Rubber, Rail Stocks in Van Of Sharp Drop
NEW YORK. March 12 <&).ÛÓ [ The stock market took a tumble today with prices down fractions to $1 a share. In a few instances issues lost as much as SI-2.</br></br>There was a brief spurt during the last minutes of trading but there wasn't enough vim behind it to boost prices into the gaining side of the ledger.</br></br>The Associated Press 60-stock average dropped eight-tenths of a point to 94.4, one of the sharper 1951 setbacks.</br></br>There was little volume attending the declineÛÓ1,640.000 shares compared with 1,610.000 on the previous full trading day last | Friday.</br></br>market has been hitting during the past week, which went down in the books as the slowest in six months.