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Sugar Trust Hearings Highlight 1901 Price Wars
San Francisco July 2 Robert Oxnard head of the American Beet Sugar company testified in the government suit to dissolve the sugar trust. He described an 18 year pre trust bankruptcy rate of about 60 percent and detailed how California sugar moved via Missouri river routes to Chicago. He recalled price wars with the Havemeyers, shipment tactics to New York and strategies to protect surplus through future contracts and jobber agreements. The defense offered a letter about a 1901 trade reward, triggering objections from Assistant District Attorney Knapp and a tense exchange with Frank Crawford.
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San Francisco
Robert Oxnad
American Beet Sugar Company
Sugar Trust
Oxnard
Henry T. Oxnard
J. F. Searles
Combine
Oxnard Aala
Missouri River
United States
California
Chile
Colorado
Chito
Missouri
Chicago
American Sugar Refining Company
Wila
Havemeyers
New York
Galveston
New Orleans
Knapp
Frank Crawford
Crawford