Letter, May 5, 1955, to Hon. Edmund F. Mansure on CAA sale of network to A. T. & T. and Western Union___.

Letter, May 12, 1955, to Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr., for copies of
opinion and agreements in re Iranian consortium___.
Letter, May 16, 1955, to New York Times on editorial, Not All Giants.
Letter, May 25, 1955, to John Foster Dulles--

Letter, May 27, 1955, to Price Waterhouse & Co. on their function in
Iranian oil consortium____

Letter, May 31, 1955, to Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr., on Bethlehem-
Youngstown merger-

Letter, June 14, 1955, to Hon. Stanley N. Barnes on extension of anti-
trust community provision of Defense Production Act..
Letter, June 4, 1955, to listed oil companies on dual distribution of
branded motor fuels; replies received___
Letter, June 28, 1955, to John Foster Dulles-

Celler, Hon. Emanuel-Continued

Bills, antitrust-Continued

Page

H. R. 4954, government suit for damages, statute of limita-
tions_.
2, 182-183, 294, 335, 509, 514-515
H. R. 5948, bank mergers which may substantially lessen competi-
tion___
22, 159, 447, 2179, 2652
H. R. 6404, treble-damage action, damages, amount taxable as in-

come_

1732 H. R. 6405, bank mergers, advance approval____ 266, 447, 1847, 1850, 2261 Letter, March 16, 1955, to Hon. Ray M. Gidney on bank mergers-‒‒‒‒ 475 Letter, May 5, 1955, to Hon. F. B. Lee, on sale of network by CAA to A. T. & T. and Western Union__.

351

2142

683

1820

1555

2190-2191

2197

368

2615-2630

1555

Letter, July 20, 1955, to Hon. John Foster Dulles on Iranian consortium documents__.

1561-1562

Opening statement, strengthening of antitrust laws..

1-3

Statement, May 26, 1955, on merger efforts by Bethlehem and Youngstown

2197

Clarification of---.

Complaints filed by Federal Trade Commission against offenders of
Congressional intent-----

159, 177-179, 242-246, 266-267, 447-448, 455, 2231

22, 159, 244, 266-267, 447-448, 455, 1847, 1962, 2172, 2179-2180 1954-1955, 1963, 1964 2310

8, 21, 283, 2493, 2503-2504 2508-2509 19-20

81-84, 185, 190, 242-246, 1954, 2230, 2244

Guidepost for interpretation, per se rule as against rule of

reason.

Interpretation of__

.__ 9, 37–39, 179, 2119-2120, 2242, 2339, 2445, 2448-2451 Intervention by Attorney General in FTC proceedings, section 11

Jurisdictional defect_.

Legislative history of

as Limitation on acquisition of assets__

Mergers, advance approval, amendment of act...

Opinion of act, National Association of Manufacturers..

Paucity of proceedings under_.

Per se construction discussed.

and Pyramiding process-

Report on (H. Rept. 1191, 81st Cong., 1st sess.)
Retrospective application, discussed__

364-365 2303-2305

2234-2235, 2238 26 81-82, 177-179, 2231

1824-1826

6, 7, 11-12, 85, 286 297, 2356-2357, 2443

86

26

297

2231

13, 298,

306, 505, 1966, 1967, 2118-2121, 2234-2238, 2244, 2260, 2356, 2443

Review now needed___.

and Rule of reason..

as to Ownership monopoly and conspiracy_
for Violation of_.

and Substantial lessening of competition____
Test case, suggestions regarding_
Weakening of, by interpretation_

Page

83-84, 364 2238

57, 306, 364

19, 168, 214, 355, 454

451-452, 462, 469, 2236–2238

185, 190 37-39, 179

Celler-Kefauver Antimerger Act. (See Celler Antimerger Act, 1950.)
Cement case good faith defense. (See Trade Commission v. Cement
Institute et al.)

Cement industry, price fixing (see also Federal Trade Commission v.
Cement Institute et al.).

658,-659

Chamber of Commerce of the United States, statement by Hoyt
P. Steele_-_-

1653-1691

Charters. (See Corporations.)

23,

161

2079

Chase National Bank, merger with Bank of Manhattan Co.__.
160, 445, 1848, 1981-1985, 2019-2023
Chemical Bank & Trust Co., merger with Corn Exchange Bank...
Cheney, Roy A., president, Underwear Institute, letter, June 7, 1955, to
Hon. Emanuel Celler, with attached resolution____
Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938:

Administration of..
Amendment of...

Background and philosophy

"Grandfather" clause___

Prevention of monopoly, merely part of criteria__-

Civil Aeronautics Administration:

Sale of network to A. T. & T. and Western Union__
Surplus property disposal----

Civil Aeronautics Board:

Activities relative to antitrust actions___.
Administration of Civil Aeronautics Act_.

Noncertificated carriers, practices as to..

Regulation of air traffic, anticompetitive policies.

Civil rights and corporations__.

