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...shares that changed hands soared past 50 million. By month's end the total stood at a staggering 1.2 billion shares, far surpassing the August 1978 record of 865 million. The American Stock Exchange also set a trading record, with 206 million shares moving across its own ticker during the month...
...wife Doris, 57, have lived for 26 years on the farm his grandfather worked after the Civil War. "It's an industry now, not a life," says Doris. "It's the life of Riley," says Ulmer, correcting her. No livestock, no need for extra help, the ticker tape running constantly at the Anchor co-operative grain elevator, bringing prices from the commodity exchange up in Chicago. But only one of the Beetzel's four children is a farmer...
Floor traders cheered and threw ticker tape when the opening bell clanged at 10 a.m. 50 years to the day after that ring signalled the start of a decade-long depression...
...small flurry of ticker tape greeted the two-block-long line of demonstrators at one corner, and crowds lined Broadway five-deep to watch the parade...
...Thomas Alva Edison was also the most prolific inventor who ever lived; without his gadgets modern life would be inconceivable. The phonograph, the movie camera, the microphone, the mimeograph, the stock ticker-they only begin the list. Though Alexander Graham Bell devised the first telephone transmitter and receiver, it was Edison who worked out a system of reproducing phone conversations over long distances loudly enough that they could be heard easily, and who may have been the first to shout "hello" into a telephone mouthpiece. His one discovery in basic science-the "Edison effect," the emission of electrons from...