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All this made a hair-raising case history of what a cartel can do to restrain competition. But though Justice drew an ugly picture, it conceded that the world's total match business amounts to a mere $95,000,000 a year—less than the turnover of a single middling-sized unit of the U.S. steel industry. And the trust busters are apt to have a hard time getting the U.S. consumer excited about lack of competition in the sale of a product he is accustomed to get for nothing.
* Some time ago the Japs gave the cartel a lot of trouble: they solemnly renamed a Japanese town "Sweden," flooded the U.S. with "made-in-Sweden" matches.