Word: ftc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaging are some of FTC's findings...
Last week the Federal Trade Commission announced it had issued a cease & desist order against Great Britain Spiritualist Church and its officers. (Among them: the widow of Mr. Colbert who died two years ago.) The FTC itemized its findings: "Grendeline Holy Oil is not a product of the Sibber tribes of India, and will not assure the users thereof health, wealth, happiness and success. . . . Mintolean Mojou Lucky Oil is not a product of African tribes or of foreign countries, and will not produce luck or have any effect on dice soaked in it. ... Dr. Colbert's House Dressing Balls...
...radio receiving set manufacturers sold some 7,150,000 sets, with a retail value of $225,000,000. Last week, on the application of this highly competitive industry, the Federal Trade Commission promulgated its first set of fair-trade rules. Some unfair trade practices proscribed by FTC...
...TIME, Feb. 13, in your Letters column Secretary Ickes disputes TIME'S reference to "International Paper Co., which once own stock in the Gannett Newspapers." He asserts that the Federal Trade Commission reported "the name of the firm is International Paper & Power Co." FTC said nothing of the kind. Its final report names International Paper Co. as the concern which, in return for a longterm newsprint contract, helped me to finance the purchase of three newspapers...
...familiar New Deal attack on Business last week precipitated a quarrel over a familiar New Deal paradox. The attack: FTC told the Monopoly Committee that the basing-point price system makes the steel industry "a focal centre of monopolistic infection which, if not eradicated, miy well cause the death of free capitalistic industry in the U. S." The paradox: The Administration's dual attitude toward Business-olive branch in one hand, big stick in the other...