Page

Economic indicia of competition and monopoly_
Economic planning, national, effect on certain industries___
Economic policy, problems of future___.
Economic tenets underlying antitrust policy.
Edwards, Corwin D., University of Chicago, review of study by A. D. H.
Kaplan, on Big Enterprise in a Competitive Economy.
Ehrhart, D. D. H., II, for Ehrhart-Conrad Co., Inc., letter, April 1, 1955, to
Hon. James H. Duff, on Brownell Report.--.
Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States, letter, October 16,
1952, re antitrust laws___

223, 231, 234, 362 499-504

1968-1971

309-310

1717-1722

110-111

546

Electrical manufacturing industry, mergers as not monopoly_ 1669-1671, 1674 Electronics industry and Government market__

499

Elicker, W. G., secretary, the Texas Co., New York, N. Y., letter, July 14, 1955, to Hon. Emanuel Celler, on distribution of branded motor fuels___ 2621 Elliott, S. H., vice president in charge of sales, Standard Oil Co., Cleveland, Ohio, letter, July 1, 1955, to Hon. Emanuel Celler, on distribution of branded motor fuels___.

2621

Emmerglick, Prof. Leonard J., Georgetown University, statement__. 736-830
Emmons, Blyth, director, National Small Business Men's Association, Inc.,
letter, June 30, 1955, the Herbert Maletz, statement....
Empire State Petroleum Association, Inc., statement by William
Simon--

2533-2534

2584-2605

1795

Murray full employment bill, 1935, position of NAM on..
Size of Manufacturing Establishments, 1952
Stabilization efforts of NAM_____

Enforcement. (See Antitrust laws, Celler Antimerger Act.)

England. (See United Kingdom.)

Equality of opportunity bill (H. R. 11, S. 11, 84th Cong.), Kefauver-Patman

bill_.

Definition---.

Good-faith defense

1828

1796

1828

41-45, 101-104, 671, 680

"Legalistic criteria," unworkability of_

List of Representatives sponsoring-

2057 680 2222-2223

109-110, 190

List of Representatives who introduced identical bills..

List of Senators sponsoring_---

Equity, centralized equity markets not open to small business.

Equity Cooperative Exchange, conspiracy against.
Esso Standard Oil Co., letter to Hon. Emanuel Celler on distribution of
branded motor fuels____

Evidence (see also Conspiracy; Conscious parallelism):

562 2598-2599 62

659

2616-2617

Burden of proof in good-faith defense cases under Robinson-Patman
Act---
16, 334-335, 629, 634-636, 642, 669

Economic Evidence in Antitrust Cases--.

Inference of conspiracy from indirect evidence.

2476-2481 15-18, 58, 215, 668

Evins, Congressman Joe L., of House Small Business Committee, question-
naire to Federal Trade Commission on antimerger work..
Replies to questionnaire___

Discretion to exempt from antitrust laws, Iranian oil cartel_---
Legislative powers, transfer to--

Expediting Act, appeal of antitrust cases to Supreme Court....
Export Petroleum Association, Inc..

2042, 2654

299-300 166-167

342 773-779

Exports and imports:

Combined exports of Standard Oil Export Corp. and Export Petroleum
Association, Inc., table_.

Oil, regulation by cartel__.

F

Page

776

745-750

Fair trade laws.

A Consumer's Benefit, by E. F. Tompkins, New York Journal American_ 573 and Antitrust policy

210, 575, 680, 1734-1735, 1952

210, 234-242, 308

Attack by Brownell Report..

330

and Consumer__

2604-2605

Fair trade amendment, Capehart bill (S. 2055, 84th Cong.)
Inconsistent with free competitive economy_

and Resale price maintenance_

Safeway Stores, Inc., draft of proposed resolution on_.
Fair Labor Standards Act, 1937, position of NAM on__.
Farmers (see also agricultural cooperatives):
Basing-point system in steel, cost to farmers..
Monopoly practices affecting.

Federal charter system proposed__-.

Federal Communications Commission:

Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union, purpose_.

Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association, grain cooperative_-
Featherbedding practices. (See Labor.)

