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...might find what comfort he could in the news that, statistically, there is no acute match shortage. This year the U.S. will produce 460 billion matches (475 billion in 1944), using its own chlorate of potash instead of importing it, as before the war. But, practically, there is a shortage. Reason: the military has taken all the safety (penny-box) matches, and 35% of the paper-folder kind. U.S. civilians get what is left...
...announced again & again during the year that they like their own idea of free competitive enterprise better than international cartels, which have often constricted the world's economy. On this they should have found common ground with the Administration, which is vigorously prosecuting antitrust suits against match manufacturers, potash producers, etc. as cartelists. But some Government trade experts, studying international business prospects, were beginning to flirt with the idea that long-term agreements on prices and markets were necessary, especially if the U.S. is to compete effectively with western Europe. Others laid plans to try to impose the anti...
Borax Cartel. Seven companies, headed by British-owned Borax Consolidated, Ltd., and American Potash & Chemical Corp. and eleven individuals (four living in Britain) were indicted by a federal grand jury in San Francisco. The charge: violating antitrust laws by operating a worldwide cartel in borax. The antitrust division alleged that the companies controlled over 90% of the world supply (used for bombs, steel and copper alloys, etc.), most of which comes from California's Mojave Desert. The companies allegedly had kept prices skyhigh, had eliminated competition, and had hampered the war effort seriously. The antitrust action further charged that...
Diamond deals with Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie left the U.S. almost barren of chlorate of potash capacity, an essential not only of match making but of ammunition, when war broke...
...friend, Elwyn Potash, who now attends Harvard, testifies to that. Elwyn belonged to Mida Shipa Fraternity at Bowser. There were several other such fraternities such as Supplia Schools, Stata Tisha, etc. Altogether there were about 2,300 students at Bowser. With such a large student body, Elwyn had always felt that the Student Club must be rolling in coin...