Word: tapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blunt declaration of U. S. independence in Navy-building (TIME, Nov. 19)-a declaration which restored Anglo-American "understanding" to a pre-War mood-the Britten proposal seemed, just possibly, to be a blunt Representative's effort to start all over again, without Presidential prolixity or diplomatic red-tape, and get an elementary subject thoroughly thrashed out between the plain people of two friendly countries...
Machines. Hopelessly overtaxed, the market's machinery halted Friday night, attempted to catch up over the weekend. Early in the week, the ticker had run two hours behind the market. Exchange authorities ordered the omission of volume figures on the tape. To supply the press with the figures, Western Union sent to Chicago for telegraphic printing machines, chartered six compartments of the Twentieth Century Limited to carry them swiftly and luxuriously to Manhattan. Even without volume, the ticker ran 49 minutes behind in Friday's session...
...Because of its high price per share. Stocks selling at $500 or more are members of the "500-Club." Case joined the "500-Club" on Friday, when a 3-inch strip of ticker tape showed amazed brokers these quotations...
...Pollock, a great showman, is not a great artist. He has tried to do a Faust, with snatches of The Adding Machine and the Ballet Mechanique. His devil is a silk-hatted Babbitt named Mr. Moneypenny, who seizes an old and whining clerk named John Jones, gives him ticker tape and a Park Avenue apartment. It soon becomes apparent that John Jones is not happy-one doubts that he could be happy under any conditions. His children (with one exception) go to various types of metropolitan hell. Meanwhile, Author Pollock denounces night clubs, politicians, newspaper owners, Algonquinesque writers, Wall Street...
...Metre Run. Won by Ray Barbuti of the U. S. 47 4/5 sec. Before the race he drank a cherry eggnog. At the finish he dived into the tape, sprawled upon the cinder track, was severely cut. But that was the way in which he conquered James Ball of Canada by an eyelash...