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Show NEW BRIEF FILED BY STEEL CORPORATION WASHINGTON", Sept. 27. In a supplemental supple-mental brief riled today, the United States Steel corporation asked the supreme court to decide the pending antitrust case brought by the government under the Sherman act on the basis of the situation in the steel industry growing out of the war instead of upon conditions twenty years ago. The case is to be argued soon after the court reconvenes on October 6. The corporation pointed out that in 1901 it produced 50.1 per cent of tiie steel, while in 1911 its proportion was onlv 4b. " per cent, and said that, despite its failure to have the suit decided before the war. the corporation had proceeded to expend enormous sums of money enlarging its plants, which enabled it to meet "everv requirement of the government to the end of the war." |