Word: ticker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...share. By last fortnight it was selling at $12.50 and for several days was the most active issue on the New York Stock Exchange. These fireworks caught the eagle eye of the Securities & Exchange Commission (which has lately hired expert tape-readers to spot pools on the ticker). Last week in giving McLellan stock a clean bill of health, SEC reported that "a very large proportion of the purchases . . . represented an accumulation . . . for an individual and his associates...
...have been about $25,000,000. He laughed openly when people referred to him as the third or fourth richest man in the U. S. What is unique for a speculator, he probably has most of his winnings today. His suite of offices was small; he kept no stock ticker beside his desk and held no directorships. Nor did he employ a large staff of economic analysts. When he bought into companies he relied on personal investigations or investigations by a few men he trusted. Notable among such men was General Hugh S. Johnson whose talents were devoted...
Watchers of the U. S. skies last week reported no comet or other celestial portent. In Manhattan no showers of ticker-tape blossomed from Broadway office windows, no welcoming committee packed the steps of City Hall. No call to nation-wide thanksgiving was sounded by Nicholas Murray ("Nicholas Miraculous") Butler. No overt celebration marked the day with red. Yet many a wide-awake modern-minded citizen knew he had seen literary history pass another milestone. For last week a much-enduring traveler, world-famed but long an outcast, landed safe and sound on U. S. shores. His name was Ulysses...
...week food supply. But Hartley's life-long luck comes out of temporary hiding, and Brice, after forcing promises from all hands that none of the "messy" incidents shall be disclosed, cynically gives back the reins to his chastened superior in time for Broadway's anointment of ticker tape...
Died. Hugh Bancroft, 54, publisher, president of Dow, Jones & Co. (world's largest purveyors of finance news and ticker service, publishers of the Wall Street Journal) and of Financial Press Co. (Barren's Weekly, the Philadelphia. Financial Journal, the Boston News Bureau); apparently by his own hand (coal gas poisoning); in Cohasset, Mass. A medical examiner said Bancroft entered a blacksmith shop on his estate, sealed the doors and windows, lighted a fire in the forge...