Word: anti-trust
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...half-interest in Magnesium Development Corp. formerly owned by I. G. Farben. Alcoa, which owns the other half of patent-holding Magnesium Development, fabricator American Magnesium Corp., producer Dow Chemical and American Magnesium are up to their ears in an anti-trust action in which the Justice Department is alleging a plot to limit magnesium production in the U.S. Expected this week was a consent decree, to be signed by all parties...
Henceforth any anti-trust suits that interfered with production were out, for the duration...
Virkus made a big noise all through the corridors of WPB. Van Slyck quietly dug up the figures for his newspaper. Typical case cited by Van Slyck: some 120 small manufacturers got together as the Chicago Defense Association, Inc., lost three months getting their anti-trust clearance, financial status and ability okayed by Washington,.finally got a chance to bid on an $18,000,000 parachute flare order...
...Crimson insists on referring to ALCOA as a monopoly, it would seem only fair that it should add that a Federal Judge, Francis G. Caffey, after presiding over the anti-trust proceedings against the company, has ruled that it was not a monopoly, and thus allow the readers the opportunity of choosing their own authority. Roy Potter Perry...
...Association of Securities Dealers, was furious last week. Reason: an SEC lawyer, investigating disciplinary action by N.A.S.D. upon some of its members (who had breached a typical underwriting agreement) came up with the startling theory that such agreements might be in violation of Maloney Act provisions similar to the anti-trust laws. N.A.S.D., along with the rest of the Street, regards these underwriting and selling group agreements as the very heart of the investment banking business...