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...ITT affair...
...SOVEREIGN STATE OF ITT...
...American factories were assembling "Huff-Duff," the High Frequency Direction Finder used by the Allies to save their ships from German torpedoes. This is not one of Milo Minderbinder's fast-buck schemes from Catch-22. It is, in fact, a part of the corporate record of ITT, the American-based telecommunications conglomerate with worldwide interests as diversified as smoked meats and rental cars...
...sure, ITT's German equipment was under Nazi control, though, as Anthony Sampson argues, the company tried to conduct business as usual for as long as possible. In Sampson's view, ITT is not merely a multinational giant but a state within states, a moral chameleon that will do business with any complaisant regime and try to prevent the election of politicians who threaten the corporate interests...
...spiriting to Denver of ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard, whose memo had linked a lenient antitrust settlement by the Justice Department against ITT with an ITT pledge to provide funds for the Republican National Convention...