WALL STREET: A Bull Market . . .

It was almost like old times. The stock tickers chattered merrily, brokerage-house telephones jangled, customers' men had customers to talk to, order clerks scampered about. At week's end fast-moving Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe was up 7½-points to a five-year high, Atlantic Coast Line 4, U.S. Steel 2¼, Du Pont 3¼, American Airlines 3⅛, Douglas Aircraft 3⅛ and Allied Chemical 4.

All told it was the most profitable week Wall Street has had this year. Six-day trading volume zoomed to 3,000,000 shares, highest since January (and about equal to an average day in 1929); the Dow-Jones industrial averages rose 2...

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