"Enoch Root" wrote in message
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Tim Douglass wrote:

Yeah, the manufacturers probably kind of banded together, although it
is unlikely that it was any sort of formal "freeze-out"
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Just look at the name of the legal research firm that provided the
"direction" for the industry. It's an industry in itself.

In addition, it's par for the course that there would never be any formal
"freeze-out". *Any* hint of something formal or documented and charges of
collusion would have them all in court costing them all fortune.