Word: cartels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oppenheim theory of history in suggesting that Sir Basil Zaharoff was once regarded as the power behind the Service, that it "was not altogether ignorant" of the true reasons for the mysterious deaths of Alfred Loewenstein and Prince Radziwill. Their attempt to form rayon companies and a European steel cartel menaced the industries of the clay-headed colossus...
...prideful pointing. He never has. The most conspicuous thing about Mr. Weber and his company is secretiveness. He has never made a public speech, written a paper, submitted to an interview or posed for a photograph. His company has never joined either a trade association or a cartel or the NRA or a chamber of commerce. He had no bankers because he never needed them. The chemical industry is necessarily mysterious business but, with Allied's brilliant dictator, mystery was almost a fetish...
...Malaya and Dutch East Indies are the gainers. When cocoa rises 1½¢ per lb. from its year's low of 4¼¢, as it did last week, native growers all along Africa's west coast rejoice. The fact that tin is being held tight by a tight-fisted cartel at 52¢ per lb. means steady employment in Bolivia, Siam, Nigeria, Dutch East Indies and the Malaya States. When silk rises from its Depression low to its price last week of $1.20 per lb., Japan can and does buy more scrap steel from the U. S. Sugar...
...other piece of news need to be "interpreted"? He cannot do better than consult that powerful journalist, Francois de Wendel, who owns a majority interest in Le Journal des Debats, is the head of the group that in October, 1931 (jointly with the Comite des Houilleres, the coal cartel), purchased the semiofficial newspaper of the French government, Le Temps, controls the Journee Industrielle, and is a power in the management of Le Matin and L'Echo de Paris. Yet for all the illustriousness of this multi-sided man, the newspapers of France almost never mention his name. He does...
...Comite des Forges is not as it has frequently been called, the "French Steel Trust." It is not a cartel. Individual French iron and steel companies are bound together by rigid agreements covering quotas and prices in to great groups like the Comptoir Siderurgique de France or into lesser ones like the Comptoir des Rails or the Comptoir des Demi-Products. The Comite cannot be said to "combine" these organizations; in actually, however, it remains the most powerful iron and steel organization in France. It does not sell; it does not produce. Its activities are more subtle, more delicate than...