Business: Aluminum

The Aluminum Co. of America was again, last week, charged with being a monopoly. Last "year the Department of Justice investigated such charges and exonerated the company. This result displeased many members of the Senate. But, although the Senate Judiciary Committee found many points to censure in the company's methods, the Senate as a whole exculpated it of illegal tactics. This was last February.

In mid-summer the Federal Trade Commission was to make its own investigation of the supposed monopoly. But it postponed inquiry until Sept. 29, at Pittsburgh.

Meanwhile the wrath...

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