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Show oo IRON AND STEEL REPORT FOR WEEK New York. Feb. 9 Car builders placed liberal orders ;a.st week for steel bars plates and billets and some large similar contracts are still pe ng but fewer orders for rolling stock were placed. Contracts aie still pendlng for MMQQ to 60,000 cars ol which are llkel) to be placed the current cur-rent month. Orders for motive power continues unusually large Hail contracts con-tracts were light, only about thirty thousand tons Greater activity was evident In steel building work throughout the country. I the largest orders com:ug r:om manufacturing manu-facturing Piouu and cominercial buildings. Fabricating shops booked orders for about thirtv-two tho.sand tons although the productions ol .U inn, In Januarv established a new j"'-'1 record, the output by ;the merchant furnaces alone was lss than In March and April of Ml 5 verv light. Coke a?aln broke ... rents to a" cenS per ton. nn. - |