In analogy to the case ofhorizontalcombination, there are two modifications of the standard procedure.
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What this scheme envisages is, in fact, ahorizontalcombinationof the cotton industry which is already agreed by most people to be over stratified at present.
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One of the more unpleasant features of this grouping and amalgamation of the spinning industry is that it is producing horizontal combinations within the industry.
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What is wanted is something more in the nature of vertical combinations rather than in an increase in the horizontal combinations.
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Vertical combinations do not solve the problem of this industry, nor do horizontal combinations.
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