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...into noncompetitive markets. ¶ Restricting production. ¶ Fixing prices on matches, match machinery and match chemicals. ¶ Suppressing the manufacture of new "everlasting" or re-ignitable matches. The U.S. defendants, headed by big Diamond Match, were told (and agreed) to divest themselves of each other's stock, get rid of interlocking directorates...
...Federal Government tried to get rid of the missions last November by refusing to act as a procurement agency. But the missions simply bought in the open market. Since V-J day, only three small missions, out of a total of some 115, have gone home. And as the British Government tightened its grip on foreign trade, there were few signs that any other governments were going to stop centralized purchasing. U.S. foreign traders thought they knew what the U.S. should do. The Export-Import Bank, said they, should make no loans unless foreign trade is returned to private hands...
Wherever the West faced the Russians, its moral position was weakened by the embarrassing fact of Franco. Geographically and historically Fascist Spain was a responsibility of the Atlantic powers. If they could not get rid of the anachronism in Madrid, time might bring an opportunity for renewed Russian intervention, far to the west of the present Russian sphere...
...their time trying to stick their little boneheads into drinking fountains so that they drowned; getting up at 4 o'clock in the morning; bears and cougars; syphilitic Indians; drunken Indians who once paid her a threatening visit when she was alone at night; Author MacDonald got rid of them by grabbing a gun and shouting in her fright: "Shi'll oot!" [I'll shoot! ] which she thinks must be Indian...
...abortion in the Helwig herd of Jerseys and the impotency of the Green bull." " 'Drop up some evening with six dollars,'" said the abortionist, " 'and I'll fix you good as new. . . . Took care of Mrs. Smith when she was six months along and got rid of three for my own wife at three months. Just a plain old-fashioned buttonhook...