Last week Anno Domini 1929 turned in its well-interred grave. The anti-trust laws in decades past have dispersed great corporations: Standard Oil, the tobacco trust, the sugar trust. But the anti-trust laws never stopped men from taking the advice given by every U. S. dollar: e pluribus enum. The mergers of 1929 carried that advice to extremes if not to absurdity. The ghost of 1929 had last week the grim task of watching 1933 prepare to do what the anti-trust laws had never done, and saw one of the gigantic corporations which 1929 had...
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