Curb Exchange
Americannoun
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Last week the New York Stock Exchange and New York Curb Exchange suspended for insolvency the firm of Bauer, Pogue, Pond & Vivian�the seventh such suspension since the bear market began.*
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President of United Light & Power Co. since 1910, he resigned, lost a reputed $10,000,000 when his New York Curb Exchange bull pool in the company's stock collapsed in 1926.
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On the New York Curb Exchange one afternoon last week the 6% bonds of Baldwin Locomotive Works closed at 185.
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On the Curb Exchange, Courtaulds rose from 38� to 42�; the next day was a U. S. holiday so that Manhattan brokers could sit and watch the play that was going on in Throgmorton Street.
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To look at the solid building in Manhattan's Trinity Place that houses the American Stock Exchange, it would seem that the old days of the raucous Curb Exchange were far behind.
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