Word: antitrusters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Small operators reacted violently against the big steelmen, the big coal operators, John Lewis. They called the whole contract a "conspiracy" between Big Labor and Big Business, callously contrived to squeeze out the small owners. The anxiety of the big operators over possible antitrust suits had been, in fact, one of the main causes of delay in negotiations...
...most U.S. railroads, the Reed-Bulwinkle Bill was a long-sought boon. It would exempt them from the antitrust laws. The railroads could agree among themselves on rates, as long as they were approved by the ICC. But to a handful of Senators, the bill was a camel's nose beneath the tent of antitrust legislation. They feared the whole camel would soon be inside...
Furthermore, the bill seemed certain to nullify the antitrust suit against rate agreements of Western railroads now being tried in Lincoln, Neb. Snapped the Louisville Courier-Journal: "It is hard to convince opponents of the bill that it is not an effort to beat the courts to the punch." The bill was the biggest step yet in the trend to free big sections of the economy from antitrust laws...
...House they spent most of last week moping through an old argument over the OIC bill for the spread of U.S. culture and ideals (TIME, April 14). On the floor, Senators spent their time in tedious debate over the Bulwinkle-Reed bill, which would exempt railroads from antitrust regulations. That is, the Senators who were there did. Attendance was seldom above 15; one day, the only audience Alabama's John Sparkman had was Maine's tired old Wallace White...
...companies are unofficially rationing their fuel-oil dealers and refusing to take any new customers. Last week they asked the Department of Justice to promise immunity from antitrust laws if they limited all dealers to their 1946 quotas plus 10%. The balance would go to the military and Government. The Department refused, saying it could be done without immunity...