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...sooner had the quotation gone over the ticker than an order came selling him ten shares at 30. He quoted again two points down and his bid was snatched at 28. He continued dropping his price, but like a hungry school of fish snatching at fat grubs, sellers snatched at his bids all the way down to 14. Then, fussed at playing sucker to his own game, he traded in and out at around 15 to stabilize his market. The bears let up. Broker Sykes's face was red. The traders knew, although he didn't, that Spalding...
Again, your article gives the impression that, because in Quebec and Montreal the crowds failed to yell hysterically and throw vast quantities of ticker tape and toilet paper -as happens in certain cities-their loyalty to Their Majesties was very cool...
...behind them in a big Cadillac, squired them under prodigious police escort up the West Side express highway (chosen over the Mayor's protest, instead of Broadway-Fifth Avenue because it was easier to patrol) in a triumphal journey much less uproarious than Charles Lindbergh's ticker-tape blizzard (see p. 20). Grover Whalen, resplendent in a flowing stock, received them at his Fair, where they were tootled around in a trackless motor train. Their own Empire's exhibits, including a copy of the Magna Charta, were their chief stops, being formal reasons for their...
Manhattanites will be given a chance to shower ticker tape and torn-up telephone books on Their Majesties...
...more logical explanation of the market break was just coming over the ticker -the hasty, fear-begotten British and French military alliance with Poland. Next morning, however, newspapers gave the Angas rumor part credit for dropping prices to within a hair of the January lows. New York Attorney General Bennett subpoenaed Boom Angas for a hearing. The florid Major blandly denied having sent any general wires since March 25. He said he had only a "diminutive influence" on the market...