Word: cartelism
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...traffic will bear and, since all this transpires in Buenos Aires, the traffic is reasonably lively. Mr. Ford, meanwhile, develops a fierce protective attachment for his boss, Mr. Macready. He runs his dressy gambling hell for him, supersedes him in his fascist-minded control of a tungsten cartel, and hates Macready's wife-or so he thinks-like poison, for causing the great man to suffer. In the long run, she explains that she has misbehaved with half the men in South America not for the fun of it but purely to make Ford jealous, and that...
...that the blonde had better get educated. His choice of a teacher is a crusading young writer on the New Republic. From there on everything in the play is predictable, but piquant. The young woman, who defines peninsula as "that new medicine," is soon taught words like antisocial and cartel. Her mind sharpens, her conscience stirs, and her amorous inclinations shift. She and her tutor get the goods on Brock, then march off to be married...
...sunshine, their great news chains were hotly & heavily invading each other's domains. Reuters had signed up its 44th U.S. client. A.P. had picked up 20 new newspapers in Turkey and was expanding in Europe and India, once Reuters' strongholds. Amid the ruins of the 19th-Century cartel that Reuters had ruled, a free-for-all was shaping up. Boyish Christopher Chancellor faced a man-sized...
...announcement after another, the U.S. Army has liquidated that part of I. G. Farbenindustrie in its zone. Some plants of the globe-girdling cartel were actually destroyed. But others kept right on making civilian products. To Germans, remembering the resurrection of German big business after World War I, all this was hopeful. With few consumer goods available, they began buying Farben stock on the Munich and Frankfurt exchanges. In three months it high-tailed up from 68% of par to 141½, and then dropped back...
...still firm against fare fixing by I.A.T.A., had certainly won popular support. It had proved that free competition would bring lower fares than any I.A.T.A. devised cartel plan...