Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wall Street jumped nervously, as it often does when the talk is of war and peace. At one point, the ticker ran eleven minutes late on the New York Stock Exchange as the sell orders flooded in. Between noon and 1 p.m., nearly 1,400,000 shares had changed hands, and prices went down as much as 4.98 points on the Dow-Jones industrial average before the market got its equilibrium back...
...soft as starshine can be focused on one end of a six-inch glass tube, where it knocks electrons loose from a photosensitive layer of cesium and antimony. The free electrons are whisked to the opposite end of the tube by powerful electrostatic charges and they hit the far wall with considerable energy. The collisions build a picture on a phosphorescent screen, a picture that is 1,000 times brighter than the original. Picked up by a TV camera and projected on a TV picture tube, the scene can be brightened still more...
Died. Ira Haupt, 74, one of Wall Street's better-known stockbrokers, who began as a runner at 13, was a member of the Stock Exchange at 24, built a thriving brokerage house with ten offices across the U.S., and used his wealth to grow orchids and, with his wife, Seventeen Editor and Publisher Enid Haupt, collect French impressionist art; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...Tokyo Exchange sees no fewer than 100 million shares of stock change hands. The trail blazer in this phenomenal growth of stock ownership is a jovial, pipe-chewing kabuya (securities broker) named Tsunao Okumura, who has fought public apathy, occupation forces, and the power of Kabutocho, Japan's Wall Street, to educate the Japanese public in the benefits of owning stocks...
Bryher's small, shapely book, like the handful of minor historical classics in which she has previously sought to trap various troubled and far-off times (Roman Wall, Beowulf), is nobody's guidebook to the important events of a historic day or decade. But it offers the details and textures of a particular age so pervasively known and felt by the author that it does not have to be clumsily insisted upon as scholarship. The figures who move in Bryher's historic landscape are neither makers nor victims of history. They are men, seen small, but with...