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...Toronto Exchange has less than half as much floor space (9,000 sq. ft.) and fewer than one-tenth as many members (109) as the giant New York Stock Exchange, 67% more shares were traded there in 1955 than on New York's Big Board. Many days the ticker trailed the trading by as much as ten minutes (record: 45 minutes); many nights brokers' staffs worked around the clock to clear the decks for the next day's avalanche of orders from investors in Canadian and U.S. cities to which the Toronto Exchange is linked by more...
...collecting delinquent taxes and not at halting subversion. They were not planned and directed from his Washington office (TIME, April 9), said Brownell, but by Manhattan's Internal Revenue Director Donald R. Moysey. Like other Washington officials, Brownell added, he learned about the raids from a news ticker...
Onto the New York Stock Exchange's big ticker screens one morning last week flashed a cryptic legend: "F 135 62." Immediately, the cavernous trading room erupted with cheers and popping flashbulbs. The symbol "F," unused since Consolidated Vultee Aircraft gave it up two years ago, now belonged to the Ford Motor Co., which at 10:02 a.m. on Wednesday began its first day of stock trading on the big board...
...last day's trading of the week, the market came back with a rush after Edgar Eisenhower predicted that his brother would run (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). As a surge of confidence swept through the Street, the market took off. The buying was so lively that the ticker fell behind again and again. By day's end the Dow-Jones industrial average had risen to 7.44-the greatest jump since Nov. 14-and reached...
...plane. The next day, the weary and worn father rode in an ambulance with his son the 115 miles to a Chicago hospital, where the boy's mother met them. From all over the U.S. had come messages of sympathy. Wired Dwight Eisenhower: "Distressed to read on the ticker that your son John has been seriously injured. I send you my most prayerful hopes that he will soon recover." Wired Stevenson's rival, Estes Kefauver: "Terribly sorry to hear of your son's accident. My prayers and thoughts are with...