Word: telautograph
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Nothing sends a stock up faster than the news that a company has a glamorous new electronic device-especially if the news is exaggerated. Example: two little-known, money-losing companies. TelAutograph and Comptometer Corp., last week set off a speculative binge that resulted in some of the wildest trading the New York Stock Exchange has seen since 1929. In eight trading days TelAutograph zipped from 9½to a high of 24½, and Comptometer soared from...
...opening of the market on the next trading day, the flood of orders to buy was so great and sellers so few that longtime Specialist John Coleman of Adler. Coleman & Co. (TIME, July n), the man responsible for keeping the market orderly in TelAutograph, did not open the stock all day. Coleman and Stock Exchange officials thought the demand was based on questionable information, wanted more time to get all the facts. Next day Coleman finally opened the stock one minute before the close at 24, up 5/½ over the previous close...
...Brentano, have kept the production from being a mere musical biography, and by the introduction of "Live" have prevented it from becoming a mere period piece; moreover, the transition between scenes--America and France, the present and the past--is made admirably clear by a writing device known as "Telautograph Projection...
Working like a telautograph, the Audimeter is designed to record with a stylus on moving tape every twist of the radio switch and dials. It registers programs received, whether a program was tuned de liberately or found by dial twisting, whether it was heard through the full period, tuned out at any point, or kept on only after unsuccessful search for something better. Eliminating memory and other human fallibilities from listener-interest testing, Audimeters should tell advertisers just what audience he has and precisely what in his program, if anything, drives an audience away. Independent of telephones, the survey should...
...opening bang-haired Royal Cortissoz, most learned of Manhattan's art critics, sat himself down to test the library's resources. Shooting his cuffs, he called for material on Botticelli's Abundance in the British Museum and the portrait of Alessandro del Borro in Berlin. The telautograph squiggled and in a few minutes stack girls emerged with two folders. Critic Cortissoz' little goatee waggled with pleasure to find attached to an excellent photograph of the Botticelli drawing the date, a list of all the reproductions that have ever been published, all previous owners, all exhibitions...