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...sold, that would be horrid news to U. S. foodmen. That the New-Orleans handbill might be the opening gun in just such a campaign was the dizziest speculation that occurred to food manufacturers. Another was that the handbills were intended as a gratuitous slap at the Robinson-Patman Act (against price discrimination). After foodmen had stewed for a full week in these possibilities, A & P's President Hartford disowned the cat that had popped out of his bag. From Manhattan he ordered all A & P district managers not to duplicate the New Orleans' district manager...
...Congress, but there were others more specific. Representative Louis Ludlow of Indianapolis, hulking ex-newshawk who three months ago sent the Clerk of the House the draft of a bill with the request that it be the session's Bill No. -an honor which Wright Patman of Texas won at the last two sessions for his Bonus Bill-got it back all neatly printed. Before a battery of cameramen he marched up and dropped it in the hopper (see cut). It was free publicity for a pet project of the Fraternal Order of Eagles to have a Commission find...
...expected to pay the income tax, undivided profits tax, social security tax, the plus tax, the surplus tax and the nonplussed tax. The Robinson-Patman, Wheeler-Rayburn and What-Other-Senators-Have-You bills are all aimed...
...Banned by the Robinson-Patman Antiprice Discrimination Act is the old practice of charging a big customer less than a little customer unless the difference can be justified by actual savings on volume business. Everyone agrees that it is cheaper to handle a few large orders than many small ones but in a mixed business it is almost impossible to determine precisely what the saving is. To circumvent this legal and accounting problem U. S. Rubber Co. last week announced a novel method of meeting the Robinson-Patman Act. After the turn of the year a new subsidiary called...
...most confusing features of the Robinson-Patman Act is a separate criminal section which is inconsistent with the rest of the law and administered by the Department of Justice...