All along Wall Street last week, the bulls were tossing their horns. The market went up for five straight days. The Dow-Jones industrial average climbed almost 14 points to close at 458.47, well above the low point reached in the drop caused by President Eisenhower's heart attack; rails went up 2.98 to 151.45, while utilities edged up 1.03 points to 62.51. Though investors were still cautious, the reason for the optimism was not hard to find. From dozens of companies came record third-quarter earnings reports.
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