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Addyston Pipe Company, organiza-
tion of, 78; purposes of agreement,
82; practical construction and opera-
tion, 84; effects upon the public, 89;
the Supreme Court decision, 533
Agreements. See also Pools. Price,
453; traders', under Sherman Act,
551; international steel, 862
American Agricultural Chemical Com-

pany, and German potash pool, 818
American Bridge Company, 167
American Sugar Refining Co., the
Knight case, 506

American Tobacco Co., 269, 592
American Tobacco Co., early history,

269; plug tobacco war, 270; plug
tobacco combination, 271; financiers
enter, 272; the Consolidated Co.,
277; internal revenue tax profits,
278; merger in 1904, 281; general
policy, 282; present organization,
284; capitalization, 286; secret
controls, 288; proportional control,
296; foreign policy, 298; profits of
British campaign, 308; results of
dissolution, 313; successor com-
panies, 318

Amoskeag Corporation, xviii
Anti-Trust Law. See Sherman Act
Asphalt Combination, original forma-
tion, 439; later concerns, 442; im-
proper promoters profits, 448.
Associations. See Pools. Trade, under
Sherman Act, 551

Atlantic Seaboard, steel competition,

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Bond Conversion. See Chapter VII
U. S. Steel Corporation, 228
Book Publishers', German Kartel, 739
British-American Tobacco Co., 310
British Tobacco Campaign, 298; com-
pany law, 760

Capitalization, Steel Corporation, 184,
198; tobacco company, 286; Mer-
cantile Marine Co., 369; U. S.
Leather Co., 376, 391; basis of, in
Germany, 774

Carnegie Steel Company, 169, 187
Cartell. See Kartel

Central Leather Co., 389, 397

Cigar Combination, 275. See Tobacco
Clayton Act, 715

The

Coffee Valorization, 551
Combination. See Sherman Act.
steel industry, 97; potential in steel,
152; tobacco industry, 269; sole
leather, 272; ship building, 403;
asphalt, 439; under common law,
451; the Sugar Refining Co., 506;
Addystone Pipe, 78, 533; Watch
case, 655; Beef, 673; explosives,
673; law concerning, in Germany,
736; in Austria, 742; in France, 747;
German steel, 833; German potash,
795

Common Law, price agreements, 453;

trusts, 465; monopolistic corpora-
tions, 471; U. S. Supreme Court
outline, 475; Standard Oil citation,
561
Competition, cutthroat, 113; potential
in steel, 152; in harvesters, 347
Consolidated Tobacco Co., 277

Conspiracy, 654. See Monopoly,

Sherman Act, Unfair Practices, etc.
Copper, French corner, 751
Corner, 551

Corporation, holding, xix; British
Act, 760; German, 774

Corporation. See also Holding Com-
pany, at common law, 471; new Eng-
lish law, 760; German, 774

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Federal Incorporation, xxxii. Federal
License, xxxii

Federal Steel Company, 170
Foreign Trade, steel, 132; in harvesters,

343, 639; in watches, 663; German
policy, 862

France, law concerning monopoly, 747
Fraud, prevention of, in England, 773
Freight Association, cases, 572
Freight Rates, and price of salt, 20; on
corn and whisky, 39; of nails before
combination, 48; under wire-nail
pool, 58, 63, 68; on steel, 105, 159
Freight Rebates, 112

Gary dinners, 178

German Steel Syndicate, natural con-
ditions, 834; production by districts,
836; early combinations, 839; first
Kartell, 841; Stahlverksverband,
843; structure and functions, 845;
price policy, 851; internal conflict,
859; defects, 861; export policy, 862;
international pools, 866; renewal in
1907 and 1912, 832

Germany, law concerning monopoly,
736; promotion of companies and
valuation of assets in, 774; formation
of company in, 777; balance sheets
of companies in, 788; stock exchange
law, 791; potash Kartel, 795
Good Will, 335

Great Britain. See British
Great Lakes Touring Co., 672
Great Northern Ore Lease, 176

