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...enviable position: every one of its competitors pays RCA handsome royalties on just about every set they turn out. Though most of them are unhappy with the arrangement, they have been unable to do much about it. Last week the Justice Department decided to have a try, filed an antitrust suit in Manhattan's District Court...
...1930s, became one of the most potent forces in moviedom. The triumvirate's closely linked fortunes (they even pooled their incomes, drawing what they needed from a common fund) were partially severed in 1952 when 20th Century-Fox and the Skouras theater empire were divorced in a federal antitrust action. The promotional genius of the trio and for several years the nation's top-salaried executive (more than $800,000 a year before taxes), Charlie Skouras threw himself into public works with the same furious energy he lavished on his theaters, contributed to everything from Greek war relief...
...Eisenhower Administration, which does not view bigness in itself as cause for antitrust action, is nevertheless considering eight possible auto suits involving such things as dealer contracts, finance-company tie-ins and sales of parts. And under an Administration less friendly to business, any new boost of G.M.'s share of the market might well bring an all-out antitrust attack...
...peaceful Swiss were up in arms against the U.S. last week. The battle was touched off by the U.S. Justice Department, which filed an antitrust suit in Manhattan accusing Switzerland's watch cartel and U.S. watch importers of conspiring to control production and fix prices in the U.S. Reaching out across 3,850 miles to name Switzerland's proudest and most respected watchmakers* as coconspirators, the Justice Department charged...
...same U.S.-made movement) and parts is through the decades-old cartel. The Swiss not only control sales of their watches, they also control sales of their top-quality watchmaking machinery, thus restrict watch manufacturing all over the world. While such obstacles to competition are against antitrust laws in the U.S., they are not illegal in Switzerland...