Price Support on Certain Varieties of Flue-cured Tobacco: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Tobacco ... Eighty-fifth Congress, First Sessoin. August 6, 1957 |
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... meatpacking industry . These include unfair , discriminatory , and deceptive practices or the control of prices or the development of monopolies . The act seeks to assure farmers and ranchers of open competitive market conditions and ...
... meatpacking industry . These include unfair , discriminatory , and deceptive practices or the control of prices or the development of monopolies . The act seeks to assure farmers and ranchers of open competitive market conditions and ...
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... meatpacking industry and its related activities . While this investigation was underway as a result of the specific directive from the President , the Department of Justice instituted antitrust proceedings against the five largest ...
... meatpacking industry and its related activities . While this investigation was underway as a result of the specific directive from the President , the Department of Justice instituted antitrust proceedings against the five largest ...
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... meatpack- ing establishments . The rate of expansion between 1939 and 1947 was very rapid with the number of plants ... meatpacking industry when compared with a number of other industries . In fact , today the four largest packers are ...
... meatpack- ing establishments . The rate of expansion between 1939 and 1947 was very rapid with the number of plants ... meatpacking industry when compared with a number of other industries . In fact , today the four largest packers are ...
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... meatpacking operations even though their princi- pal business is not meatpacking or activities related to it . During 1955 , there were 14 food - chain organizations filing reports as meatpackers under provisions of this act . This ...
... meatpacking operations even though their princi- pal business is not meatpacking or activities related to it . During 1955 , there were 14 food - chain organizations filing reports as meatpackers under provisions of this act . This ...
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... meatpackers subject to its provisions shall not engage in practices that restrain commerce or create a monopoly ... meatpacking firms virtually had complete control of the trade , from the producer to the consumer . The report also ...
... meatpackers subject to its provisions shall not engage in practices that restrain commerce or create a monopoly ... meatpacking firms virtually had complete control of the trade , from the producer to the consumer . The report also ...
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Page 218 - Columbia shall present satisfactory evidence of any such violation, to cause appropriate proceedings to be commenced and prosecuted in the proper courts of the United States, without delay, for the enforcement of the penalties as in such case herein provided. SEC. 6. That the term "drug...
Page 2 - by the Senate and, House of Representatives of the United States...
Page 337 - ... (f) Conspire, combine, agree, or arrange with any other person (1) to apportion territory for carrying on business in commerce, or (2) to apportion purchases or sales of any article in commerce, or (3) to manipulate or control prices...
Page 143 - Secretary finds that the packer has violated or is violating any provisions of this title covered by the charges, he shall make a report in writing in which he shall state his findings as to the facts, and shall issue and cause to be served on the packer an order requiring such packer to cease and desist from continuing such violation. The testimony taken at the hearing shall be reduced to writing and filed in the records of the Department of Agriculture. (c...
Page 142 - Make or give, in commerce, any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person or locality in any respect •whatsoever, or subject, in commerce, any particular person or locality to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect -whatsoever...
Page 26 - States declared by the President to be an acute distress area because of unemployment or other economic cause if the President finds that such use will not displace or interfere with normal marketing of agricultural commodities and (2) in connection with any major disaster determined by the President to warrant assistance by the Federal Government under Public Law 875, Eighty-first Congress, as amended (42 USC 1855).
Page 105 - We will stand in recess until 2 :30 this afternoon. (Whereupon, at 12:35 pm the committee recessed to reconvene at 2 :30 pm the same day.) AFTERNOON SESSION The CHAIRMAN.
Page 35 - The Bureau of the Budget advises that there is no objection to the submission of this report. Sincerely yours, TRUE D. MORSE, Acting Secretary.
Page 17 - That section 328 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following : "Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, the acreage allotment for corn for any calendar year beginning with 1957 shall not be less than fifty-one million acres.
Page 5 - The Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (Public Law 566, 83d Cong.), as amended...