Word: cartels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...representative of ruthless capitalistic monopoly and his struggle with the frigidity of his best friend's wife. Wazemmes and Haverkamp are still on the scene, wrapping their tentacles around Parisian real estate; and the sensitive liberal, Gurau, and his rationalized surrender to the corruption of the oil cartel. The two most interesting figures, however, are the young students, Jallez and Jerphanion, the one attempting to recapture the purity of his love for Helene Sigeau, and the other just emerging from the crises of adolescence and still struggling in the tolls of youthful lust. Both of them are seeking, amid...
...lawyer, came down from the North with a plan to get the whole world to cut sugar production, President Machado gave him practically plenipotentiary powers as representative of Cuba. With those powers Chadbourne argued the big sugar growers of the world to agree to world restriction. He got his cartel working just as Depression hit the world at large. When Cuba could stand no more Depression Machado was ousted. Last week was Chadbourne's turn. President Grau San Martin issued an edict ousting him from the presidency of National Sugar Exporting Corp., keystone of the Chadbourne sugar cartel...
...Wolff's, owned by the Continental Telegraphen-Compagnie and controlled by Berlin's banking firm of S. Bleichröder, has like France's Havas Service long been conducted as a semi-official Government organ. It served about 600 German papers, belonged to the cartel of international services which exchange news only among themselves. . . . The Associated Press is the U. S. member of this group. The Telegraphen-Union, serving 1,600 German papers, with 90 editors and some 2,000 correspondents, was considered to have even more complete coverage in Germany. In towns with two competing papers...
Depression hurt money-changing, so 35-year-old Banker Neidecker turned to goods and produce. Last year he bargained for Farm Board wheat to be delivered to his European cartel. Last month he announced the formation of International Commodities Trading Corp., Swiss-chartered, to barter among countries commercially hobbled by foreign exchange restrictions. Last week he concluded his first deal-an agreement to trade 1,000,000 bushels of U. S. wheat and a small amount of cotton for some $500,000 worth of Indo-China zinc and tin. The wheat will be traded on a basis...
...Shutdown. The International Tin Cartel (Malay States, Nigeria, Bolivia, Dutch East Indies) last week decided on drastic measures to cut the huge surplus supply. Production will be stopped entirely during June and July, resumed in August at 40% of capacity. Or, as an alternative, members may reduce their output 133% for June, July and August...