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Show PRICES IMPROVE ON WALL STREET Steels Alone Hold Back During Upward Climb of Mid-session Mid-session NEW YORK, Oct. 20 Relatively steady conditions prevailed at the dull opening of today s stock market inly a few issues of the speculative variety and obscure specialties, notably International Inter-national Paper and Union Bag, were materially lower. Mexicalt Petroleum soon advanced 14 points and several of the investment rails rose from fractions frac-tions to a point with sleels. equipments,' sugars, leithers. tobassos and local tractions. Foreign exchange reflected reflect-ed the deadlock In the British coal strike situation. lmrovein ut l-eeam.- n.or. cenerul during the morning, sleels alone holding hold-ing back. Under lead of Mexican Petroleum, oils rose l to points, motors 1 to W'n, equipments 1 ti J. and .shippings and utilities 1 to 'JV2-Shorts 'JV2-Shorts continued to cover their contracts con-tracts in sugars and the recent weakness weak-ness among chemicals was partly retrieved re-trieved by General Chemical's gain of almost five points. High grade and Junior Issues shared in the rise of rails with Union Pacific. Canadian Pacific, Pa-cific, Wheeling A Lake Erie prefl rred and New Orleans, Texas & New .Mexico .Mexi-co as the outstanding features Call money was unchanged at 7 per cent and exchange on London became firmer. The market became vers quiet and featureless at midday, save for conflicting con-flicting movements In the speculative groups. American Wooler. and Bethlehem Beth-lehem Steel were strongest of the prominent industrials, while United Fruit and International Paper developed devel-oped reactionary tendencies. |