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...from a government bench leaped Deputy Punica Ratchitch, a nobody. Whipping out an automatic pistol, he leveled the blue-steel barrel at the leader of the opposition. "I'm going to shoot Raditch," he cried. "I'll shoot anyone who tries to stop me!" Instantly four ranking officials of the Croat Peasant Party rushed to fling themselves between the pistol and their leader. The secretary of the party stopped the assassin's first bullet. The vice president of the party, a popular Croatian author, took the second. The third and fourth were stopped with no less honor...
...everyone knows, U. S. steel makers may not combine to control the domestic market. They may combine, however, under the provisions of the Export Trade act (Webb-Pomerene law), to undersell foreign mills in foreign markets. Last week, the two principal producers, U. S. Steel Corp. and Bethlehem Steel Corp., controlling over 75% of the American export trade, proposed through their export subsidiaries* the formation of an association to market all U. S. iron and steel products abroad...
Surprised, financial writers recalled that the experiment had been tried before and had failed. Eight years ago, independent companies formed the Consolidated Steel corporation to handle foreign orders. American exports promptly declined. The corporation disbanded. But the alert writers also noted that the mighty U. S. Steel Corp. had not joined that earlier combine, is now uniting with other steel makers for the first time in its history...
Officials proving uncommunicative, it was permissible to conjecture as to the motive behind the unexpected move. The German iron and steel industry, it was remembered, has made a startling recovery since the War, has approached pre-War production levels. Pig iron production, which fell from 1,374,400 tonsf in 1913 to 404,700 in 1923, rallied to about 1,100,000 in 1927. Ingots and castings production in the same years dropped from 1,445,700 to 517,000, recovered to more than 1,300,000. Exports fell to 110,000,† rose in March...
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