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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1960
Page
21
Fragmented OCR lists closing prices and tickers across many firms and sectors. Names like Sears, Penn, and Cushman appear amid scattered figures, with references to trades, indices, and individual stock movements.
Stock figures show modest gains and declines across sectors as market tape lists the Dow Jones averages with slight changes. Industrials and railroads show minor movement while utilities stay flat amid uncertain trading sentiment.
The Chicago grain market shows varied activity with wheat futures down from March levels and mixed prices for May and July contracts. Strong deliveries and cash bids appear for various grains and soybeans, while overall market sentiment fluctuates amid government and weather news.
Readable sections show multiple funds and accounts including Amcit fund, Crown, Keystone, and SICK with values like 12.68 and 16.18. Entries reference financial institutions, trusts, and bonds amid a dense ledger style listing names, figures, and dates spanning several lines.
Fragmentary OCR shows mixed letters and partial phrases about stocks, individuals, and numbers, including references to American Stock Exchange and multiple unreadable tokens. The readable items resemble ticker-like strings and stray names, with no cohesive narrative or clear event.
Fragmentary OCR of a historical market page mentioning livestock, oil, rail, steel and grain items. Names and figures are jumbled. readable items include references to Nat Steel, NY Central, grain prices, and various market entities. No clear event or narrative can be established from the legible text.
The stock market closed with mixed gains and losses across sectors. Early gains led by aircraft missiles and electronics on news of military orders and missile development, while oils and tobaccos declined. Lockheed rose intraday but finished modestly higher, Boeing gained, Douglas edged up, and Radio Corp slid, with Texas Instruments showing declines.
Space stocks posted fair gains amid weakness in steel and motor shares. Philco rose early before gains narrowed as transistor prices were trimmed. U.S. Steel led losses with others like Republic and Lukens down. Dow fell 4.85 to 602.31 as 532 issues rose and 458 declined.
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