Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first moderate voice raised last week was that of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, the old hero of Zeebrugge and British special attache to King Leopold, who was with him up to the hour of surrender. Said he: "I trust that judgment will be suspended on a very gallant soldier until all the facts are known." Prime Minister Churchill agreed...
...some of his three-star letter writers. So he gave a banquet for them. At the old Hermitage Hotel last week Evans welcomed them to the second annual Three-Star letter writers' dinner, which he called "a happy evening of disagreement." Said Publisher Evans: "You are the brain trust of the Tennessean...
Last week Bausch & Lomb pleaded nolo contendere (I won't argue), offered to consent to an injunction against carrying out any provisions of the Zeiss agreement which might violate the anti-trust laws. The court accepted the plea, slapped a $40,000 maximum fine on the firm and three of its principal officers...
...frying pan, Bausch & Lomb promptly fell into the fire. With 13 other U. S. makers of eyeglasses, five wholesalers, three trade associations (virtually the entire U. S. optical industry), it was accused last week by the same Federal grand jury of another anti-trust law violation. With its fellow defendants, the Government claimed, B. & L. had conspired successfully for the last ten years to keep the cost of eyeglass frames and lenses unnecessarily high. Government example: spectacles which would bring a profit at $7.50 are sold at a fixed price...
...Like Agfa-Ansco in the U. S., controlled by I. G. Farbenindustrie, German dye trust...