Senator Carter Glass's, for an amendment banning all margin trading, the last slim hope for a moderate measure disappeared. Stock Exchange seats plummeted to $100,000, down $40,000 from last month, $90,000 from last February...
...House fixes margin requirements by formula; the Senate leaves the question to its commission...
With the race between the two captains, Johnny Morse and Karl Warner, looming as the outstanding contest in the Yale meet Saturday, the dope sheets seem to threw the advantage to the Eli team. However, since the margin is a matter of only two or three points, the meet may be termed a toss...
...slim margin, took the decisive bout. Champion Norman C. Armitage, a chemist himself, and famed Photographer Nickolas Muray, took two bouts apiece. Final score: U. S., 54; Great Britain...
...Exchange members who handle about 70% of the total U. S. brokerage business, took in $1,502,000,000 in commissions in five and two-thirds years. Next in importance was interest, footing up to $320,000,000 and largely derived from charging customers a slightly higher rate on margin accounts than brokers pay banks. Third was trading profits-$237,000,000. Miscellaneous income was $92,000,000. From this gross income of $2,153,000,000, $1,262,000,000 was deducted for expenses. Another $102,000,000 was dropped in bad accounts. Including the six odd-lot houses...