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Posts published by “W.E. Reinka”

Tickled Ticker Symbols

Back in the days of stock ticker machines, stan­dardized company abbreviations or ticker symbols reduced the costs of quotations ticked across tele­graph lines. Although ticker tape was an early casualty to the electronic revolution, ticker…

Barbie Turns 50!

Guess who just turned fifty?  Barbie Millicent Roberts. Most of us know her simply as “Barbie.”  In 1959 Mattel stunned the Betsy-Wetsy toy world by introducing a doll with a grown-up shape squeezed into a…

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