Word: ticker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...item moving over the A.P. ticker alarmed the U.S. embassy staff in Bonn. Michael McGhee, 19-year-old son of the U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, George McGhee, had been arrested in California for driving under the influence of LSD. The embassy's public affairs counselor, Albert Hemsing, phoned Colonel George E. Moranda, 49, U.S. Army information chief in Europe, and asked him to keep the story out of the Army daily, Stars and Stripes-at least until the case came to court...
...rail-equipment orders, the Dow-Jones plunged 10.69 points-its biggest drop in three months. When the Fed's easy-money move came at midweek, it helped power the market to a 4.12-point gain in a trading day so turbulent that at one point the stock ticker was twelve minutes late...
...that assumption. Bache & Co., for example, has acquired a Univac 494 geared to a 20 million-shares-a-day market. When that day comes, it will be interesting to see how the New York Stock Exchange itself chooses to cope with it. On busy days, its two-year-old ticker already flashes stock transactions as fast as the human eye can read them-and yet this year it has run as many as 19 minutes behind...
...York Stock Exchange ticker rattled off a new quotation last week: "11 a.m. market down 1 cent, NYSE index 46.73 down 0.01." Thus, for the first time in its history and only after several years of on-and-off deliberation, the exchange issued its own index reflecting Big Board trends...
...deadline, he often does not sit down at his typewriter until 4. Late one afternoon, when asked when he was going to start writing. Reston replied that he wasn't an intellectual and did not need to sit around thinking. He was waiting, he said, turning back to the ticker, to see what the news...