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...patent pools, which are taboo in peacetime, are essential for the close integration of industries needed for big-scale war production. Last week came the first sign that antitrust prosecutions would again be eased up-or perhaps shelved completely-as they were during World War II. Lanky, eager Herbert Bergson, 44, the U.S.'s most vigorous trustbuster since the early New Deal days of Thurman Arnold, resigned...
...years as head of the Justice Department's antitrust division, Bergson had filed 135 suits, including those against Aluminum Co. of America, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. and the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. (TIME, Sept. 26 et seq.). He has won 80 of his cases, lost only seven. The rest, including the big ones, are still pending. But lately there have been hints that Bergson would have less & less to do. One hint: When the Government decided to build the hydrogen bomb, it handed the big job to Du Pont. Washington no longer seemed...
Same day, in Philadelphia's federal district court, Antitrust Chief Herbert Bergson went after a small company which had closely held patents: Servel, Inc., sole maker of U.S. gas refrigerators. Charged Bergson: Servel has a monopoly on gas refrigerators, through exclusive licenses from Sweden's Aktiebolaget Electrolux, founded by International Financier Axel Wenner-Gren (TIME, Jan. 5, 1948). Bergson asked the court to break up the patent arrangement. Servel's Chairman Louis Ruthenburg retorted that his company already competed with "a dozen large manufacturers aggressively in the market with refrigerators of all types, sizes and prices...
...Fresh Appraisal. Bergson had gone after small companies before (e.g., part of Philadelphia's live fish industry). But his major strategy had caused even such Administration stalwarts as Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer to worry, with Charlie Wilson and other businessmen, about the effect of antitrust's attacks on the U.S. economy. As chairman of a Cabinet-level committee which includes the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission chairman, Sawyer had sought for months to "clarify" vague antitrust procedures', so far with little success...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. noon, CBS). Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution...