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Trading on the New York Stock Exchange was sloppy. Prices floundered about aimlessly. Slowly the ticker printed out its daily 2:15 message: DELIVERY TIME. The hum of trading became slightly louder...
...molded of a chemical composition of which gelatin is the base. A combination of properties in the lens and the screen prevents the image from penetrating beyond the screen. Trans-Lux first became commercially practicable about two years ago. Early Trans-Lux machines in brokerage houses illumined the ticker-tape quotations of the 1929 crash...
City Room. A copy boy emerged from the wire room of the New York Evening World, dawdled across the floor and laconically laid on the city desk a bulletin from the City News Association ticker. City Editor Jack Rainey, who was sending away the last of his Wall Street Closing edition, hastily scanned the slip of paper, stopped stock still, read again. An assistant looked over his shoulder, then a rewrite man, then others...
...Happy New Year!' You see him above as he appeared in padded cell at Bellevue, to which he was rushed and in which he was photographed." He mailed the prints to friends as his Christmas card. Last year Mad Bob Carmichael sent his friends burlap bags full of ticker tape printed GOOD WISHES GOOD WISHES GOOD WISHES GOOD WISHES. . . . Author Erich Maria Remarque of All Quiet on the Western Front, in refusing to see the cinema version of his book as shown at Paris, declared: "A sort of shame makes me refuse to see the acting anew of those...
...work at 19 in the brokerage business and soon owned a company dealing in bank stocks and unlisted securities. Since then, he has financed (in some cases single-handed): a seal-top for milk bottles (Standard Cap & Seal); the Dictograph; the acousticon; Budd all-steel automobile bodies; Trans-Lux ticker. In all of these he remains the largest stockholder. He is also largest individual stockholder in Hup Motors...