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...brine wells; by only one enterprising producer, Dow Chemical Co.; and by only one method, electrolysis of molten magnesium chloride recovered from salt water. This is a chemical trick so old that it is known as a prior art and is not patentable. Last winter Trust-Buster Thurman Arnold's division of the Department of Justice sued Dow as a monopoly, but the chief reason that Dow had magnesium all to itself was that before the U.S. began rushing warplanes there was too little demand to inspire competition...
...Lexington, Ky., in the U.S. tobacco belt, Thurman Arnold's anti-trust prosecutors this week won the biggest criminal prosecution ever brought to court under the Sherman Act. The $1,000,000,000-a-year tobacco industry's "Big Three" and 13 top executives were convicted by a jury of monopoly, conspiracy and price-fixing. The list of those convicted looked like a "Who's Who" of the industry: > American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strikes) ; President George Washington Hill; Vice Presidents Paul M. Hahn and Vincent Riggio. Also convicted were American Suppliers, Inc. (an American subsidiary...
...Lambasted the Department of Justice's trust-busting Thurman Arnold for making "scurrilous attacks on labor in vicious articles and demagogic speeches...
...make a deal with A.F. of L., was perpetrating "intolerable conditions that have retarded the progress of this industry." Congressman Howard Worth Smith demanded that A.F. of L. and the labor division of OPM (Mr. Hillman) be indicted for conspiracy to defraud the Government. Justice's trust-busting Thurman Wesley Arnold pawed the ground. The Truman Committee in the Senate, investigating the defense program, got ready to charge...
...does seem a little inconsistent, however, that only a few minutes after this convention had resolved to purge the union of racketeering and crime, it should come out and demand the removal of monopoly mauler Thurman Arnold. For it was Mr. Arnold who reputedly suggested only two weeks ago the possibility of prosecution of the A.F. of L. for violating the anti-trust laws. It was he who said that O.P.M.'s Hillman was wrong to grant 300 Michigan defense houses to the A.F. of L., when the C.I.O.-organized Currier Lumber Company had bid $431,000 lower...