Word: ftc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retail price of $9 a doz., wholesale of $5.60. To help finance its services, most of which are offered free, PGA sells golf balls through its members. The Golf Ball Manufacturers' Association includes many top-rank U. S. makers of sporting goods* and, according to the FTC, its members own or control almost every U. S. golf ball factory. Each member company in the association makes a number of balls stamped PGA which are usually of higher quality than balls bearing other names. In its complaint the FTC charged that the two associations deliberately executed eight such practices...
...Institute and 75 U. S. cement manufacturers, who produce at least 95% of the cement made in the U. S., of a nationwide system of price maintenance which retards recovery, adds to taxation and hogs unnecessarily large chunks of Government money released for building public works. According to the FTC, Federal and State agencies have been unable to get competitive bids in cement. South Dakota built its own cement mill as the only means of coping with the situation. The Tennessee Valley Authority got competitive bids only by threatening to follow suit...
...Those accused by the FTC: A. G. Spalding & Bros., N. Y.; John Wanamaker, Philadelphia; L. A. Young Golf Co.. Detroit; Worthington Ball Co., Elyria, Ohio; Wilson Sporting Goods Co., Chicago; U. S. Rubber Products, N. Y.; Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp., N. Y.; Acushnet Process Co., New Bedford, Mass...
...Hoffman, who on the side is president and half-owner of York Oil Burner Co., maintains that Mr. Atlas' "dynamic tension" is "dynamic hooey." Pressed for a definition of "hooey" at FTC hearings last spring, Mr. Hoffman with no hesitation explained that he had traced the word back to the Phoenicians "about 4,000 years before the Flood, not the recent Pennsylvania flood, but the Bible Flood." Then the word "hooey" meant "hoof." "In times of famine," continued Mr. Hoffman, ''it became necessary to eat all the parts of an animal. These parts were ground up into...
...based largely on a complaint entered last March by the Federal Trade Commission, which has spent two years, encouraged by the Brothers Mills, collecting 33,000 pages of scandalous evidence against the ice cream makers. Some methods used to discourage purchase of counter freezers, according to the FTC, were...