After achieving an American monopoly by 1830, Astor got out of the fur business before its decline.
Nor is Russia the only country trying to break the American monopoly on navigation technology.
We lead in supercomputers; microprocessors and software are virtually American monopolies.
What has prompted all this ferment in one of the last great American monopolies?
I believe that both of these things are merely and broadly human, not American monopolies at all.
But other countries see the system as an American monopoly, intent on reinforcing its dominion.
But for other countries, it seems to be an American monopoly.
Mostly, however, this is the story of Stalin's race to end the American atomic monopoly.
As far as we are concerned, the problem is not whether information will be controlled by American or European monopolies.
The right thing to do was to act to break the American monopoly.