Word: tipstering
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Trouble was that the barbers and bakers were fair game for tipsters and touters. When rumors went around that the Italo-Suisse company planned to build a pipeline from Genoa to Switzerland, its shares zipped from $138 to $229 in a few days. Last week they worried off to $176. Last fortnight the most aggressive tipster service. I.F.A.S.. rode up the stock of Motor Colombus by 10% in a single day simply by reporting-with no fact or explanation-that it would jump sensationally. Last week the stock lost half its 10% gain, and at least one other hard...
Last week a tipster ("He called himself 'ABC' ") led Trimble to the story that New York's freshman Democratic Representative Ludwig Teller had an aide named Mrs. Sylvia B. McNamee (Government salary: $13,334) who ran a private insurance business out of his district office in New York City...
...source can no longer rely on his anonymity--and there are contempt citations stiffer than ten days in jail--he is likely to refuse to talk. Unidentified sources are often vital to the coverage of governmental affairs. In an era of bureaucratic hush-hush the anonymous tipster has become a must for responsible reporters. To close his mouth is, in many cases, to deny the public valuable and necessary information...
Sporting Life is the arbitrator, critic, memory and chief tipster of British racing and other gambling sports. Sporting Life reporters at every track decide the starting odds by which bets are settled all over Great Britain, impartially provide all trainers with tips on the opposition. They answer some 11,000 queries a year on everything from saddle sizes to 19th century Derby results. Circulating 60,000 copies a day (at 4½? a copy), Sporting Life is as essential as the Times to the "well-britched people" who control or patronize British racing; eight copies go to Buckingham Palace...
Downwind. In Jersey City, police got a phone tip from Kenneth Thompson, 21, of a tavern robbery by a "good-looking guy," confirmed the theft, tracked down handsome Tipster Kenneth Thompson...