Word: ticker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Willkie reached Los Angeles, the city went crazy. Torn paper & ticker tape showered down, a steady, deep-toned roar followed his car for many miles, and at the City Hall the swirling crowd jammed around him so frenziedly that he never got within 50 feet of Acting Mayor Robert Burns and the dignitaries...
...with the things it has. . . . You don't look 'dumb' to me." In a confused moment he made his first blunder, let slip: "To hell with Chicago." The cavalcade rushed off to the financial district, LaSalle Street. There Chicago's cool reception turned tumultuous. A ticker-tape blizzard showered down...
Willard Garfield Weston, wealthy Canadian baker now an English M. P., got so excited reading the news ticker at the House of Commons that he promised ?100,000 ($400,000) to Lord Beaverbrook's Ministry for Aircraft Production, to replace that day's plane losses. Prime Minister Churchill conveyed the War Cabinet's special compliments...
...Over the ticker just after 12:45 p.m. went the news that 1,500 shares of Kennecott had been sold at 25-⅛ under the last sale. Next sale was 200 shares at 24⅞; then 400 at 24⅜. Could the market take it? It could. On the fourth try 20,000 shares of Kennecott went down the chute at 24⅝-up ¼ from the low, only ½ under the high...
...Spencer Tracy, Edison beds down thriftily in the basement of a bank for which he soon contrives a stock ticker. He also has a decorous love affair with the future Mrs. Edison (Rita Johnson), invents the phonograph by left-handed chance, the electric light by hard work, battles heroically to secure the street-lighting franchise for Manhattan, signs off with honors...