Word: cartel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was such a thing in prospect. If it is really going to stand on its own feet after the war it will have to be a wonder of low-cost smelting efficiency, for the Bolivian ore it will handle is strictly grade B, and the British-Dutch tin cartel is no mean competitor...
More than three years ago, TNEC made an exhaustive study of patents and monopoly. In their hundreds of pages of testimony and analysis, the cartel menace with which Arnold now salts his case was barely mentioned. But the patent system's dangerous "corrosion" of competition at home was made very real indeed. TNEC Chairman Joe O'Mahoney already has an other bill in the hopper to overhaul the U.S. patent laws. Chief proposed changes: 1) a much-mooted provision now almost standard in foreign patent laws, that the owner of a patent must license all comers who offer...
...come! said Jesse. The U.S.-owned stockpile was now some 340,000 tons, and Jones thought that was pretty good. It would have been even better, but the British-Dutch rubber cartel had turned the spigot on only a little way at first. The cartel did not want a "large stockpile that might . . . destroy the market...
Under the cartel, Germany got the benefit of U.S. technical developments; the U.S. did not get Germany...
Standard's ruddy-faced, Texas-drawling President William S. Farish replied for the company: the cartel began when Standard paid I. G. Farben $30,000,000 for patents on a German-invested hydrogenation process. The process, used in Germany to make synthetic oil from coal, was used in the U.S., by Standard and its licensees, to create the world's greatest supply of 100-octane aviation gas. A variation of the same process is now used by Humble Oil in a new plant which makes 30,000,000 gallons of synthetic toluol a year for TNT. The cartel...