Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Seats. With volume picking up, the value of seats increased. The low on the Stock Exchange was $390,000, the last $425,000, the all-time high $625,000. The last curb seat to sell was for $185,000, a gain of $45,000 over the low, but still $69,000 behind the high...
...Curb. On the New York Curb, which now boasts that 1,334 of its 2,260 stocks are dividend-payers, trading was far behind last year, with sales for the three months coming to 62,005,770 against 102,704,800. One source of worry to Curb brokers is the report that Sydney Zollicoffer Mitchell's Electric Bond & Share, which often accounts for nearly 10% of trading, will be moved to the "Big Board...
...modern & modernistic trading floor are 75 members. Nine are "specialists" in certain issues; six handle odd-lot transactions. Translux projectors give New York Stock Exchange and San Francisco Curb prices...
...frauds. The Boston Better Business Bureau was built up by Mr. Greene and now has over 600 members. Last fall they exposed the methods of Wrestler Gu's Sonnenberg. It has been especially active recently in routing out stock promoters; it put a quietus on many Boston Curb Exchange operators. Last fortnight it published a bulletin which contained some surprising firms and products which it flayed for offering stock with merchandise...
...writes about them. Unlike his books, he is brimming with youthful enthusiasm. Last September he married Miss Kate Smith of Chicago: they are now abroad. Other books: One Man's Initiation, Three Soldiers, Orient Express, Manhattan Transfer, Rosinante to the Road Again, A Pushcart at the Curb; The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc. (plays...