Harlan, dissenting opinions, 516, 582,
598
Harriman, 497. See Union Pacific
Holding Corporations, xix, 492

Immunity Bath, 550

Imperial Tobacco Co., 304

Industrial Combinations. See Com-
bination

Injunction, 716, 729

Integration, in steel, 158

Internal Revenue, spirits, 23; and
tobacco profits, 278, 316
International Harvester Co., promotion,
324, 634; proportionate control, 333,
647; capitalization and investment,
334; good will, 335; subsequent ac-
quisitions, 336; foreign business
segregated, 339; profits, 341; effi-
ciency and resources, 344; competi-
tive methods, 347; dissolution deci-
sion, 634; dissenting opinion, 643
International Mercantile Marine Co.,
356; Fluctuations in net earnings,
361; ocean freight rates, 365; pro-
motion, 368; faulty arrangement of
the capital, 369

International Salt Company, 21
Intimidation, 660. See Unfair Practices

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tion, 201; Mercantile Marine Co.,
356; discussed, xxvii. See also Capi-
talization

Pacific Coast, steel competition, 110
Patent Pools, xiv; 604, 606; rights
of patentees defined, 618; National
Cash Register case, 695
Pittsburg District, competitive condi-
tions in steel, 107
Pennsylvania Railroad, 499

Pools. See Kartel. Historical growth
of, xiii. Michigan Salt Association,
1; whisky, 26, 27; wire nail, 46;
recent iron and steel, 72; steel rails,
72; billets, 75; iron ore, 76; 551;
patent, xiv, 552; judicially con-
demned, 604; under European law,
736
Potash Syndicate, early agreements,
798; recent agreements, 803;
newal, 815; new legislation, 821,
825; American controversy, 823
Pottery, French combination, 752
Preferred Stock, 389

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Prices. See Sherman Act. Under
wire-nail pool, 58; under Addystone
Pipe Co., 89; of steel, 116; steady-
ing steel, 126; cut prices in steel,
127; Gary dinner agreements, 178;
tobacco, 313; under common law,
453; bathtub practice, 607, 613;
under patents, 611; competitive,
only reasonable, 617; for watch
cases fixed, 664

Profits, salt manufacture, 16; whisky
trust, 40; early wire nail, 47; Irregu-
larity of, of Cunard Company, 361;
U. S. Steel Corporation, 220; British
tobacco campaign, 308; of Harvester
Co., 341; of promoters in Germany,
782
Promotion Profits, xxiii; Steel Corpora-
tion, 203; International Harvester
Co., 324, 634; International Mer-
cantile Marine, 368; U. S. Ship-
building Co., 404; asphalt companies,
439; in Germany, 774; in England,
762

Prospectus, issue of, in England, 764;
of United States Shipbuilding Com-
pany, 195

Prussia, in potash pool, 804
Publicity, of prices, 119; steel corpora-
tion policy, 173; in Germany, 774;
in England, 760

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Restraint of trade, at common law,
561; European law, 735

Rule of Reason, 570; applied con-
cretely, 604

St. Louis Terminal R.R. Association
Case, 495

Sanborn, dissenting opinion, 643
"Seconds," 611

Secrecy, xxvi, 288. See Publicity
Shelby Steel Tube Company, 174
Sherman Act. See Chapters XV, XVI,
XVII, XVIII. Text, 484; Con-
gressional history, 486; uneven en-
forcement, 488; freight associa-
tion cases, 489, 572, 586; Northern
Securities decision, 491; St. Louis
Terminal case; 495; Union Pacific
case, 497; anthracite coal cases,
502; New Haven dissolution, 503;
Knight case, 506; Addystone Pipe
case, 533; Hopkins case, 546, 573;
Anderson case, 548; later cases,
1901-11, 550; Standard Oil deci-
sion, 552; the standard of reason,
569; Steel Corporation decision, 97;
Tobacco Co. decision, 592; first
two sections construed, 559; the
English Common law reviewed, 561;
Supreme Court decisions reviewed,
572; rule of reason applied, 604;
Keystone Watch case, 655; Great
Lakes Towing Co. case, 672; Na-
tional Cash Register case, 672;
amendments of 1914, text, 703; Text,
Trade Commission Law, 704; Text,
Clayton Act, 715

