Show Market Briefs NEW NEV YORK July 28 21 AP Compe AP-Compe- Compe Competition for control ot of the German oxygen market has reduced prices leSs 50 0 per cent says a wireless dispatch from Berlin the Oil Paint and Drug Reporter S Net income of S. S S. S Kresge company for the half year rose to from In the first half of ISIS 1925 equal to o a share on the common after preferred dividends against ashare a a- share a year ago I Extraordinary though the performance perform perform- ance of the steel Industry has been throughout July the fact that the week Is marked by an upturn In operations operations opera opera- brings a fresh surprise Iron Age says From an 83 85 per cent Ingot production pro pro- last week the tho steel corporations corporation's rate is now flOW 87 However because ot of the high temperature of three days finIshing finish finIsh- Ing mills did not hold up so well as steel making departments Thus new orders and specifications have somewhat outrun shipments and the corporations corporation's unfilled orders as of July 3 3 are to show a slight increase j The Iron Age pig Iron composite price remains at the years year's low point 1946 1046 per gross ton The finished tte l composite com coin price 2431 cents per pound likewise like like- wise Is unchanged 5 |