Word: cartels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Headache. Behind those figures lies a complicated story which revolves very largely around a product which most Americans take for granted-aspirin. Back in the '20s, Sterling gave up struggling against German competition in that product in South America and concluded a cartel peace with I. G. Farben by which Sterling's two subsidiaries, Sydney Ross Co. and Sterling International, became Farben's selling agents. This combination made Sterling a chief commercial aid to the Nazis after war broke out in Europe, because Sterling had also agreed to supply I.G.'s Latin American market...
Last week the R.A.F. tried what it had rejected. Ninety-four Lancaster four-motored planes bombed the Schneider-Creusot gun works (chief works of the famed French trust & munitions cartel) and the Henri Paul power plant in daylight. There was no fighter protection. Only one bomber failed to return...
...Standard's pre-Hitler contracts with I. G. were a purchase and exchange of manufacturing information rather than a cartel carving up world markets...
...Dame of the British Empire. His father was a Cabinet minister. After Eton young Lyttelton went to Cambridge. He married Lady Moira Godolphin Osborne, fourth daughter of the tenth Duke of Leeds. As an Empire businessman trained in London's City, Captain Lyttelton fathered the world tin cartel, became managing director of giant British Metal Corp...
Referring to two recent smear attacks, that against labor's 40-hour week and Standard Oil's prewar cartel agreement with German collaborators, Dr. Selekman contended that in both cases the real issues involved were obscured by "wrenching them out of their historic context and plunging them into the tense emotional atmosphere...