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...Ohio Division of Securities prohibited Northwest from soliciting shares in that state because of "indeterminate factors." Most important, the Justice Department intervened on the ground that the Northwest bid raised antitrust questions. The case promises to be a significant part of Antitrust Chief Richard McLaren's plan to challenge conglomerates (see following story...
Washington's first big salvo against conglomerate corporations came only last month. It was fired by the Justice Department, which announced plans for an antitrust suit to divest Ling-Temco-Vought of its controlling interest in Jones & Laughlin Steel. Last week, "multimarket" companies, as they prefer to be called, quavered again as the Federal Trade Commission took aim at a merger by another big concern, Los Angeles-based Litton Industries...
...interest last January. Their worldwide sales total some $52 million, but only $7.5 million comes from the U.S., where their Triumph-Adler brand of typewriters accounts for a minuscule share of the market. But the FTC complains that the acquisition tends to "lessen competition" in violation of the Clayton Antitrust Act because Litton already owns the Royal typewriter company, which accounts for 40% of the manual-and 11% of the electric-typewriter market...
...Hill, too, the conglomerates have come under increasing fire, and Congress is considering bills to end favorable tax treatment of the debentures that are often exchanged in conglomerate takeovers.* Rather than wait for such legislation, though, Attorney General John N. Mitchell elected to bring a test case under existing antitrust...
...have interpreted that law to forbid most "horizontal" mergers between competitors and, to a lesser extent, "vertical" mergers with suppliers or customers. But the courts have said little about corporate takeovers of companies in entirely different fields. Mitchell's chief trustbuster, Richard McLaren, plans to invoke the Clayton Antitrust Act's Section Seven, which prohibits corporate acquisitions that substantially lessen competition. He may well cite the anti-competitive potential of reciprocal purchasing arrangements, under which LTV subsidiaries, which use large amounts of steel, might favor J. & L. rather than go to the marketplace for the best deal. Beyond...