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Financial markets were practically at a standstill last week as a result of the approaching Easter holidays. On the New York Stock Exchange, where trading was suspended on Good Friday, prices moved narrowly and irregularly in slower trading.
The brief visit of the Syracuse baseball team to the metropolitan district ended with a 6-5 victory over Fordham yesterday at the losers' field in the Bronx as the upstaters scored two runs in the ninth. Beaten by New York University in their opening game on Friday, the wearers of the Orange were off to a three-run spurt in the initial inning and added one in the fourth.
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The sale of a $1,000.000 block of Chrysler stock for cash featured trading in yesterday's market in the New York Stock Exchange. Amounting to 19.882 shares at 50 1/4, it was the largest single cash transaction on the floor of the Exchange in three years.
ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 16 -- A strong wind from the north of increasing intensity whipped up the waters of the Severn and made it necessary to call off the Navy-Columbia rowing regatta this evening.