Aircrafts Up Late in Day
NEW YORK. Aug. 17 (.?)ÛÓA promising stock market rally fizzled into irregularity today on dwindling volume.</br></br>Sales of 1,720,003 shares were the lowest since July 2 and compared with 1,790.000 yesterday. With only 1094 issues traded it was the narrowest market since last Nov. 11.</br></br>In flurries of activity spaced throughout the early part of the session, steels, rails and coppers went ahead. At their best, pivotal issues made gains of 2 points or better.</br></br>By the close, however, the range of gains among the leaders was pared to about a point or so. Losses went about the same distance except for some special situations where they were wider.</br></br>Some aircraft issues awoke late in the session to make sizable advances as Glen L. Martin was heavily traded on the official word of big contracts it has received in the intercontinental guided missile field and other activities. This stock headed the most-active list.