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...Channing Pollock, a great showman, is not a great artist. He has tried to do a Faust, with snatches of The Adding Machine and the Ballet Mechanique. His devil is a silk-hatted Babbitt named Mr. Moneypenny, who seizes an old and whining clerk named John Jones, gives him ticker tape and a Park Avenue apartment. It soon becomes apparent that John Jones is not happy-one doubts that he could be happy under any conditions. His children (with one exception) go to various types of metropolitan hell. Meanwhile, Author Pollock denounces night clubs, politicians, newspaper owners, Algonquinesque writers, Wall...
Stockmarketeers found a suddenly strong market, hazarded various and unconvincing explanations, decided not to look the gift horse in the mouth. For the first time since June, a single day's trading passed the 4,000,000-share mark. The ticker once again fell behind, a full 25 minutes. Many stocks were pushed to new high levels for all time. Among them: U. S. Steel, Adams Express, International Nickel, American Express, Allis-Chalmers, Fleischmann, Victor Talking Machine, Loose-Wiles Biscuit, Commercial Investment Trust. Soaring, too, were Montgomery Ward, Chile Copper, Commonwealth Power, Anaconda, Coty Inc., Eaton Axle & Spring...
Appearing on stock market ticker tapes last week, was a new symbol: KVL. It represented the stock of the Kelvinator Corp., a subsidiary of the Electric Refrigeration...
...asked by his office for a quotation on General Electric. "What the-!" he roared. "I can't be bothered for quotations at a time like this!" "But Berlin wants to know. They're holding the wire." Abashed, the floorman dove into the nearest drift of ticker-tape. "138½ and still going up!" he reported. Berlin bought 3,000 shares...
Shortly after the General Motors spurt, the market's opening was one without parallel in the memory of the oldest ticker-tape scanner in the field district. It had been rumored that there was a corner-in Radio Corporation of America, that desperate shorts who sold 350,000 shares could not borrow any stocks with which to make delivery to the purchasers at 2:15 P.M. Every craning neck in customers' rooms, every visitor in the packed galleries of the Stock Exchange, knew that General Electric Co., Westinghouse Electric Co., National Bank of Pittsburgh and the famed Fisher...