Multiple Choice
The Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) had a monopoly until the 1940s because
A) it was a public enterprise.
B) it had a patent on the manufacture of aluminum.
C) the company had a secret technique for making aluminum from bauxite.
D) it had control of almost all the available supply of bauxite.
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