Show Stocks Lean T Toward award Improvement Im for Third Su Successive Session CLOSING PRICES PRIES RETREAT A BIT e By VICTOR EUBANK Associated Press Financial Financil Editor Edior NEW YORK YORK April Apri 21 The 21 The stock market Tuesday e leaned ne toward improvement for the third successive session but top gains of fractions to around a point Inthe in inthe inthe the leaders were shaded haded by late laM P profit selling Steels aircrafts and ad rails rais displayed dis dis- dis played about the best bet climbing p pow power ower r in the te early proceedings Heaviness in American Telephone t tended ended to slow the recovery near the recover t the he final hour Transactions amounted mounted to about shares Foreign news had no particular bearing earing on price movements Speculative Spec contingents again engaged in rt lively conjecture a as to scope 5 and md direction of the administrations administration's ions tion's tons ton's forthcoming program for handling inflation Many market followers m meanwhile looked for 1 C opp ments opportunities to lighten commit commit- S Among the stocks carrying plus marks narks 3 most of the day were Genera General Gen Gen- eral trai era Motors Chrysler United r States Steel Bethlehem Montgomery Montgomery Mont Mont- 1 gomery omery Ward Douglas Curtiss- Curtiss Wright Boeing Westinghouse Manville Johns Union Carbide Carbide Santa Fe Southern Souther Railway Chesapeake Ohio and ad Great Northern Telephones Telephone's fractional dip was accomplished on a small smal line lne of selling sellig Action Acton on the te quarterly dividend is due early in May Allied Aled Chemical also suffered a relapse and was off as a much as a 2 points Brewster Aeronautical was active active active ac ac- ac- ac tive in the curb around Mondays Monday's final It I dropped M Monday on the navys navy's action acton in taking over the navys company's plants plant bec because use of dissatisfaction with the manage manage- ment Other curb stocks showing improvement im mi- provement t i included American Gas Creole Petroleum Fairchild Engine Engine En En- gine and Gulf Gul Oil Oi and Humble Oil Oi dipped |