At that time many ambitious companies acquired unrelated businesses at least in part in response to the strict enforcement of antitrust laws, which tended to make mergers between companies in the same field difficult.

• 那时许多雄心勃勃的公司接收了一些与其性质不同的企业，这种做法至少有一部分是针对反托拉斯法的，因为该项法案使同性质的公司难以合并。