Tube Sales Plummet on News of Stevens Indictment
July 29th
Long-standing Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens was indicted today on federal corruption charges. Among the Senator’s more quotable statements was this doosy:
They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
Elsewhere on the market, big truck futures were up in heavy trading.
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