Irregular List Includes Some Wide Moves: Rail Issues Show Gains
NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (APIÛÓCross currents ruled in a confused and irregular stock market today. The list was off slightly based on statistics.</br></br>While most key stocks changed narrowly there were some wide moves among selected issues, and most of these were on the downside.</br></br>Polaroid fell 9%, International Business Machines 6 and Texas Instruments 3. General tire, which in the previous session roared ahead 61* on news of its patent for synthetic rubber, dropped 3*4 in profit taking.</br></br>Rails moved upwards on average as Baltimore & Ohio advanced 2Vi. It was the last day for tenders of B&O stock to Chesapeake & Ohio for the proposed merger and the C&O said that a majority of B&O stock had been tendered to it. C&O advanced lii.</br></br>The popular averages diverged but the majority verdict was a lower market. The Dow Jones industrial average rose .95 to