Snuff Combination, 274, 293
Soda, French cartell, 749
Speculation, evil of management, xxv;
leather stock, 379

Standard Oil Co., Supreme Court
decisions, 552; early history, 553;
the trust agreement, 555; Ohio dis-
solution, 556; New Jersey holding
corporation, 557; the standard of
reason, 569, 571; Supreme Court

decisions reviewed, 572; conclu-
sion of facts, 577; the remedy, 581;
dissenting opinion, 582
Standard Sanitary Man'f'g Co., 606
Steel, proportionate control in 1911,
99; Atlantic seaboard conditions,
104; Pittsburg competition, 107;
Pacific coast conditions, 110; de-
velopment of processes, 154; ex-
pansion and integration, 158; trans-
portation changes, 159; German
syndicate, 833

Stock, Intercorporate owning, xxii;
ownership in tobacco trust, 287;
exchange between railroads, 499;
intercorporate forbidden, 720
Stock watering, 201. See Overcapi-
talization

Sugar Combination, xvii, 466, 506

Tariff, salt, 20; and nail pool, 54
Taussig, 834

Tennessee Coal & Iron Company, 176
Tobacco Combination, 269; Supreme
Court decision, 592
Tosdal, H. R., 795, 833.
Trade Commission Law, 703
Trans-Missouri Freight Association
Case, 489

Trusts. See also Industrial Combina-
tions, as devices for combination,
xvi; in Massachusetts, xvii; whisky,
22; 31; under common law, 465;
Standard oil, 553; under common
law, 465

Underwriting. See also Promotion of
Steel Corporation, 203
Unfair Practices, xxix; rebates, 112;
cut prices, 113, 605; absent in har-
vester case, 653, 655, 673;
hibited by Clayton Act, 707
Union Pacific-Southern Pacific Cases,
497; dissolution plans, 498
United Asphalt Co., 442

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U. S. Leather Co., sole leather condi-
tions, 372; tanneries and bark lands,
374; capitalization, 376, 391; causes
of failure, 379; first reorganization
plans, 381, 385; valuation of bark
lands, 384; entry of the Armours,
387; final reorganization plan, 389;
timberland surplus, 392; market
quotations, 395; litigation, 398;
charter modified, 400

U. S. Shipbuilding Co., incorporation,
403; offer of promoters, 404; accept-
ance by company, 407; purchase of
subsidiary plants, 408; working
capital of, 415; misleading pro-
spectus of, 416; value of the plants,
418; excessive price paid for plants,
422; causes of failure, 428
United States Steel Corporation. See
also Steel and Combination, 97; pro-
portionate control, 99, 222; no
rebates, 112; fair dealings, 113;
open prices, 116; steady prices,
124; foreign trade, 132; U. S.
Steel Products Co., 133; diversity of
products, 142; original monopolistic
intent, 152, 168, 173, 183; origins,
169, 203; subsequent acquisitions,
174, 214; ore leases, 176; Tennessee
Coal & Iron Co., 176; the Gary
dinners, 178; capitalization and
assets 1901, 184; the Hodge suit,
189, 231; ore properties, 194, 218,
226; overcapitalization, 198; pro-
motion and underwriting, 203; assets
1910, 216; profits, 220; the bond
conversion, 228; valuation in bond-
conversion suit, 242

United States Steel Corporation Bond
Conversion, plan offered to stock-
holders, 228; injunction against,
230; ground on which injunction
granted, 233; charge of fraud in,
236; charge of discrimination in,
238; valuation of assets, 242;
alleged "strike" suit, 248; extent of
conversion, 257; results, 258; gen-
eral criticism, 263

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