A German cartel sent a man across the ocean to threaten Herbert Dow in Midland, Michigan. If Dow kept selling bromine overseas, the cartel would flood the American market and destroy him.
The cartel controlled the world’s bromine supply and fixed the price at 49 cents a pound. Dow had found a cheaper way to pull it from brine and was already selling it in America for 36 cents. Then he started shipping it to England.
The Germans made good on the threat. They dumped bromine into the U.S. at 15 cents a pound, then 12, then 10.5 — far below their own costs. Other American producers couldn’t survive those prices.
Dow didn’t lower his. He had agents in New York quietly buy up every pound of the discounted German bromine they could find. They put new labels on it and shipped it back across the Atlantic, selling it in Europe, including Germany, at 27 cents a pound.
The cartel couldn’t understand why American demand stayed so high, or why cheap bromine kept turning up in its own markets. Some members accused each other of cheating on the price agreement.
They cut the price again. Dow bought more.
After four years, the Germans gave up and left the American market.
A cartel tried to destroy an American chemist with cheap bromine. He turned them into his supplier.
Indian nationals Prashant Gajera and Dharaben Davadiya were just convicted of carrying out a PayPal fraud scheme.
Davadiya had just arrived in the US within the last few weeks.
Only here for a few weeks and already committing fraud against US citizens...
Unbelievable.
Both were given a 5-year SUSPENDED prison sentence.
@ICE @StateDept should pay them a visit.
I’m literally in IOWA using the TOP TIER Lyft service, and I STILL can’t get a driver who can even REMOTELY speak English.
What the hell is going on?!?
100 million illegals is starting to sound LOW.
- I used to smell the bakeries throughout the town in the morning, now I get the lingering smell of kebab shops from the night before.
- The coffee shop was staffed by friendly Irish women, now I avoid it because I don't want a coffee from a 50-year-old man from Mumbai who insists on putting his hands on the mouth of the cup.
- Dunnes Stores used to be a lovely place to shop, because the staff were all local. But they're all gone now and it's staffed by strangers from the other side of the world who don't understand the meaning of the word "blaa."
- I used to know my local taxi-driver, but now all the taxis are driven by Nigerian Black-Axe Gang members and former members of the Taliban.
- Kids used to walk to school alone, but now they have to be dropped to the door of the school just in case a random man from Africa happens to be walking by and tries to kill them because he's upset about his dole being suspended.
- Children used to be allowed to eat sausages in creche and school, the Irish love pork. But not anymore, because that upsets the Muslims.
- When we thought about the future and where we might live, we didn't have to worry about competing against people from China or India. Why would we, we lived in Ireland.
- Our national holidays and holy days like Easter and Christmas used to be observed by the entire country, a moment of peace and tranquility. But now the Turkish barbers and vape shops remain open, they won't even give us one day.
- Remember when parks were safe?
- I never heard the word "White" used to describe Irish people, because we are all White, we didn't discuss race. Now I'm called a racist every few weeks in the Sunday papers and an elected TD called me a "White supremacist" in the Dáil.
- I remember a time when a Nigerian or Somalian calling themselves 'Irish' would have drawn ridicule on national TV, but now it's the status quo.
- I'm a native Irishman and I still live on an island called Ireland. But this place isn't Ireland anymore, and when I look at the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia, I see the exact same thing happening.
@WallStreetApes Interesting that Vance is married to an Indian, who are the biggest con artists, liars and cheats committing this scam on young Americans.
Thank you…have to keep going…..
Indians displaced 2 of my 3 children out of their STEM careers…after the displaced me!
I WANT PEOPLE IN PRISON OVER WHAT THEY HAVE, AND ARE STILL DOING, TO AMERICANS!
She just got there, dude. She doesn't have 'time in the Senate' and no one except the swamp (including you) wants to continue anything Lady Lindsey was doing. His eagerness to engage in wars and foreign conflicts got thousands of Americans killed.