Turnover Continues Low
NEW YORK, Aug. 2 OPIÛÓRail shares rallied late Today, inspiring a slack stock market to produce enough gainers to make the pattern irregular instead of lower.</br></br>ÐÊ The upsurge by rails in the closing minutes was the drily outstanding feature in a session which was the slowest since Mar. 25 and.the narrowest since Mar. 22.</br></br>The tardy recovery was enough to put the list of pivotal stocks ahead on average but it was tooTate to change the fact that there were more losers than gainers among all listed stocks.</br></br>The carriers went ahead as conviction spread in Wall Street that the Interstate Commerce Commission was about ready to give the railroads their requested freight rate increase. There was talk, too, that the rails would ask for more of the same ' after the new inci-ease is granted.</br></br>Aside from this group action it was a dull performance. Nonferrous metals were dampened by ' Defense Mobilizer Gordon GrayÛªs statement that the Government will stop buying lead and zinc for the NationÛªs strategic stockpile. Aircrafts and chemicals were generally lower. Rubber shares were improved as prices for rubber products moved upward. Motors were mixed. Steels shaded.