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Show STOCKS AIDED DY GRAIN RISE List Climb Strongly, but Prices Recede During Lata Trading . e NEW YORK. Jan. 19 V The stock market wa. a little sturdier Thursday, deriving some strength from the action ac-tion of wheat. Several Issues rose s point or two, but there was same recession from the best in the lata trading. The final tone waa steady. Transfer, were only about 650,000 shares. After a ateady opening, stocks pushed up rather strongly for a time. Soon after the opening of the Chicago Chi-cago wheat market, where prices rose about a cent a busheL The shara market mar-ket waa highly professional, with short covering appearing to account for most of tha buying. Some of the industrials and utilities sagged In the last few minutes, but rail, bald up fairly well. American Tobacco B roaa more than 2 point., then lost about half its gain. Advance, of a point or so In such iesues a. Allied C hem leal. United Aircraft and U. S. Steel common, com-mon, were virtually lost and Consolidated Con-solidated Gaa slid off a point under the previous close. Woolworth, weak feature yesterday, lost a fraction, but National Dairy waa ateady. Among issue closing about 1-2 to 1 point higher were New York Central, Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, Union Pacific, Santa Fa, American Telephone, Westinghouse, Case, Du Pont. Liggett & Myers B, and U. S. Steel preferred. |