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Clean Sweep. In 1938, the antitrust division of the Department of Justice set out to end such tie-in sales. It filed suit against Paramount, Loew's Inc.(M-G-M), RKO, Warner Bros, and 20th Century-Fox to have block booking declared illegal. But in the labyrinth of deals and counter-deals in Hollywood, the antitrust division found that it had to go farther. The same suit named Columbia, United Artists and Universal. It buttressed its case with suits against Griffith Amusement Co. (with theaters in 85 towns in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico) and the Stanley...
...with the Old. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the cement industry's basing point system illegal. It upheld the Federal Trade Commission in its eleven-year-old antitrust suit against the Cement Institute and its 74 member companies. Said the Court: "[The system is] a handy instrument to bring about elimination of any kind of price competition." In fact, said the Court, cementmakers had used the system to suppress competition by 1) boycotts, 2) price cuts (against plants refusing to play ball), 3) identical bids to cement users, and 4) opposition to the building of new plants...
Emich lost his dealership because General Motors ruled that he was doing a bad job. Emich charged that it was because he ran his own little financing company, which cut into the business of General Motors Acceptance Corp. Prodded by an attorney for the Government (which had started an antitrust suit against G.M. and their Acceptance Corp.), Emich sued G.M. for $435,000. He asked triple damages under the antitrust...
...steelmen were also likely to be on the Department of Justice's carpet. Suspicious of the uniform and almost simultaneous price advances, the antitrust division moved with unusual speed, prepared this week to find out why the advances had fallen into such a neat pattern...
Robert R. Young (Tues. 10:45 p.m., Mutual), the railroad executive, speaking against the forthcoming Bell bill (which would exempt railroads from the Sherman Antitrust...