Word: cartels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Variety reported in January that the Justice Department's Antitrust Division was investigating pending Rank deals "in the belief that the first world cartel" in motion pictures "may be in the making." Last week the Antitrust Division denied that any such investigation was under...
...agreement placed a flat ban on "collusive cartel" deals. This was an important concession from the British, whose policy in the Middle East restricted production on several important concessions and tied up markets in western Europe and India in prewar days...
...Diamond. Besides Fairburn and five other match kings, this week's antitrust action named the five top U.S. match producers (starting with Diamond and all allegedly controlled by it) who account for 83% of all U.S. production, plus two British, one Canadian, and three Swedish companies. This cartel, charged Justice, controls some 75% of the world's match business (the Japanese* and the Russians handle most of the rest). Its members have divided up the world among themselves and, except in rare spasms of greed, scrupulously refrain from trespassing on each other's preserves...
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...