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Show ASK DISSOLUTION OF HARVESTER COMPANY WASHINGTON", Feb. 17 The government govern-ment today filed its brief in the supreme court in the dissolution suit against the International Harvester company, its officers offi-cers and directors, appealed from the federal fed-eral court in Minnesota, which ordered the dissolution of the company. There is no such thing as a good or benevolent trust within the meaning of the Sherman law, the government contends, con-tends, and all combinations which break down the competitive system are in restraint re-straint of trade. The company's plea that three formidable formida-ble competitors, with a combined capital of $91,000,000, were engaged in the same business and afforded brisk competition and testimony relating to the contention are reviewed in detail. The competition thus afforded, the brief states, was "negligible," and the competition of all other companies combined left the defendants defend-ants In possession of approximately SO per cent of the trade, sufficient, It is contended, to constitute them a monopoly within the meaning of the law. |