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...Tennessean's tree. One day at noontime, Stevenson made his way along four blocks of Los Angeles' bustling Eighth Street, stopped strangers on the sidewalk, reached up to shake hands with truck drivers who had stopped for traffic lights, dropped in at a barbershop, paused at a fruit stand to buy an apple, which he munched as he moved on. In the garment district he crawled up on the back of a truck and spoke to the crowd, then sat at a diner counter and had a corned beef on rye, with mustard...
...Trustbuster Stanley N. Barnes prefers to win his victories over business monopolies by the polite method of the consent decree.* But in the 20 months since he filed an antitrust suit against the $390 million United Fruit Co., Assistant Attorney General Barnes has been unable to negotiate any settlement with the company...
Testifying last week at a hearing of the House Committee on Small Business, which (like Barnes) is chiefly interested in the plight of U.S. banana jobbers who depend on United Fruit for their supplies, the trustbuster reported that the company...
...company . . . and might easily be used by the Communists for propaganda purposes to damage the prestige of the United States," the hearings were secret; only Judge Barnes's testimony was made public. But other testimony leaked out. In it, jobbers gloomed that they are under the thumb of Fruit Dispatch. United Fruit's sales subsidiary. "There is no escape from
TRUSTBUSTER BARNES will soon announce more consent decree settlements in major antitrust cases being prosecuted by the Justice Department. Among companies negotiating for terms: RCA, United Fruit Co., Pan American-Grace Airways...