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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONOPOLIES: Next? | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

...Sherman Harper was reported to have seen her on the production line at United Carr fastener, Chris Kotthoff thought someone in the paint shop was she, but at last Johnny Paligraf's discovery in the stamping department of the Carr plant has been confirmed and passed upon as winner. It's reported further that he plans to take her to the class dance...

Author: By Jack T. Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 1/19/1945 | See Source »

Christmas was the turning point. As darkness fell the next day, a sentry spotted several U.S. Sherman tanks rolling down a ridge from the south. He alerted the outposts ; captured Shermans had carried Germans up to the lines before, and sentries had been shot down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Hole in the Doughnut | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...Break. Out of the leading Sherman's turret popped a bandaged head. The man with the bandage and the big shiner on his right eye yelled the proper password. He was Lieut. Colonel Creighton ("Abe") Abrams, commanding the 4th Armored Division's rescue spearhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Hole in the Doughnut | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

Against the German weapons were some new U.S. guns and tank-destroyer types still on the secret list, but the basic ground-taker was still the medium Sherman tank, carrying either a 75-mm. gun (outclassed by the 88-mm.) or 105-mm. howitzer. The Allies have nothing of comparable size to the Königstiger, consider such monsters too road-bound to be of great value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Tiger to Tame | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

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