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...exchange, even commodity experts wondered just what coffee-men had done wrong. If FTC hoped to prove that coffee traders had rigged prices last winter by sale of far-futures contracts, i.e., contracts made between November 1952 and October 1953 for coffee to be delivered a year later (see chart), it had only to look at the figures to see that there was no correlation. If FTC hoped to prove that current far-future prices, i.e., on contracts sold between November 1953 and October 1954, are affected by current spot prices, it would find a widening gulf over the past...
...decision that restricted Alcoa's further expansion, Federal Judge Learned Hand tried to set up a percentage chart. Said he: "[Over 90% of the market] is enough to constitute a monopoly; it is doubtful whether 60% or 64% would be enough, and certainly, 33% is not." But many another judge and businessman have disagreed. The confusion over bigness and monopoly started in 1890 with the Sherman Act, the forerunner of all antitrust legislation. Although the act clearly stated that any person "who shall monopolize" is guilty of a crime, it failed to define monopoly. Thus every merger...
...seems to be the cause. But once the wave gets going, its front gets steeper and steeper and the air in the wave may rise more than a mile in a few minutes. This causes a sudden rise of barometric pressure that shows as a sharp jog on the chart of a specially sensitive barograph...
...then tried to change the name. For 18 months two local papers complained about the "Air Force grab." When two jet squadrons moved in with a roar-angry petitions were passed around. Relations were at "breaking point" when Colonel Shoup went to work. First, he decided to take and chart all phoned complaints...
...office, where gross is running about 5% ahead of a year ago, and in moviemakers' net profits, which may reach the highest level since 1948. As a result, movie stocks have gone up faster in the past year than the Dow-Jones industrial average (see chart...