Word: anti-trust
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...operating costs at 12.9% (v. 19% to 21% for chains and 22% to 25% for most independents). As an economical method of distributing food, they got the blessings last week of not only Guernsey but also Corwin D. Edwards, who is in charge of the Justice Department's anti-trust investigation of the food industry...
...instance: "Umbrella Mike" Boyle. During the lush war years, Mike collected thousands of dollars in "insurance premiums" for guaranteeing that his Chicago electrical workers would not strike. He served two months (on a year's sentence) in the clink for conspiring to break the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. But last week he was still running the Chicago electrical workers...
...four systems expected by the Eastern railroads (New York Central, Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio-Erie-Nickel Plate), ICC proposed five-the fifth being a looping road-to-nowhere based on the Wabash and Seaboard. And instead of approving the Pennsy's expensive purchase, ICC began anti-trust proceedings...
...Commercial Attaché's door was the cousin of Brazil's Foreign Minister Aranha, wondering why his Navebraz shipping company was listed. Brazilian legalists asked whether Standard Oil's Brazilian subsidiary would sell gas to Condor. If not, would it run afoul of Brazil's anti-trust laws? If yes, would Standard blacklist its subsidiary? In Buenos Aires, annoyed and puzzled businessmen chiefly feared a rise in prices, since German firms usually underquote...
...Stone stood, and approved what it knew he stood for. New Hampshire-born (Calvin Coolidge used to run legal errands for his father), Harlan Stone had been dean of the Columbia Law School, was back in private practice when Calvin Coolidge made him Attorney General. He had barely begun anti-trust proceedings against Aluminum Co. of America when he was appointed to the Court in 1925. Attacked as a corporation lawyer, he turned out to be a solid liberal who was soon writing dissents with Holmes and Brandeis. He dissented when the AAA was declared un constitutional, supported...