Word: diamang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, he brought antitrust charges against famed De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd., its diamond-selling subsidiary, Diamond Trading Co. Ltd., Belgium's "Diamang" and "Forminiere," world's biggest diamond miners, and five other British, Belgian and Portuguese companies. Together they supply 95% of the world's diamonds...
Commander Ryan promptly said that he owned only a small block of stock, that he had nothing to do with running the companies. Another defendant, Herbert H. Vreeland of Manhattan, director of Diamang and Forminiere (also board chairman of Royal Typewriter Co. Inc.), died two days after the charges were filed...