Corporate expansion and consolidation between 1920 and 1930 meant that
A. the government was increasingly controlled by a few extremely rich "captains of industry."
B. bureaucratic management became increasingly divorced from stockholders
C. individual stockholders had more and more say in company management.
D. more and more antitrust actions were initiated by the government.
Answer: B
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