Word: antitrusters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...view of Attorney General Francis Biddle and the Antitrust Division of his Department of Justice, the fact that General Electric Co., like other U.S. industries, was hip-deep in the problems of war production had nothing much to do with the case. Last week, the busy Biddle-men added a Government suit to G.E.'s frazzling production worries...
Likewise, U.S. businessmen announced again & again during the year that they like their own idea of free competitive enterprise better than international cartels, which have often constricted the world's economy. On this they should have found common ground with the Administration, which is vigorously prosecuting antitrust suits against match manufacturers, potash producers, etc. as cartelists. But some Government trade experts, studying international business prospects, were beginning to flirt with the idea that long-term agreements on prices and markets were necessary, especially if the U.S. is to compete effectively with western Europe. Others laid plans...
...owns 289 oil wells, 867 miles of pipeline, two refineries, two canneries, two sawmills, a feed mill, a soft-drink bottling plant, an insurance agency, a paint factory, etc. Another irritation to private business is the fact that marketing cooperatives are seldom prosecuted under the antitrust laws...
...Larry" Fly came to Washington in 1929 by way of Texas, the U.S. Naval Academy, Harvard Law School, and private law practice in Manhattan. He joined the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division under President Hoover. There he won national renown by defeating Wendell Willkie in the historic battle of the Tennessee Valley Authority v. Commonwealth & Southern. Said Willkie: "He is the most dangerous man in America-to have on the other side...
Further, charged antitrust, the foundation has maintained "unreasonable" prices so that those most in need of vitamin D have been unable to afford it. Berge's example: the cost of making vitamin D that sells for from $3.35 to $10.80 is 15?. Berge asked the court to invalidate the foundation's vitamin patents, and open the richly profitable field to all comers, thus bring prices tumbling down...