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...Harbord, President of the Corporation, and the reproduction was perfect. The picture was not reproduced in Warsaw because the requisite machinery is not yet installed there. The inventor is E. F. W. Alexanderson, radio innovator. Each variation of light and shade in a photograph is translated into punctures of ticker tape, which, when drawn through a transmitter, causes the waves to assume a corresponding pattern. At the receiving end is a magnet, moved by the waves, which controls either a beam of light acting on a photographic plate or an ink drawing instrument. The main benefit of the process will...
...third trading center in New York-the Consolidated Stock Exchange. This organization developed in comparatively recent years by the merging of several small security exchanges with the one time Petroleum Exchange. The latter had, like other commodity exchanges, been granted the use of a New York Stock Exchange ticker When the legitimate business in crude oil upon it came to an end, and the business in mainly rubbish shares proved insufficient as a source of income, its members resorted to the expedient of trading on the " Big Board " quotations...
...check against the extension of bucketing has been provided by the New York Stock Exchange in refusing to give one of it's stock tickers to any firm not of the right character. Without a stock ticker the bucketeer finds it all but impossible to do business. In this work the Stock Exchange has made few mistakes; very few of the bucketshops which have failed in recent years had a New York Stock Exchange ticker. The latter instrument must not, however, be confused with the very similar looking ticker machine of the Consolidated Stock Exchange, so many of whose...
...severe regulation imposed by the New York Stock Exchange upon its members with respect to their firm advertisements, as well as its strict control over its ticker price quotations, have been endangered through the sudden perfection of radio broadcasting. By a recent resolution, the Board of Governors has forbidden the use of the wireless by its members either for advertising or publicity purposes, or for promiscuous relaying of Stock Exchange quotations. The latter will, however, be permitted in the case of broadcasting stations approved by the Exchange. The aim of the restrictions upon member advertising is to prevent undesirable public...
...ticker clears its throat...