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Burst of Joy. The buying stampede began with Monday's 10 a.m. opening bell on the Big Board. Professionals and small investors alike grabbed at shares throughout the day. The exchange's new high-speed ticker ran 15 minutes late reporting floor transactions By closing, volume reached a record 17.73 million shares, toppling the old mark of 16.41 million shares set on Oct. 29, 1929, the Black Tuesday that triggered the Depression of the '30s. The Dow-Jones industrial average of 30 blue-chip industrial stocks jumped 20.58 points, its biggest one-day gain m 41 years...
...quieter, as stock prices edged up a bit more (2.71 points on the Dow-Jones industrials) and volume held high (14.52 million shares). On Wednesday, with the news that North Viet Nam was at least willing to talk, the trading avalanche roared to a 19.29 million-share crescendo. The ticker fell an unprecedented 47 minutes behind the action on the Big Board floor. Perspiring brokers cheered again and again as volume figures flashed across the magnified tapes projected along trading-room walls. The bellwether industrial average soared more than 13 points before profit-taking sales pulled it back...
...holler 'April fool!' he was a Cabinet member." By that time, Hope and his sidekicks-popeyed, siren-throated Jerry Colonna, Brenda and Cobina, and Bandleader Skinnay Ennis-had turned Tuesday into Bob Hope night in the U.S. Every Wednesday morning in those days, the Dow-Jones stock ticker used to carry the best of his jokes. During his ten years as toothpaste salesman, he claims, Pepsodent leapfrogged from No. 6 in sales...
...interested in how other people make a living." As the Journal rose to 1,000,000 circulation (second only to the New York Daily News), Kilgore added the National Observer (1962) to the Dow Jones stable, which, with Barren's financial weekly and the profitable financial ticker service, was bringing in annual revenues of $83 million when he retired last year...
...Simon also squarely faces a fact often obscured by sentimental hindsight: a great many bands of the era were inevitably cheap, slick or inept. He quotes Arranger Gordon Jenkins, after an evening of listening to the radio in 1937: "I heard 458 chromatic runs on accordions, 911 'telegraph ticker' brass figures, 78 sliding trombones, four sliding violas, 45 burps into a straw, 91 bands that played the same arrangement on every tune, and 11,006 imitations of Benny Goodman...