Word: ticker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along Fifth Avenue and in the high canyons of the financial district, clerks threw cautionings and paper to the winds, sent 77 tons of ticker tape and torn wastepaper fluttering down. (The tonnage for Lindbergh: 1,800.) Harlem's Negroes yelled like Indians on the warpath. Thirty thousand schoolchildren shrilled along Central Park drives. Everywhere the sound of cheering erupted deafeningly (after setting up a "noise meter" the stunned General Electric Co. calculated that it equaled 3,000 thunderclaps...
...Manhattan, the most effervescent U.S. city, the carnival sights and sounds bubbled spontaneously, then subsided, then fizzed again. For a while on Monday, torn paper and ticker tape by the ton fluttered from skyscrapers, and the streets turned white. Half a million people clotted Times Square, sober and undemonstrative, waiting for somebody to start the fun. Nobody...
...sudden break sent market analysts rushing for paper & pencil to explain what had happened. A few pundits saw great significance in the fact that one wave of selling swamped the market minutes after the ticker had flashed the news that the U.S. First Army was across the Rhine. Their inference: good war news was bad news for speculators in war industries...
EARNINGS The Way Down? As the flood of year-end earnings reports tumbled from the ticker last week, the evidence piled up that U.S. industry had passed the war's profit peak...
...Ticker Tape and Caviar. Wechsberg's sketches and anecdotes show that he most often found the bluebird in his own musical backyard. The characters he portrays most fondly and skilfully are such acquaintances of his musical wanderings as Maurice, an orchestra leader "who was brought up on Pernod instead of mother's milk"; Boris, a violinist who "occasionally [ate] caviar with his right hand, playing a stunning pizzicato sequence with his left" Monsieur Arnould, a music director who had something "of the jovial, placid, dignity of the bull fiddle" he once played; Franzl, an amateur pianist whose reason...