Trusts, Industrial

Cartels

Plastics, television, new chemical and electrical techniques are but a few of the instruments which will furnish the stuff for the pioneers of a new age. The challenge of housing will excite bold minds to action, on a scale never before attempted, to wipe out slums and give dw...

Chapters

1. Part 1

Plastics, television, new chemical and electrical techniques are but a few of the instruments which will furnish the stuff for the pioneers of a new age. The challenge of housin...

2. Part 2

The conduct of cartels before and during this war has been one of the tragic pages of our history. The shortages of aluminum and magnesium resulting from cartel restrictions for...

3. Part 3

In regard to the cartel involving Plexiglass, probably one of the most important plastics, and one which has innumerable military uses, the Rohm & Haas Company (Philadelphia) st...

4. Part 4

Because patents have become an instrument of power-hungry and power-seeking groups in industry, grave doubt now exists as to whether our economy can longer tolerate and permit t...

5. Part 5

The means of correcting patent abuses and of renewing competitive opportunity in industry are available in existing law and with relatively minor modifications in the scope of g...

6. Part 6

“Schering Corp. has an organization suited for national distribution and promotion of such preparations in the United States of America, and is equipped to manufacture such prep...

7. Part 7

“It is up to Ciba to take care in accordance with the several single agreements in the United States for a correct and clear basis of the agreements relating to the male hormone...

8. Part 8

The correspondence does not show whether any of the Snider products reached the market under false labels, but the Foundation’s concern in the matter is clear. The Foundation fe...

9. Part 9

“In reply to your letter of February 24th we are very much interested in modifying our contract with respect to the maximum and minimum provisions in the baking field. In fact,...

10. Part 10

From 1934 to 1939 International Products Corporation was a member of the Quebracho Pool, and by reason of its designation as an official pool agent for the United States gave up...

11. Part 11

The 1933 agreement further provided that each party was to pay a royalty to the other on the basis of titanium dioxide produced and packed by it. DuPont was to pay National Lead...

12. Part 12

Prior to the first World War Bausch and Lomb had been manufacturing military optical goods from glass imported from Germany. This had resulted from an agreement made in 1907. Ca...

13. Part 13

“Your last monthly report has given cause to the consideration that we surely would be better in a position to assist you _if you would report to us what kinds of instruments ar...

14. Part 14

“In all other departments we find the Zeiss competition keen and aggressive. Zeiss have established themselves in this country and have been for years making more and more inten...

15. Part 15

The Government charged that competition was restrained successfully by means of the joint companies in Canada, Argentina and Brazil, pointing out that because I. G. Farben was e...

16. Part 16

Attempts to amend the Act between 1921 and 1928 failed. Amendments proposed in 1928 would have extended the Act to include combinations for importation of crude rubber, potash,...

17. Part 17

Included in the chemical field was the synthetic rubber, buna. Under the agreements, therefore, it was a German-controlled monopoly. When the war broke out in September 1939, th...

18. Part 18

It is characteristic of many cartel agreements which are arrived at secretly and maintained in silence that concealment of their provisions is motivated by the desire to avoid s...

19. Part 19

The cartelist appears to believe that the way to engage in foreign trade is to have a conference--a kind of Alice in Wonderland mad tea party. At this conference the world is di...

20. Part 20

By and large, the antitrust laws can be effectively applied to combat restraints upon the domestic and foreign commerce of the United States whether the practices, agreements or...

21. Part 21