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This 1966 document outlines the reasoning for the US Gov't breakup of AO & B&L Laboratory network of Labs

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1966 Civil Judgment against AO / B&L breaking up "monopoly on Labs

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1965 Ad showing 280 US Branches prior to the Court order

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