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Show 800,000 IN ONE HOUR NEW YORK. Dec. 8. The force of the early break on Wall street came as a surprise and proved that the public had been In the market to a much greater extent than was generally supposed. sup-posed. The slump In the steel stocks showed how lacking was the support. Numerous stories were told to illustrate illus-trate the wild character of the market. One broker had an order to. sell COO shares of Amalgamated Copper if the price dropped to 65. At that figure he disposed of 200 shares, but sa rapidly did the price fall off that the best he could get for the remaining 300 shares was 63 and 624. Sales of stocks in the first hour were over 800,000 shares, probably the highest record for the first hour of business on the exchange. ' |