Food Price Investigation: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 - 740 páginas |
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action ADAMY advertising agencies AMPI anticompetitive Antitrust Division antitrust laws average BOOKEY brand buyers Capper-Volstead Act cereal Chairman RODINO Chicago Mercantile Exchange Commission on Food committee companies competition concentration concerned conglomerate Congress consumer cooperatives corporate costs dairy DENNIS Department of Agriculture economic effect egg producers enforcement ENGMAN exemption fact family farms farmers Federal Trade Commission firms food chains food industry food manufacturing Food Marketing food prices food products food retailing going Government grain HALVERSON HUTCHINSON income increase investigation JORDAN Justice Department KAUPER legislation livestock major marketing orders McCLORY meat meat packing industry merger MEZVINSKY milk million monopoly oligopoly operating Packers percent practices problem product differentiation profit purchase question result Robinson-Patman Act SANDMAN Secretary SEIBERLING selling share SILBERGELD soybean specific statement subcommittee sumers supply testimony Thank tion USDA Waldbaum's
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Página 573 - First. That no member of the association 'is allowed more than one vote because of the amount of stock or membership capital he may own therein, or, "Second. That the association does not pay dividends on stock or membership capital in excess of 8 per centum per annum.
Página 6 - Nothing contained in the antitrust laws shall be construed to forbid the existence and operation of labor, agricultural, or horticultural organizations, instituted for the purposes of mutual help, and not having capital stock or conducted for profit, or to forbid or restrain individual members of such organizations from lawfully carrying out the legitimate objects thereof; nor shall such organizations, or the members thereof, be held or construed to be illegal combinations or conspiracies in restraint...
Página 713 - Throughout the history of these statutes it has been constantly assumed that one of their purposes was to perpetuate and preserve, for its own sake and in spite of possible cost, an organization of industry in small units which can effectively compete with each other.
Página 714 - The dominant theme pervading congressional consideration of the 1950 amendments was a fear of what was considered to be a rising tide of economic concentration in the American economy.
Página 497 - SEC. 2. That if the Secretary of Agriculture shall have reason to believe that any such association monopolizes or restrains trade in interstate or foreign commerce to such an extent that the price of any agricultural product is unduly enhanced by reason thereof, he shall serve upon such association a complaint stating his charge in that respect, to which complaint shall be attached, or contained therein, a notice of hearing, specifying a day and place not less than thirty days after the service...
Página 716 - Under § 7, as amended, a merger can be invalidated if, and only if, "the effect of such acquisition may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly." No question is raised here as to the tendency of the present merger to create a monopoly. Our sole concern is with the question whether the effect of the merger may be substantially to lessen competition.
Página 335 - ... interstate business. Publicity is the only sure remedy which we can now invoke. What further remedies are needed in the way of governmental regulation, or taxation, can only be determined after publicity has been obtained, by process of law, and in the course of administration. The first requisite is knowledge, full and complete — knowledge which may be made public to the world.
Página 713 - Act was to prevent economic concentration in the American economy by keeping a large number of small competitors in business.
Página 497 - Agriculture shall be of the opinion that such association monopolizes or restrains trade in interstate or foreign commerce to such an extent that the price of any agricultural product is unduly enhanced...
Página 725 - That it shall be unlawful for any person engaged in commerce, in the course of such commerce, either directly or indirectly, to discriminate in price between different purchasers of commodities of like grade and quality...