Classified documents:

International petroleum cartel, trial---

Iranian consortium___

Top-secret documents_.

164, 187, 201 199

2535-2536, 2560-2562 163, 288-289 198, 392

351, 1652, 2142 351, 1652, 2142

40 176, 187 2051-2052

288-290, 2536 506-508

736-747, 759, 763–765

1555-1560

1961

Clayton Act (see also under specific phrases):

Section 2. (See Robinson-Patman Act.)

Section 3. Exclusive dealing contracts and tie-in sales. (See also
Exclusive dealing):

"Actual foreclosure" test_.

306

Amendment proposed by gasoline retailers, against capricious
lease cancellation___-

626

Section 4, treble damages. (See Treble-damage suits.)

Section 5, amendment, judicial discretion as to consent decrees_____
Section 6, provisions enlarged and clarified by Capper-Volstead Act--
Section 7. (See Celler Antimerger Act, 1950.)

Inconsistency between Federal Trade Commission Act and Clayton
Act____.

Cleveland Cliffs Corp., stockholding interests in Youngstown Steel Co. 57, 178, 282 Coburn, Royal L., general counsel, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, statement_

Coffee, Federal Trade Commission Report on Coffee Prices__.

2185-2188 2297

Page

Colonial Airlines, merger with Eastern Airlines.
Commerce, restraint by oil cartel___

164

746-747

Commerce, Department of, Blue Ribbon Committee___

'Commerce, Secretary of, business advisory committees and councils, membership---.

Commissions, brokerage.

(See Brokerage allowances.)

Commissions, regulatory (See Regulatory agencies.)

64

63-64

"Soft" and "hard" competition__ Substantial lessening of.

Committee on Study of the Growth of the Monopoly Power...

191

Communism, Iranian Government's vulnerability to, as reason for Iranian consortium___

1556

2539-2544

Competition:

Air traffic industry

Coalescence of Legal and Economic Concepts of Competition 2511-2515 Contradiction between Sherman Act and interpretation of RobinsonPatman Act on concept of____

Economic indicia of. (See Brownell Report.)

Free entry of new enterprises__

as Against Government regulation___.

Imperfect. (See this title-Monopolistic.)

Injury to individual competition__.

International restriction on....

Kinds of______

Lessening of competition though not creating monopoly.

Market competition--

Monopolistic.

in Steel industry.

1833

2038

2135

307, 2252

684

1788-1789

627,668

2217-2229

311, 312, 315-318, 325, 1780

2218

308a

of banking in New York City

of economic control, failure of Brownell Report to deal with

of economic power--.

in flour-milling industry.

of industry.

as criterion of monopoly

legislation to break down, discussion.

in manufacturing, report, by Federal Trade Commission..

161, 267-268, 458, 492-494, 1846, 1863

1992-2019 6-7, 1539

308 2036-2038 2050

Conscious parallelism...

18 2143-2158

312, 1803, 1832-1833, 2219, 2509-2510, 2655 294, 299, 302, 340, 344, 403, 1804, 2260

2350-2356, 2364-2366

Consumers Cooperative Association:

Letter on Iranian consortium__

Conscious parallelism in pricing, as evidence of.
parallelism.)

Horizontal agreements, price fixing.

Implied:

proof by indirect evidence_.

"unconversational understandings”.

Intracorporate conspiracy doctrine_
Standard as to---

Membership in International Cooperative Petroleum Association...-Continental Oil Co.: Letter on distribution of branded motor fuels.-. Cook, Hon. H. Earl, Chairman, Board of Directors, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, statement...__

2628

2181-2188

Cooperative League of United States, statement by Jerry Voorhis---- 1536-1549

and Civil rights--.

in Scandinavia, success of-----

Copyright:

Study of copyright system recommended__.
Treble-damage suits___

Corn Exchange Bank, merger with Chemical Bank & Trust Co.---
Corn Products Co. v. Federal Trade Commission (324 U. S. 726), good
faith defense...

Corporations:

Federal licensing proposed_---

Industrial expansion of giant corporations.

1538

500

2135

1722

161

135-136

506-50S

1549

62

80-81, 1960, 2134

Interlocking directorates__

Large, effect on American economy-

List of 100 largest industrial corporations-
Merger. (See Mergers.)

Ownership monopoly..

495-509
1782-1784

Percentage distribution of corporate incomes_

State chartered, in interstate and foreign commerce_
Taxation:

Capital-gains tax on merger suggested..

Capital-gains tax on sales, as incentive to mergers__

Deduction of rent of leased plants built from proceeds of munici-
pal bond issues-

Income, specific exemptions, more graduation of tax, proposals 1548
Use of carryover provisions__.

Cost defense. (See Price discrimination.)

Cost differential. (See Quantity limits proviso).

Courts:

52

Antimonopoly court proposed___.

