GOVERNMENT: How Bad Is Big?

In Atlantic City last week, General Electric's broad-shouldered President Charles E. Wilson rose to grapple with the toughest problem confronting U.S. big business. The problem: How can big corporations make long-range plans to expand, provide more jobs and produce more goods in the face of the Federal Government's determined attempts to break up bigness?

"There is not a shred of actual evidence," Charlie Wilson told an electrical dealers' convention, "that bigness has been an evil force either economically or socially. No company and no industry has yet been big enough to bring...

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