reading comprehension issue to user rsrikanth federal trustbusters began their long eventually futile attempt to break up morgan and schwab's creation new competitors including a company run by schwab quickly diminished the company's market dominance a hundred years after it controlled two thirds of the domestic market u s steel shipments account for about percent of u s consumption source steel standing u s steel celebrates years for anybody but a cretin with reading comprehension issues the above would constiute a valid citation supporting this article excerpt the federal government attempted to use federal antitrust laws to break up u s steel in but that effort ultimately failed time and competitors have however accomplished nearly the same thing in its first full year of operation u s steel made percent of all the steel produced in the united states one hundred years later its shipments accounted for only about percent of domestic consumption