Word: tapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this: "I have had a bitter lesson. I was pitch-forked into the stockmarket; now I am going to pitch myself out of it. ... I have done nothing for the last six months but worry over the stockmarket action of our securities. I had an eye glued to the tape most of the time and missed many a good night's sleep. I am through with this forever. . . . Surplus earnings from now on are go- ing to be ploughed back into the company...
...active as in the earlier year. However, single transactions 23 years ago often involved between 500 to 10,000 shares; whereas at present almost all sales are for 100 to 500 shares, with a great number for less than 100 shares which do not appear on the stock tape...
Boom, boom-boom, boom, boom. To the noise of that word marched the stocks of the N. Y. Stock Exchange last week. Up the narrow white street of the tape they paraded, left foot, right foot; point after point, up went steels, up went rails, up went sterling. On Saturday, a record was reached. The trading done on that day was only once exceeded in the history of the Exchange -on a Saturday, and that once in panic-time-the silver panic of 1906. It was not until 20 minutes after twelve noon, normal closing time, that the demented ticker...
Technical matters of administration, moreover, are often antiquated and bound in red tape. The League serves as a central clearing house where methods operating in different cities are compared, and where the city administrators come in contact with the highest academic thought upon their problems...
...more pride than a tramp; . . . no more moral sense than a wax figure; no more sex than a tape worm...