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Show . ! u - . l - w - u . j u J NEW YORK. March ' B.-Stocka broke badly today on the heavy outpourings of liquidation from all quarters.. There was a well centered bear attack on a number of stocks which , have become vulnerable by -the building up of extensive pool accounts ac-counts and manipulation In the' market. -r, The dissatisfaction over the money outlook, out-look, the continued withdrawal of the-banking the-banking rspj-v and the necessity of scal- lng down, credit accounts to keep pace with the declining reserves were responsible respon-sible for meet of the-scaling. 'j - .;. The unstable condition1 of stocks developed devel-oped last week.' caused ' widespread distrust dis-trust and was the cause for sending out large additional margina on speculative holdings. 'Failure to respond to these induced in-duced throwing over of some holdings by -cqmmidislon-houses.,.. ' - The offering down of prices by the bears had. tha effect of exhausting margins mar-gins and uncovering stop-loss orders. The welght.on the market was thus increased. Lenders of money adao exercised increasing increas-ing discrimination against some - stocks whose market position ' was -distructed when they appeared . In collateral for loan. ' , - . - - Reading was - especially weak and fell nearly 6 points below Saturday during the. morning. . Northwestern waa down 6 points. Northern Pacific, Amalgamated Copper and Sloss Steel S3. . Colorado Fuel 4U and Union Pacific, Illinois Central. Cen-tral. Delaware St Hudson, St Paul, Atlantic At-lantic Coast Line, Smelting, General Electric, Hide and Leather preferred and some others, from 3 to. 2. The average level In the while list yielded between 1 and 2 points. The occasional rallies in tha market were due to hasty, pro fit-taking by the bears by buying to cover. |