Competition in radio and television, failure to stimulate__
Television, trend toward monopoly.

Federal Deposit Insurance Act, amendment, Celler bill (H. R. 2115).

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation:

Bank mergers, jurisdiction to stop--

644

659

170-172

2053 187, 195-197 266,

447, 2175, 2179, 2187

Change in number of offices of operating banks.
Functions___.

Mergers:

Authority to screen.

Function to prevent....

Standards for insurance....

Statement by H. Earl Cook....

Number and classification of operating banks in United States, 1949-54 2193

Federal Free Enterprise Commission, proposed___.

2183-2184 2181-2188

1904-1905, 2260

Federal Reserve Board:

Mergers, absence of case of disapproval of

1846

State-chartered bank, merger, advance approval requirement---

1863

Federal Reserve System:

Board of Governors, report to Senate Select Committee on Small Business (82d Cong.)

438

Merger, consolidation, absorptions by State member banks.

Mergers, lack of rejections of applications_

2167

2159

2168-2179

22-23, 441-442 2192

1846, 2185, 2186

2183

1846

2159-2181

645, 659-660

2469-2476 2356

2486-2491

2298-2300

85-36

2317-2318, 2348-2349, 2528

2312

1743-1747, 1751 682, 2527-2528

Celler Antimerger Act:

Administrtation of..

Complaints filed against offenders of.......

Clayton Act cases, FTC not following certain court decisions in__.

Coffee prices, report on.

Composition, bipartisanship.

Consent order rule__‒‒

price discriminations___.

Correspondence with National Congress of Petroleum Retailers, Inc.,

Current work_

Dockets Nos. 4389, 5449, 5822, 6000___
Defense Production Act, function under.

Enforcement record__.

286, 363 2310

39

2297

82-83

2350-2356, 2364–2366

605-608 2290-2316, 2348, 2516-2518 2635, 649, 2458, 2459, 2493

2506-2507

11, 668 105-106, 682 598-627

15-18

Injunctions, preliminary-

2526-2527

Investigation of advertising practices in health and accident insur-
ance industry_

Jurisdiction over antitrust laws, concurrent with Department of
Justice

2296

1804, 2666

List of FTC cases and merger clearances handled by members of
Attorney General's Committee___.

Per se approach as against rule of reason approach___
Personnel who worked on International Petroleum Cartel report_--_ 2509
Pillsbury case-

Press releases:

38, 84, 287, 2356

Coalescence of Legal and Economic Concepts of Competition__ 2511-2515
Economic Evidence in Antitrust Cases..

FTC and the Administrative Process_.

Quantity limits, certain discount cases, removal of authority to

impose

184, 189

Reorganization

2454-2456

Reply to questionnaire of Congressman Evins of House Small Business Committee__

Rules of Practice, Procedure, Organization, and Acts-

Federal Trade Commission v. Cement Institute, et al. (333 U. S. 683) _.

Federal Trade Commission Act:

McGuire amendment, repeal of..
Purpose.

Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., proceedings before FTC on Robinson-Patman
Act violations__

17,

77-78, 138-139, 215, 648

234-242

645

13

68

First National Bank of New York, merger with National City Bank.

23.

160, 446, 2160-2161

Flour-milling industry, concentration and monopoly

2050

Food industry:

Broker, independent, place of..

Retail, competition in----.

Brokers and section 2 (c) of Robinson-Patman Act_.

Ford, complaints against, pending before FTC_

Foreign antitrust policy--

Foreign commerce.

(See Foreign trade.)

Foreign countries:

Page

630-631

2289

538

2296

412-413, 420–422.

Anticartel laws.

Anticartel policies, promotion of---

685-691

419-420, 434-435, 685

Bilateral agreements, anticartel provisions.

Oil cartel case, effect on our relations with_

Quota production agreements between industries in___.

Restrictive business practices, effect on economic strength of..

Study of our antitrust laws by___

690-691, 694 695-696.

Foreign Operations Administration, technical and program and restrictive practices---

691

684

2,685, 687

688

Brownell Report. (See Brownell Report-Trade or commerce with
foreign nations.)

