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...selling campaign in West Germany, which is considered the best hunting ground for potential customers. Bache & Co. is wooing its customers in Geneva with a new machine that can provide split-second quotes on 4,000 U.S. stocks, and this month Western Union will install a stock-ticker service in 15 U.S. brokerage houses in Switzerland. Altogether, close to 50 New York Stock Exchange members have moved into Europe...
...blunted, by deliberately plunging into the miasma of memos and meet ings?" he says. But he nevertheless owns a healthy 25% of Route 66 and insists that from now on he will hold out for 50% ownership of any show he writes. He installed a Dow-Jones ticker tape in the study of his home in Glendale to keep tab on his stock transactions. He agrees with his fellow apprentices that TV writers are grossly underpaid...
...market. When a broker places an order for a customer, the wholesaler either draws the unlisted stock from his own portfolio (each wholesaler "makes markets" in several issues), or telephones around to others to dicker for a deal. Since there is no clearing house, no ticker tape and scant supervision, ample room exists for imaginative wheeling and dealing...
Wall Street jumped nervously, as it often does when the talk is of war and peace. At one point, the ticker ran eleven minutes late on the New York Stock Exchange as the sell orders flooded in. Between noon and 1 p.m., nearly 1,400,000 shares had changed hands, and prices went down as much as 4.98 points on the Dow-Jones industrial average before the market got its equilibrium back...
Love That Chanko. The victory earned Taiho the Emperor's Cup, a ticker-tape parade through Tokyo, countless gifts. and a new flood of marriage proposals from female admirers. Such blandishments still dazzle the bulky ex-lumberjack, son of a Russian father and a Japanese mother, who was recruited by a sumo scout when he was 16 and weighed a mere 155 lbs. Apprenticed to a sumo stable in Tokyo, Taiho built up his weight by devouring large quantities of chanko-chicken, cabbage, potatoes, potato peels, radishes, carrots, flour and soy sauce, all beaten into a glutinous mass...