79, 107-108

Federal judiciary, not versed in antitrust legislation_
Inability of Federal courts to handle most antitrust suits_
Interpretation of Celler Antimerger Act application of per se rule,
Benrus-Hamilton Watch case_

411

78

2445

Jurisdiction, appeals--‒‒‒

2313

Monopoly, conspiratorial ownership under Sherman Act, treatment of
Robinson-Patman Act, interpretations as weakening act_____
Supreme Court, decisions not following congressional intent.__
Reversal of certain decisions recommended.

Usurpation of congressional authority.

5, 15

Cowden, Howard A., president, Consumers Cooperative Association, letter,
May 18, 1955, to Hon. Emanuel Celler, enclosing page of membership

paper.

703

Crevier, R. G., letter, April 26, 1955, to Hon. John W. McCormack on
Brownell Report..

Criminal penalties, section 3, Robinson-Patman Act_.

185, 190, 671, 1743, 1751, 1756, 2255, 2661

345

Criminal prosecutions, types listed__.
Crown-Zellerbach, offender under Celler Antimerger Act-- 2310-2312, 2451-2452

115
20,

D

Dairy products (see also Milk): area restriction on sale of....
Damages, limitation, private suits__

661

41, 303, 304, 410, 2245-2246

3

Treble damage. (See Treble damage suits.)
Defense industry, as integral part of national economy.

Antitrust immunity and section 708, voluntary programs, pool ar-
270, 300, 366–370, 2506-2507

rangements___.

Extension of immunity provisions, Capehart bill (S. 2165, 84th
Cong.).

366-367, 2507

Defense Production Act-Continued

Page

Function of Federal Trade Commission___.

2506-2507

Voluntary agreement, antitrust immunity, relating to foreign com-
merce, list____

699

Delivered pricing, Capehart bill, S. 780, 84th Congress (see also Freight
absorption).

2274-2277, 2520-2521, 2661

Denmark, anticartel law_.

686

Department of State. (See State, Department of.)
Depression, early thirties, causes--

327-328, 331

Dery, Frank A. Spence-Dery Associates, Inc., letter, April 27, 1955, to Hon.
John W. McCormack, on H. R. 11, S. 11, passage__
Diggs, E. S., assistant to general manager, Esso Standard Oil Co., letter,
July 8, 1955, to Hon. Emanuel Celler, on distribution of branded motor
fuels---

115

2616-2617

Dingell, Hon. John D., Representative in Congress from Michigan, state-
ment-.

2198
Disclosure, certain documents. (See Classified Documents.)
Discounts, rebates (see also Overriding Commissions) 93, 101–104, 577, 645, 678
Functional discounts--
290, 1736, 1750, 1751, 2520-2521

Quantity discounts. (See Quantity limits proviso.)
Secretiveness of, Patman bill to eliminate (H. R. 567, 84th Cong.)_1746-1747
Discriminatory practices, criminal penalties for. (See Criminal penalties.)
Discriminatory rates, proposals of ocean-shipping conferences..
Dissolution, divorcement, and divestiture as antitrust remedy.

1739

184,

282-283, 286, 305, 517, 1548

Inadequacy of section 11 of Celler Antimerger Act_-
Opinion on use of____.

Distribution (see also Price discrimination):

Antitrust policy in-----

2508-2509
184, 189, 423

219-221, 228-229, 233, 2658-2659

Exclusive dealing. (See Exclusive dealing.)
Legislative recommendations_____
Practices____

Recommendations to enforcement agencies and courts..
Divestiture. (See Dissolution, divorcement, and divestiture.)
Dixon-Yates contract__.

022
200

1898-1899, 2518-2521
228-229

39, 169, 390, 1546

Douglas, Hon. Paul H., United States Senator from Illinois:
Average and Marginal Revue, appendix.......
Basing-point bill, debate on------

312-315

18

Statement

309-336

Draft, Articles of Agreement, annex II, report of U. N. Ad Hoc Committee.
(See United Nations.)

Dresbach, Howard, chairman, legal and tax committees, National Council
of Farmers' Cooperatives, statement_-.

Drug industry:

1522-1536

and Good faith defense___.

2288

as Organizers of Bureau of Education on Fair Trade____
Dulles, Hon. John Foster, Secretary of State:

1759

Letter, August 16, 1955, to Hon. Emanuel Celler on Iranian con-
sortium

1560

Statement on signing of agreement in principle between the Govern-
ment of Iran and the International Oil Consortium__.
Duplication, antimerger work, between Federal Trade Commission and De-
partment of Justice___

726

86

D-X Sunray Oil Co., letter, July 1, 1955, on distribution of branded motor
fuels.

2624-2625

Dyer, J. E., president, Sinclair Refining Co., letter, July 15, 1955, to Hon.
Emanuel Celler, on distribution of branded motor fuels..

2625

E

Eastern Airlines, merger with Colonial Airlines__

164

Ebasco Services, Inc. (subsidiary of Electric Bond & Share Co.):