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Commission to investigate publishers' complaints of newsprint price-fixing. Last week FTC submitted its findings to the Department of Justice without recommendations and without revealing details. It is now up to Trust Buster Thurman Arnold to determine what action, if any, should be taken against the industry, a question complicated by the fact that much of the industry is located in Canada...
...Cracked down on 18 leading U. S. tire companies. Charging price collusion in submitting identical bids for Government contracts, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold sued the 18 for $1,053,474.63. Like the Government's crackdown on cement and threatened crackdown on steel pricing policies, the action was symptomatic of the New Deal's current conviction that rigid industrial prices are the basis both of monopoly and of continued hard times...
Leon Henderson, Isador Lubin and Willard Thorp (TIME, Dec. 12). Shortly thereafter Thurman Arnold's Department of Justice trucked across the floor waggling a finger at patent monopoly in the glass container industries (TIME, Dec. 26). Last week it was the turn of SEC Chairman William O. Douglas. As everyone knows, Bill Douglas is a very agile fellow and when he revealed that his dancing partner would be the insurance business-far too dignified for Big Appling-everyone knew it would be fun watching...
Unless the A. M. A. was looking for a test case, Washington, right under the nose of the Department of Justice, was a bad place for heat on-turning. Last October Assistant Attorney General Thurman Wesley Arnold, in charge of monopoly investigation, haled the District Society before a grand jury because he believed that boycott of the G. H. A. violated the "Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The jury, which included salesmen, executives, engineers, a brewer and a taxicab driver, listened to about 100 witnesses from Washington hospitals and medical organizations all over the country. It learned that the District Society...
...Washington, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold filed a brief explaining why the eight major motion picture companies, named last July in the Government's suit charging violation of the anti-trust law, were not entitled to a bill of particulars...