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  1. In US history, an act of Congress 1890, named
  2. after senator John Sherman (1823-1900) of
  3. Ohio, designed to prevent powerful
  4. corporations from monopolizing industries and
  5. restraining trade for their own benefit.
  6. Relatively few prosecutions of such trusts
  7. were successful under the act.
  8.