Objections to disclosure, certain Iranian consortium documents-- 1559-1560
Outlaw of agreements restricting competition___-.
Study of our antitrust laws by___

686

Capehart bill (S. 780, 84th Cong.).

2,685

Franklin National Bank, Franklin Square, Long Island, statements-- 2261-2272 Frates, Geo. H., Washington representative, National Association of Retail Druggists, statement____

Freight absorption (see also Basing-point systems; Delivered pricing

2226, 2286-2288 2274-2277 French, R. S., Los Angeles, Calif., letter, April 7, 1955, to Hon. James Roosevelt

114

Frick, L. W., president, Calcot, Ltd., letter, April 28, 1955, to Hon. Wright
Patman_.

General Electric case (1926) patents, price restrictions on licensee.-

General Electric Co., formation of international lamp cartel_---

General Motors:

Automobile prices, practices___.

Exclusive dealing contracts_.

Investigation by FTC____‒‒

Not a monopoly under section 2 of Sherman Act____

General Services Administration, letter to Hon. Emanuel Celler, on
CAA proposed surplus sale___

2615-2630

86-87

625-626.

598-627

598-627

614-624

598-627

236-237

Gesell, Garhard A., counsel for Transamerica Corp., Covington & Burling, letter, June 2, 1955, to Hon. Emanuel Celler on statement by Ben H. Ryan.

Page

1773-1774

Gewirtz, Stanley, executive assistant to president, Air Transport Asso-
ciation of America:

Letter, September 16, 1955, to Hon. Emanuel Celler__
Statement__

2672 2534-2584

Gidney, Hon. R. M., Comptroller of the Currency:
Correspondence with Hon. Emanuel Celler on bank mergers, March
14, 1955___.

Position in controversy over increase in bank mergers.
Replies to written questions propounded to----
Statement

473-476, 478

22.23

480-494

445-495

80, 1551, 1722-1733

2143-2158

Glenshaw Glass Case, taxation of treble-damage recovery.
Goldberg, Arthur J., general counsel, CIO, statement___
Good faith defense in price discrimination cases under Robinson-Patman
Act

15-16,

94-100, 127-129, 134-143, 185, 189, 305, 307, 308a, 365, 634, 636, 641–642, 672, 680–681, 1743, 1750–1753, 1803, 1833, 1839–1840, 2042, 2519, 2660.

Analysis of suggestions made by Brownell Report_.

Bills to strengthen "good faith" provision, H. R. 11, S. 11. (See Equal-
ity of opportunity bill.)

(See Public contracts.)

(See Research.)

Standard Oil case-

Goodrich Co. v. Federal Trade Commission (208 F. 2d 829), and quantity limit proviso___

1841-1842

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Federal Trade Commission (304 U. S. 255), price discrimination on account of quantities sold---

Government:

and Concentrated economic power.

Contracts.

129

162-163

350

Limitation of actions, statute running against Government, discussion_
Procurement. (See Procurement.)

Research.

Suits for damages (Celler bill, H. R. 4954).

2,

182-183, 294, 335, 509, 1953, 2245, Governor's Power Policy Committee, planning of power developments in Northwest____.

376-378

Gray, Bill, manager Gray's Ice Cream Co., letter, April 23, 1955, to National
Federation of Independent Business_-
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.
Great Britain. (See United Kingdom.)
Grocery business:

Gwynne, John W., member, Federal Trade Commission, accompanying
Edward F. Howrey--

2289

H

Hadlick, Paul E., general counsel, National Oil Marketers Association, statement.

589-597

Hagedorn, George G., associate director of research, NAM, accompanying
Earl Bunting..

1778

Hall, Jack L., Los Angeles, Calif., letter, April 7, 1955, to Hon. James
Roosevelt, in support of H. R. 11 and S. 11___

114

Hamilton, W. E., director of research, American Farm Bureau Federation, statement....

1733-1742

Interpretation of Celler Antimerger Act....

Hamilton-Benrus Watch case, per se application of quantitative rule.

Handler, Milton, professor of law, Columbia Law School, statement-- 2229-2250

2243

190