Word: cartels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...monopolize trade between Atlantic Coast ports and the Far East by setting higher rates for customers who did not give them all their business. In another suit, it accused Decca Records, Inc. and its British counterpart, Decca Record Co., Ltd , of trying to divide world markets by "conspiracy and cartel agreements" in violation of the antitrust laws...
Widow's Mite. As the dowager empress of tin, Albina will not have as easy a time as her ruthless husband in his heyday. Through the world cartel he created with the British and Dutch (in 1930), he could squeeze the Unless, smelterless U.S. (which normally consumes more than half of world tin production). But in World War II, when Simon was too friendly with the Nazis for British comfort, the cartel came apart. Alarmed, Patino tried to get back into U.S. good graces. Later, Chase National Bank's Vice President Joseph C. Rovensky became chairman...
...hopes to keep the world cartel from reforming. Moreover, since the richer Malayan mines can turn out better ore at lower cost than Bolivia, Albina has no assurance that the British would want it. But the U.S. is in no position to fight tin producers...
...market so tightly wrapped that it 1) got more than $46 million of last year's $62 million total sales, 2) imposed production restrictions on American Viscose Corp.'s Sylvania division, its only competitor in the U.S., and 3) divided the world market with a four-nation cartel. Sonnett asked the court to make Du Pont sell enough plants to permit competition. Du Pont denied...
...been invented in 1931 by Dr. Ferdinand Ringer, a Viennese chemist. It was bought up for $400,000-and filed away-by the late match king, Ivar Kreuger. Subsequently, Dr. Ringer came to the U.S., and when a federal court broke up the remnants of Kreuger's old cartel in 1946, the match was again available...