Word: ticker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor Secretary Lew Schwellenbach, who had made a frantic, futile effort to bring Lewis and the coal operators together, got the news from the White House ticker, was charmed into commenting: "Greatly gratified. . . . I hope that other striking elements in industry will follow the footsteps. . . ." President Truman got the news from Lew Schwellenbach, said that he was "very happy...
...York, 3,000,000 more people roared a welcome, threw 274 tons of ticker tape and letterheads (on account of the paper shortage General Eisenhower got but 77 tons). A huge ship's bow with five stars, hawsers, other seagoing gizmos was built in front of City Hall, and vast mobs gathered to watch the Admiral go aboard to the shrill of bosuns' calls. In the evening 2,000 people paid $15 a plate to attend a posh Waldorf-Astoria dinner where Admiral Nimitz* was introduced by Nelson Rockefeller...
...paper that much), persuaded a south St. Louis neighborhood publisher to print it,* and hired an apartment above his plant for their editorial offices. Copyreaders toiled in the living room. Managing Editor Thomas Sherman (who edits the Post-Dispatch Sunday editorial page), his society department and a Transradio news ticker were bunched in the dining room. In an alcove off the hall was the telephone switchboard, and classified-ad takers labored in the kitchen. The sports and financial departments got the bedroom. The bathroom was shared...
Meanwhile the radio, helped out by the pooled reporters of the morning Age-Herald, the evening News and Post, did its best to keep people informed. Station WAPI set up an I.N.S. news ticker in a window of Blach's department store, divided two windows into sections marked Local News, State News, National News, War News, Markets, Sports, Weather, Demobilization, etc. The crowds that gathered to read the latest stories as they were pasted up, all but blocked traffic past the store...
...roaring bull market, Wall Streeters had almost forgotten the old saw: what goes up must come down. Last week, they remembered it. The reminder began shortly before noon on Thursday. For no apparent reason, stocks began to slip, were soon tumbling under a flood of selling orders. Twice the ticker fell behind sales...