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...York Stock Exchange the ticker symbol for Pierce Petroleum is PPX. One day last week PPX started to appear on the tape in blocks of 20,000 and 30,000 shares, and by the close was the most active issue on the Big Board with a total volume of 180,000 shares for the day. At $1.50 per share it was up 25?, a 20% rise in one session...
...economics and mining engineering. Fore seeing the expansion of electrical power, he made up his mind to get rich in copper. Charles Hayden proposed to do so not by mining copper but by speculating in copper. Year after graduation he took a $3-a-week job as a "ticker boy" to learn the inside of a broker's office. At 21 he was ready to borrow $20,000 from his father, launch his own brokerage business with his officemate Galen L. Stone, whose Milk Street friends put up another $20,000. Hayden, Stone & Co.'s shrewd "market letter...
...Hospitals have received no new endowments. Returns from existing endowments have vanished or have been materially reduced." While Mr. Smith was pleading his high cause, suspension of nation-wide ticker service with the day's closing prices and final bid & ask quotations brought down a flood of startled inquiries and outraged protests by telephone and telegraph...
Brokerage offices were thrown into excited confusion. So besieged by questioners were the ticker services that their telephone operators could only answer : "Hold on a minute, please." Radio stations had to postpone quotation broadcasts. From coast to coast evening papers, whose Wall Street editions must wait for closing prices and bid & ask quotations, were held up while financial editors futilely tore their hair. Net result of the Stock Exchange's generous attention to Al Smith's warm-hearted plea was a renewed blast of criticism from the outraged Press, which was additionally irked because the Exchange had refused...
...saved. As the bulbous defenders of our liberties meet to take stock of the state of their organization, all considerations of the twin menace of Russia and pacifism are overshadowed by a genuine American tragedy: the membership of the D. A. R. has slid downhill like a 1929 ticker tape, with 25,000 fewer on the rolls than eight years...