Word: anti-trust
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...recommending registration of agreements, the Council would not clip any anti-trust laws. U.S. companies could still be prosecuted if they failed to drop agreements which the State Department frowned on. And the State Department could revoke its approval of an agreement, any time it wanted. But U.S. corporations and businessmen would no longer be harried by antitrust laws, as they sometimes are now: they could not be indicted, under any "new" interpretation of the antitrust laws, for something they thought was perfectly legal at the time they...
...argument was premised on two facts: 1) the U.S. cannot break cartels by trying to force the Sherman Anti-Trust Act on the rest of the world; and 2) foreign businesses engaged in cartels are strongly supported by their Governments. Perkins believes that much of the U.S. righteous indignation about cartel agreements is phony; that this country not only basically wants cartels, but sooner or later "the pressure of circumstances will tend to make us accept cartels because other nations accept them...
...that medical society disapproval could do would be to cut down the number of doctors willing to take part. The Group Health Association case in Washington (TIME, April 14, 1941) established that any official opposition to group practice violates the Sherman Anti-Trust...
...more recent special U.S. court ruling on the anti-trust suit against the Associated Press (TIME, Oct. 18) brought into public focus the question of monopoly, and the allied issue of the press's bigness in chain operations...
...days when paunchy Thurman Arnold breezily fired anti-trust suits, like howitzer shells, at U.S. corporations, he reserved a supporting machine-gun drumfire for corporate patent practices. His tracers indicated that many a U.S. corporation used patents to restrain trade, i.e., by mass research to make minor patentable improvements, thereby extending original patents far beyond their 17-year limits. Before Arnold could bring his heavy guns to bear, he was upped to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Many a U.S. businessman relaxed. But from his new vantage point, Justice Arnold last week shook them with another howitzer blast...