Word: throgmorton
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...London Stock Exchange occupies a triangular area between Throgmorton Street, Bartholomew Lane and Old Broad Street. It is drabbish outside, domed above, spacious within. The Stock Exchange is a private corporation with some 2,700 shareholders, nearly all of whom are among the 4,000 members. The membership is divided between brokers proper, acting as agents on a commission basis, and jobbers who buy and sell, trade on their own account. One man cannot be both...
After hours the 4,000 top-hatted brokers of the London Stock Exchange filled Throgmorton Street well into the evening to continue dealings. New British Woolworth shares were a favorite, and such prominent London groups as the rubbers, home-rails, breweries and artificial silks were all higher. Internationals (mostly Americans) were strong. So were old favorites like Bats (British-American Tobacco), Imps (Imperial Tobacco), the Tinto (Rio Tinto), and the Johnnies (Johannesburg mining shares...
...exchange, since the boom of seven years ago, has been as quiet as an untenanted playhouse. The rayon announcement pierced the gloomy hush like a spotlight lighting its stage for the premiere of an exciting play. The scene on the stage was an alley in the City of London, Throgmorton Street. Hustling onto this stage from every entrance came a mob of stockbrokers, those frantic and mysterious vaudevillians, shouting the abandoned gibberish of their lines...
...rayon announcement was made after the end of the stock market day in London; the next morning, before the Exchange opened (the London outdoor curb market keeps the hours it pleases), the curb brokers on Throgmorton Street, unshaven and madly perturbed, bid the shares up from a little above ?7 to well above ?9. When the clock in Capel Court, a few blocks away from Throgmorton Street over the low City roofs, struck its nine slow bells, the sun slanted a bright beam into Throgmorton Street and the official Exchange opened. Here, the bidding corrected the excesses that the curb...
...York, the effect of the Courtaulds melon was less extravagant. On the Curb Exchange, Courtaulds rose from 38½ to 42½; the next day was a U. S. holiday so that Manhattan brokers could sit and watch the play that was going on in Throgmorton Street. They whispered their applause over whiskey and soda; then, on the next morning, they took their profits from the rise...