Business: Triple Damage

Aluminum Co. of America has been damned as a monopoly, double-damned as a Mellon monopoly. It has been accused of attempting to buy up the world's supply of bauxite, of cornering the supply of scrap aluminum, of conspiring to fix the world price of aluminum. Latest and most vociferous of Aluminum's accusers is Baush Machine Tool Co., independent aluminum fabricator of Springfield, Mass. Baush lost a $9,000,000 damage suit against Aluminum in a New Haven court in 1933. Last year a U. S. Court of Appeals granted a new trial which was concluded...

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