Word: ftc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end the Monopoly Committee rang down the curtain on insurance, will raise it again in the spring.* Next act: an FTC lecture on its long dealings with general business, to be followed by the Federal Alcohol Administration on liquor...
Commission to investigate publishers' complaints of newsprint price-fixing. Last week FTC submitted its findings to the Department of Justice without recommendations and without revealing details. It is now up to Trust Buster Thurman Arnold to determine what action, if any, should be taken against the industry, a question complicated by the fact that much of the industry is located in Canada...
...Jumped on Bloomingdale Bros., Manhattan department store. FTC ordered it to stop referring to goods only partially made of wool as "wool...
...Federal Trade Commission already has three basing-point cases in the works-against the Cement Institute, the United Fence Manufacturers Association and the Cast Iron Soil Pipe Association. Each of these complaints has charged violation both of the Robinson-Patman Act, forbidding price discrimination between customers, and of FTC rulings, forbidding price conspiracy between companies. Last week, for the first time, acting solely under the Robinson-Patman Act, FTC challenged gigantic Corn Products Refining Co.'s basing-point price setup, gave No. 1 U. S. producer of syrups and starch 20 days to file an answer...
...Created a new body to watch newspaper and radio advertising. FTC set up a Radio & Periodical Division to administer provisions of the recent Wheeler-Lea Act. Appointed director was an FTC trial lawyer with the extraordinary name of PGad Morehouse. PGad is a contraction of Peter Gad, given name of Mr. Morehouse's grandfather...