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Show POOL ACTIVITY 8 SINGLE FEATURE OP DULL MARKET War News Accentuates Upward Trend and Close of Session Sees Steady Gains; United States Steel Advances. NEW YORK, S.-pt. 26. A stock market of comparative dullness today was virtually devoid of feature except for pool activity concentrated on a few special Ifsucs. This buying, which became very marked in the afternoon sestdon. was noteworthy in American Ameri-can Steel Foundries, Baldwin Locomotive. American Ameri-can Car. American Locomotive. Railway Steel Spring and American Ice. Early heaviness, which li.iil its inception in a sharp decline In the Mercantile Marine issues after their period of initial strength, influenced prof it-taking sales elsewhere, but the reaction met H f-peedy check when Indications of support appeared for I'nited States Steel. That stock, after relapslnp almost a point to 10P:;(. forced ahead steadily and ended at ill',. I The session closed with jeneral upturn in I proprpss. I The pood war news nrcentuntod tlie rnllj ana the professional element who no Id etook earlier was disposfd to retire outstundinf; contracts whon it Lwiime eviient buy in g of a forceful character whj frolnc ou in rnits. A rnpid upturn in the Liberty bonds, coupled with farther advances in foreipn issues, mdubly Purls fin. which renched a new hlph fipnre nt 97 . flUo had a beneficial effect on Kenenil sentiment. The buying of the equipments was generally ascribed to proa-pec t a of largely in-er.-nsed earnings tn connection with ponding contracts. Sales amounted t .MI.OXK) Fhares. The penersl bond mhrket moved narrowly nnd uncertainly. Total sales, par value. J7.773.0i. Lnited State", bonds (old If sue. I were unchanged un-changed on rail, but the registered 4s advanced 4 of a point en fh les. |