Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-21 | Page 14 | Closing Tone of Mart Firm

t t j f 1 5 CLOSING TONE OF MART FIRM Speculators Manage to Force Gains by Few Stocks 1 NEW YORK July 21 iT-By iT ff By con con- their efforts on issues whose earnings have held up rela well speculators for the advance advance ad ad- vance managed to chalk up a fe few gains of 1 to 2 points in Thursdays Thursday's stock market although the list as a whole refused to push through the upper resistance level of its July rading range The closing tone was firm The turnover approximated shares c I c C j 1 I I I I visa unu a lew specialties made substantial headway and ind some of the rails were given a boost joost on the strength of the promise of the Executives Executives' association to cooperate co operate to reduce expenditures Per 1 strength of bonds was helpful helpful help help- ful to shares but principal commodities ties failed to provide much encouragement The market closed close to the days day's jest best prices Shares up about 2 points included American Tobacco B Loew's Loews General Foods Beechnut Cola Coca Union Pacific and Norfolk Nor folk Western Issues up about a point Included Loose Wiles Liggett Myers B Reynolds B Seaboard Oil Standards of N. N J. J and California Califor nia Santa Fc Fe and Atlantic Coast Line United States Steel and Consolidated Gas finished fractionally higher but American Can and American Telephone Tele phone were barely changed