Word: antitrusters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort to allay suspicions of monopoly, and to demonstrate that competition can flourish even in a one-ownership newspaper town. Last week Scripps-Howard's Ohio stronghold was under Government siege. In a suit filed in Federal District Court in Cincinnati, the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division demanded that the Enquirer be severed from Scripps-Howard's 18-paper chain...
...Enemy. In challenging Scripps-Howard's monopoly in Cincinnati, the Justice Department passed over many likelier locales for an antitrust suit. Newspaper monopolies have become the rule rather than the exception in the U.S. Competition exists in only 52 of the 1,434 towns that publish daily newspapers. And where competition has vanished by merger, it has rarely been permitted to survive in spirit, as it does in Cincinnati. In Memphis, for example, another Scripps-Howard monopoly town, the two papers share the same plant and the same ad salesmen...
...code, like the health surveys that inspired it, is largely conearned with protecting young people. The companies began discussing a possible code even before the Surgeon General's report on cigarettes and cancer-but not until they had discreetly checked with the Justice Department to win antitrust immunity in this case. Some parts of the code, such as the elimination of cigarette advertising in college newspapers and a halt to the distribution of samples on campus, have already gone into effect. Other portions of the code cover general advertising, for which the industry has been spending some $200 million...
Indictment of the millers pointed up the fact that the trustbusters seem to be savoring the food industry: 24 antitrust cases against the industry are now under way, and 46 others are being investigated-amounting to more than 10% of all antitrust cases...
...Trustbuster Orrick contends that last week's suits were routine and signified no tougher policy on his part. But businessmen complain generally that U.S. antitrust policy is a vague and antiquated crazy quilt that has been haphazardly stitched together over the last 75 years. They fear that Orrick will be emboldened by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision fortnight ago to break up two big mergers-one between a pair of banks in Lexington, Ky., and the other between two pipeline companies-even though the deals already had the approval of other federal agencies. And they considered even...