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...plunging downward. To add to the threat of another Black Friday*; was the fact that brokers loans reached a new all time high, over six billion dollars. At the New York Stock Exchange, the gallery was packed with spectators by 9:30 a.m. Five minutes before the opening the ticker flashed: "The floor is filled with sellers...
...France, He de France and Paris. M. J. Meehan & Co. will locate on the Cunarder Berengaria and the U. S. liner Leviathan. Details of keeping ocean travelers in touch with market fluctuations have not been announced. Engineers of Radio Corp. of America, however, have been working on a radio ticker.. Particularly appropriate as a wireless brokerage would seem the Meehan ocean-going branches, as broker Mike Meehan is famed as specialist in Radio Corp. stock...
...have stopped paying attention without having stopped enjoying it. Director Bretherton arranged the story very smoothly. Betty Compson, and an unknown, dark-haired young man named Grant Withers play opposite each other. Assorted sound-shots: a crowd at a football game, a college dance where everyone sings, a stock ticker. Thunder (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Lined and grey, smeared with oil, misty with sentiment under its visored cap, the face at the window of the enginecab is Lon Chaney's. Coincidence turns the wheels. The engineer has two sons. One of them is killed. Lon Chaney, driving the train carrying...
...land. He left the S. S. Aquitania at Quarantine, sped up the harbor on a special tug, landed at Manhattan's Battery, motored up Broadway past City Hall. But not one whistle blew for Hero Young. Not one ecstatic cheer rose for him. Not one inch of ticker tape fell upon him. Insistently refusing a public reception, Hero Young made his homecoming a strictly private affair...
...your door no wolf will ever howl. Logical, in many ways, is this theory (though it involves faith, hope and occasionally some charity regarding investment trusts and their management) but many a U. S. investor, doggedly individualistic, will doubtless continue to pick his own issues, watch his own ticker and, if necessary, lose his own shirt...