Word: ticker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last week, while a languid Stock Exchange waited for the closing gong of another disappointing day, Big Steel's directors wound up another monthly meeting, went back to their offices. Fourteen minutes after the Stock Exchange had closed, the news came over the ticker: Steel had declared a $1 dividend on its common, its first since the fat days of 1937. It was also its first to be declared at a monthly meeting, and without forewarning rumors, in 23 years...
Said Odlum to himself: Since I cannot beat the ticker tape with the $37,000,000 I have in the market, why shouldn't I let it go to somebody who has a use for it? Why shouldn't I stick to the $25,000,000 of "special situation" money that I can handle profitably...
...Nuys, South Carolina's Smith, Iowa's Gillette, Alabama's John Bankhead, issued statements ranging from plaintive pleading to desperate threats. Saturday Congress had stopped even pretending to keep its mind on its work, cocked an ear to Springfield, Ill., kept an eye on the ticker for a flash from the Panama Canal Zone...
...Tape, in which people are entangled in a clocklike cobweb with a steer's skull at its centre. A squirrel gnaws at the skull, while from the right the late great Justice Holmes, astride a white charger, levels a lance at the cobweb. In other panels: a ticker-tape Pied Piper leading men to a gambling table, a gangster having a manicure, Humanity sitting in the skeleton of the Past. Critics praised what they could, or like the New York Times's Edward Alden Jewell reserved final judgment "until the panels are installed...
...surgeons were truly impersonal (or, one might say, truly neutral) they would not heed the calls of distress from suffering humanity when they themselves were otherwise engaged in watching the ticker, or playing bridge, or writing thoughtful treatises on the insanity of their fellow men. They would not go to the considerable trouble and risk of using their knives to remove the malignant growths in the body of civilization. They would always find comfortable refuge behind that ancient question, "Am I my brother's keeper...