Word: cartelizing
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Textile manufacturers, squeezed between artificially higher cotton prices and OPA ceilings on their finished goods, protest that no cartel ever dared to manipulate supply and prices so brazenly...
...sources asserted that the U.S. as yet has set no postwar policy on tin. But a four years' supply-and the new U.S. tin smelter in Texas, which has an annual capacity in excess of 50,000 tons- would make potent weapons in dealing with the international tin cartel...
West Coast Congressmen charged down on WPB. From Washington's Senator Homer T. Bone came dark mutterings of an "international cartel" seeking to throttle the new industry. But the situation smacked less of an international cartel than of an international aluminum surplus...
...agencies for approximately ten years. They have been before several committees of Congress. . . . The action of the Department of Justice at this particular time in our war effort is difficult to understand." New Reason. There was ample evidence that the suit had little to do with the war. As cartel charges go, these were picayune. Even the favorite Justice Department theme, that cartels slow down the war effort, was soft-pedaled. And the Department readily admitted that the case would not be tried for a year or two, well after the war will presumably be over. Only in the light...
...deal has yet been made: the U.S. giants still righteously maintain that the only thing that keeps them from showing more British pictures is that there are not enough worth showing. Up to now, the cock-of-the-walk U.S. industry has had no reason to be cartel-minded, because it has had no really formidable international competition. But as Morris Ernst puts it: "Develop a giant to deal with a giant." If & when he can produce the pictures, J. Arthur Rank looks like a likely giant...