... and then the other double-checking the work. Stock price quotes were not 15-minute delayed (let alone realtime), but worked off of the price printed in the previous afternoon's San Francisco Examiner! Were he alive today, granddad would be celebrating his 113th birthday. He died in 1969, the year after the NYSE daily volume topped 20 million shares for the first ... ...

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