Small Business Problems in the Drug Industry: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, First Session, Volume 1U.S.GovernmentPrint.Office, 1967 Examines impact of pharmaceutical industry pricing policies on small firms, focusing on practices which allegedly violate antitrust laws. Part two continuation of hearings on the impact of pharmaceutical industry retail, wholesale, and manufacturing practices on small business |
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... merchandise from St. Louis , I pay the same cost per car on that one car as I would if I ordered 10 cars or 100 cars . In other words , exactly the same amount if I buy that much in quantity . Therefore , if I get freight rates ...
... merchandise from St. Louis , I pay the same cost per car on that one car as I would if I ordered 10 cars or 100 cars . In other words , exactly the same amount if I buy that much in quantity . Therefore , if I get freight rates ...
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... merchandise for exchange which is hurting the small pharmacy owner . I myself am not a pharmacy owner , large or small , but prefer to practice my profession in the small stores which offer service to their customers rather than the ...
... merchandise for exchange which is hurting the small pharmacy owner . I myself am not a pharmacy owner , large or small , but prefer to practice my profession in the small stores which offer service to their customers rather than the ...
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... merchandise , and it is unfair , it is actually unfair in the marketplace for the community pharmacist to have to compete on terms which make it difficult for him to practice and to survive . The effect of these practices has been ...
... merchandise , and it is unfair , it is actually unfair in the marketplace for the community pharmacist to have to compete on terms which make it difficult for him to practice and to survive . The effect of these practices has been ...
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... merchandise , far below what the community pharmacies can obtain . I would like to quote some prices . Mr. CONTE . Could I interrupt you there ? How did this all come about ? Does the doctor give a prescription and tell the patient that ...
... merchandise , far below what the community pharmacies can obtain . I would like to quote some prices . Mr. CONTE . Could I interrupt you there ? How did this all come about ? Does the doctor give a prescription and tell the patient that ...
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... merchandise . Mr. POTVIN . Could you not give your customers a better price were you allowed access to the 500's and 1,000's ? Mr. SHAFFER . Not only could I give them a better price , but my patrons are subsidizing the lower price to ...
... merchandise . Mr. POTVIN . Could you not give your customers a better price were you allowed access to the 500's and 1,000's ? Mr. SHAFFER . Not only could I give them a better price , but my patrons are subsidizing the lower price to ...
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additional discounts/quantity additional discounts/quantity):_ advertised asked Biddle BOPP Bottle of 1000 Box of 25 Bristol Laboratories Bronx Bufferin Bulk Pkg capsules carisoprodol cents Chairman committee community pharmacies competition CONTE contract Conventional drug wholesalers correct cost DINGELL direct account dispensing drug distribution drug industry druggists drugstore Dun & Bradstreet Eli Lilly FISHER full-line wholesaler going GOLDFEDER H. L. Moore hospital clinics hospital pharmacy Individually owned community KINTNER large community purchasers Lederle Libritabs maintain warehouse facilities MANDELL McKesson meprobamate merchandise Mercurochrome National Wholesale Drug NWDA offers from federal package patient percent pharmaceutical pharmacist POTVIN prescription price list received respond to bid retail Robinson-Patman Robinson-Patman Act salers Sandoz SCULLY sell SHAFFER short-line wholesaler SHRAGE SKINNER small business Squibb stores who maintain subcommittee tablets Tax supported institutions tell Tetracycline told trading area vial Wholesale Drug Association WILLIAMS
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Page 181 - If there is no further business to come before the Committee, we are adjourned.
Page 183 - Do you solemnly swear that the testimony that you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
Page 2 - It is a real pleasure for me to be here with you today for the opening of your hearings.
Page 31 - Truman in 1947, by the Select Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives in 1952, the Bureau of the Census and the Small Business Administration.
Page 28 - Breitenstein. (Whereupon, at 12:03 pm, the subcommittee recessed until 2 pm of the same day.) AFTERNOON SESSION Mr.
Page 78 - Senator, of coming here. (The balance of the prepared statement follows:) STATEMENT OF CHARLES FRANK FORT, PRESIDENT, FOOD TOWN ETHICAL PHARMACIES, INC., BATON ROUGE, LA. My name is Charles Frank Fort. I am president of Food Town Ethical Pharmacies, Inc., Post Office Box 2911, Baton Rouge, La. Since my resignation as a special agent of the FBI, I have been active in business management for 17 years. LOW RETAIL PRICES ON FAMOUS BRANDS AND TRADEMARKS STIMULATED RAPID...
Page 160 - In percentage of total area devoted to improved parks, the Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, in New York City, and Essex County, NJ lead, having respectively had 11, 15 and 4.5 percent of their area devoted to this purpose.
Page 18 - It must be operated to the extent of its financial ability for those not able to pay for the services rendered and not exclusively for those who are able and expected to pay.
Page 80 - I think it's goinw to require very careful study before anyone could assume that there is such a thing as generic equivalency on a broad scale in our drug field today. There will have to be better methods of determination of equivalency than we now have, and more attention paid to the entire problem. It's not a simple issue.
Page A-134 - ... and post-office address of person to whom the guaranty or undertaking is given) is hereby guaranteed, as of the date of such shipment or delivery, to be, on such date, not adulterated or...