Word: ticker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, Bloomingdale Bros. proudly supervised the laying of a cornerstone for their new store. Enclosed in the cornerstone were: a baseball autographed by Babe Ruth; a roll of ticker-tape; a horseshoe; a pair of eyeglasses; some sheet music; a telephotograph of Charles A. Lindbergh and wife; a wedding ring; several hundred flower seeds; a copy of the Congressional Record; a subway strap; some newspapers; a forecast of the future by Florenz ("Follies") Ziegfeld...
Disconcerting to "constructive interest'' was the volume of trading and the lateness of the ticker, a condition apt to cause confusion, violent moves. To abate this, new tickers are being installed, may be ready in 60 days. Instead of the present 260 characters a minute, the new ones will zoom by with 700. Electric quotation boards are also being put into service. The first was placed in the uptown office of Sutro & Co. last May. There are now 65 in Manhattan, and some will be installed in Western offices soon...
...Ticker service from Chicago stretches to 32 cities, all but two of which have been added since June 1928. Six cities, including Washington, Philadelphia and Boston, have had this service put in since the Break. Within 60 days, the Exchange promises, ticker service will reach the Pacific Coast...
...organization should be required before the shrinking bud can be successfully plucked. It seems almost tragic that the personal element should be lost in the giant network of the matrimonial market. If the present racket should develop consistently, obviously the next step is to establish a black-board and ticker tape at the Somerset in direct communication with a subsidiary machine at University Hall...
...Citizens remember how Rose Rosenberg landed in New York last fall amid salutes, sirens, cheers and a blizzard of ticker tape; how she went by special train to Washington and was received at the White House; how she moved in a triumphal pageant through Canada and finally sailed for home and England with James Ramsay MacDonald whose hard-slaving private secretary...