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...rise has been more of a trajectory than a career. In two years Miss Shore has become the No. 1 female blues singer. She queens the juke boxes within an inch of Bing Crosby ("than whom," says Dinah, "there is no whomer"). Her extracurricular "honors" have piled up like ticker tape. She was "Queen" of the Brooklyn Dodgers, "Queen" of Manhattan's famed Seventh Regiment, is "Sweetheart" of more Army camps than she can remember. At Manhattan's Butlers' Ball she was named "The Girl We Wish Would Come to Dinner...
...build more & more, some time. In late December, it was to be 120,000 tons, in January it was 400,000, in March 600,000, then 800,000. By June it was to be 1,000,000 tons. Letters of intent from Jesse to the trade fluttered down like ticker tape at a pre-crash Wall Street parade...
...York the ticker tape rained down as they rode up the Broadway canyon. In Washington they shook hands with the President. Baltimore showed them a sham battle. In Detroit they visited bomber plants. Portland dropped rose petals on their broad shoulders. In Los Angeles they danced with movie stars...
...York Stock Exchange tried out a new scheme to get more business last week, and it worked. The scheme: "special offerings," by which big blocks of listed stocks, ordinarily sold off the exchange floor, can be lured back to the ticker...
First test of this scheme was 2,958 shares of Bon Ami Co. B stock, an inactive issue. Last week, just 103 minutes trading time after the first ticker-tape notice flashed in U.S. brokerage offices, the last share was sold. To Stott, this was full proof that the Big Board can handle almost any stock-selling job. To the seller, it meant a big saving in commissions. Off-the-board commissions would have been around $6,000; commissions under the special offerings plan were $3,163-only 2.86% of the $110,555 deal. Thus, in effect, Mr. Stott...