Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power: Hearings Before the Temporary National Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Seventy-fifth Congress, Third Session [-Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session] Pursuant to Public Resolution No. 113 (Seventy-fifth Congress) Authorizing and Directing a Select Committee to Make a Full and Complete Study and Investigation with Respect to the Concentration of Economic Power In, and Financial Control Over, Production of Goods and Services ...

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Freedom of business opportunity
88
33
89
Extent of corporate activity
95
Importance of corporate activity by branches
96
Size of enterprise measured by assets
103
Limitations on measures of size
109
Clusters of large enterprises
115
Employment records of industry members
125
Variety of trade practice problems
131
Extent of chain organizations
138
Letterdated Dec 13 1938 from G S Quay vice presi
142
General shifts in the economy
144
Letter dated Aug 15 1933 from F C Ball president
148
The impact of invention
150
Copy of a letter dated Sept 20 1933 from Arthur
151
The need for continual adjustment
156
Copy of a letter dated July 3 1935 from W A Nester
157
Basic assumptions of American competitive capitalistic system
167
Decline of competition
170
Excess of savings over new investment
177
Schedule and summary of exhibits_ III
185
Distribution of employees and employers by size
229
From the National Recovery Administration report of
235
Index I
252
CONTENTS
252
Statement of Page
252
Number and summary of exhibits
253
Automobile Manufacturers Association Inc statement
302
Control of an industry through patents
381
Major intercompany relations in glass container industry
383
Schedule of royalty fees of the HartfordEmpire Co
396
Revision of figure 17 of Exhibit No 112 by F Goodwin
403
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410
Patents in the glasscontainer industry
437
The largest glass producer in the world
474
Copy of a letter from William E Levis to R H Levis
481
534
491
Copy of a letter dated June 8 1935 from A L Romine
517
The specialty glass field
640
Glass fiber and wool
657
Schedule and summary of exhibits_ VVIII
669
661
712
Index
835
Bush Vannevar president Carnegie Institution of Washington
846
Monopoly of patent a benefit not in conflict with antitrust laws
846
Procedure in examination of patent applications
848
Purpose of patents the enlistment of capital and labor in new enter
857
Assignment of patents to corporations by employees
865
Introduction of new ideas into industry
871
The interference practice
880
Patent pools
887
Bearing of patents on standard of living
894
Need for single court of patent appeals
900
Proposed single court of patent appeals
906
Value of scientific research
916
History of Jones Lamson Tool Co
926
More jobs created than displaced by patented devices
932
Formation of company to establish new industry
938
Origin of United States patent system
950
Patents responsible for development of telephone
958
Relationship between issuance of valid patents and proposed single
969
Opportunity for independent inventors
976
Birth and development of Farnsworth television idea
982
Application for patent covering basic idea of Farnsworth television
990
Patents on useless inventions
997
Comparison of provisions of foreign and United States patent systems
1007
U S patents held by foreigners and foreign patents held by Americans
1043
Role of patents in improvement of automobile parts___
1049
Effect of abolition of patent system on competition
1057
Effect of patent system in increasing employment
1064
An independent inventor
1071
Background of Bakelite Corporations founder
1078
Lack of incentive to invent without patent protection_
1099
Schedule and summary of exhibits__ V
1107
Index I
1161
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Página 488 - The members of the committee have a few other duties to perform; and if there is no objection on the part of any member of the committee, if no other questions are to be asked at the moment, we will recess until tomorrow morning at 10:30.
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Página 185 - ... is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.
Página 81 - I was a member of the research staff of the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1923 to 1933; Chief Statistician of the New York State Board of Housing.
Página 186 - The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless.
Página 272 - Porter. 2:30 this afternoon. (Whereupon at 1 pm a recess was taken until 2:30 pm of the same day.) AFTERNOON SESSION The committee resumed at 2:30 pm on the expiration of the recess.
Página 846 - An act of Congress authorizing the issue of patents for new discoveries has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.
Página 734 - Every patent shall contain a short title or description of the invention or discovery, correctly indicating its nature and design, and a grant to the patentee, his heirs or assigns, for the term of seventeen years, of the exclusive right to make, use, and vend the invention or discovery throughout the United States and the Territories thereof, referring to the specification for the particulars thereof.
Página 489 - Do you solemnly swear that the evidence you are about to give before this subcommittee will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God.
Página 192 - The committee is authorized to utilize the services, information, facilities, and personnel of the departments and establishments of the Government.