Word: ticker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selling orders American Rolling Mill opened at $15.50 (down $4.75), closed back at $20.25. Trading volume in the first two hours was 3,890,000 shares, by day's close had reached 7,287,080, greatest since 1933. Fluctuations were the widest since 1929. At one point the ticker was 22 minutes behind, traders many minutes behind that as orders stacked up at the posts...
...market letter" went out that night predicting a thumping bull market in Manhattan next morning. Instead, to the confusion of prophets, railroad stocks and most others fell like a load of corncobs dumped from a hopper car. In heavy trading for a half-day (1,570,000 shares), the ticker lagged four minutes behind and order clerks went hoarse as prices dropped as much as ten points. U. S. Steel thudded to a new low of $52.50, New York Central to a low that day of $18.38. Bonds were under heavy fire from selling and grew cheaper & cheaper...
...takes approximately half an hour. Ordinary electrodes are pasted on the top, front, and back of the patient's head, while "indifferent" electrodes are connected to his ear lobes. He then lies down, shuts his eyes, thinks about anything, and "lets his brain rattle," Mrs. Davis says. A wide ticker proceeds to emit from an enormous machine, and this ticker contains the brain waves...
...returned from their holiday, a first-class European crisis burst on the front page. Apparently it caught Wall Street at a psychologically vulnerable moment. The market was thin, the selling persistent. Routed from its long rut, the trading volume soared to 1,870,000 shares, and at times the ticker was as much as three minutes behind the floor. When the closing bell bonged that day 385 stocks had touched bottom for 1937, and all three Dow-Jones stock averages had reached new lows for the year, industrials being off 8.16 to 164.39 as against a 1937 high...
...European survey with $150,000 worth of krypton extracting machinery purchased abroad, to which he expects to add some refinements of his own. President of Duro-Test is a small, jovial Jew named Maxwell Monroe Bilofsky, who is a member of the New York Stock Exchange and keeps a ticker running in his downtown office. Dr. Bilofsky, who has no great love for his gargantuan competitor, General Electric Co., claims that General Electric-which has affiliations with Philips of Holland-has done its best for years to keep krypton lamps out of the U. S. Dr. Spielholz believes that...