List Edges Higher in Week; Trade Lessens: Blue Chips in Fore, Dow Again Tops 900
NEW YORK, March 13 (AP)ÛÓBlue chip leadership returned to the stock market late this week and the result was that stocks posted a net gain.</br></br>Prominence or lower-priced issues of doubtful quality had raised some eyebrows on Wall Street recently but these issues faded in the last couple of sessions and stocks rose on a solid basis.</br></br>As the week ended, the Dow-Jones industrial average once more stood above the significant 900 level it has been a couple of times before. The question was how long the average would stay there this time, and whether it would progress much further beyond that line than it did before.</br></br>The Dow industrials this week rose 4.35 to 900.33. Volume this week was 27,789,-990 shares compared with 32,-085.770 the previous week.</br></br>Thinking was dominated much of the week by the huge issue of General Aniline & Film, whose 11,166,438 shares were bid for by competing syndicates. The fate of General Aniline had been pending since World War II.