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...charge: that G.E. and its subsidiary, International General Electric Co., Inc., have conspired for many years to restrain trade through cartel agreements with six foreign firms. Allegedly violated were the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Wilson Tariff Act, which applies many Sherman Act provisions to foreign trade...
Last week came news that hard-riding Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr., in his moment of need, had put aside his pearl-handled pistols, taken up a pen, and appealed to a Higher Authority. Wrote he: "Almighty and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech Thee . . . to restrain these immoderate rains. . .. Grant us fair weather for battle. Graciously hearken to us as soldiers who call upon Thee that, armed with Thy power, we may advance from victory to victory . . . and establish Thy justice among men and nations. Amen...
...must restrain ourselves and our hotheaded brothers today. If we do not, there will be no union after the war. Restrictive legislation, worse than anything on the books, will be enacted...
...antitrust laws have long forbidden the formation in the U.S. of business associations which restrain trade. But the Webb-Pomerene Law, 1918, permitted the formation of export associations provided they do not restrain trade...
...days when paunchy Thurman Arnold breezily fired anti-trust suits, like howitzer shells, at U.S. corporations, he reserved a supporting machine-gun drumfire for corporate patent practices. His tracers indicated that many a U.S. corporation used patents to restrain trade, i.e., by mass research to make minor patentable improvements, thereby extending original patents far beyond their 17-year limits. Before Arnold could bring his heavy guns to bear, he was upped to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Many a U.S. businessman relaxed. But from his new vantage point, Justice Arnold last week shook them with another howitzer blast...