Word: taping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Stock Exchange the ticker symbol for Pierce Petroleum is PPX. One day last week PPX started to appear on the tape in blocks of 20,000 and 30,000 shares, and by the close was the most active issue on the Big Board with a total volume of 180,000 shares for the day. At $1.50 per share it was up 25?, a 20% rise in one session...
...Ding" wanted them there because he was still burning with anger and purpose. From March 1934 until November 1935 he had sat in Washington as chief of the U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey, pleading for funds to save U. S. wildlife, meeting with bland indifference or red tape on every side (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935 et seq.). Politicians from the top down told him that nobody could get Government money for wildlife or anything else unless a good strong group of voters put the screws on their Congressmen. Tossing up his job, "Ding" set out to organize such...
Although Ordzhonikidze had long been famed as Russia's greatest uprooter of bureaucracy and slasher of red tape in Soviet production, the official newsorgans said that whoever succeeded him as Commissar of Heavy Industry will "face the task of uprooting bureaucracy and restoring morale." Observed a Christian Science Monitor dispatch from Moscow: "The authorities never permit any suggestions that there might be ineradicable defects in the very system of centralized control of all Soviet industry under 'planned economy' directed by politicians. Any person making such a suggestion would automatically become a 'counter-revolutionary...
...large splotch of China some 200 miles in diameter, perilously close to the Chinese Government at Nanking (see map). This Red State today can be roughly compared to those of such old-time Asiatic nomad conquerors as Genghis Khan, whose traveling bureaucrats pitched their tents and unraveled their red tape wherever the Great Khan's soldiers had blazed the way. Since 1934 the Red State has been "driven" or has "advanced"-according to the point of view-ahead of so-called Anti-Communist Bandit Suppression Forces dispatched by Chinese Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
Much as customs inspection pains the homing U. S. tourist, it irks shippers more. For their relief and even more for the relief of U. S. ports that felt they were losing harbor business because of red tape, Congress passed the Foreign Trade Zones Act in 1934, making a limited type of free port permissible for the first time in the highly protectionist U. S. Free ports, isolated free trade areas, were once prevalent in Europe, included such cities as Naples, Leghorn, Hamburg, Marseille. Today, sprinkled over the globe from Copenhagen to Curaçao, are some 40 free ports...