Quality Stabilization, 1963: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 3669, a Bill to Amend the Federal Trade Commission Act, to Promote Quality and Price Stabilization, to Define and Restrain Certain Unfair Methods of Distribution and to Confirm, Define, and Equalize the Rights of Producers and Resellers in the Distribution of Goods Identified by Distinguishing Brands, Names, Or Trademarks, and for Other Purposes and Identical BillsUnited States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce and Finance U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963 - 459 pages |
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... brand owners such as the multimillionaire and even billionaire retail chains - who own their own distribution outlets and price control their private brands . Only last year , the Department of Commerce said , " Some 398,000 companies ...
... brand owners such as the multimillionaire and even billionaire retail chains - who own their own distribution outlets and price control their private brands . Only last year , the Department of Commerce said , " Some 398,000 companies ...
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... brands rated very good were less expen- sive than at least one brand rated as good , four rated as fair , and three ... private entrepreneurs from all States and towns across the country . I can best do this by reviewing what the ...
... brands rated very good were less expen- sive than at least one brand rated as good , four rated as fair , and three ... private entrepreneurs from all States and towns across the country . I can best do this by reviewing what the ...
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... brands that they may choose to carry and sell and , in addition , are able to secure private branded and unbranded merchandise . Thus , their freedom to establish the price of their goods . is not restricted as is that of small business ...
... brands that they may choose to carry and sell and , in addition , are able to secure private branded and unbranded merchandise . Thus , their freedom to establish the price of their goods . is not restricted as is that of small business ...
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... private property free of such restraints on the rights of alienation . It is impossible to review in detail all of ... brands to the disadvantage of small manufacturers and distributors ; ( 2 ) it would impose upon the consuming ...
... private property free of such restraints on the rights of alienation . It is impossible to review in detail all of ... brands to the disadvantage of small manufacturers and distributors ; ( 2 ) it would impose upon the consuming ...
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... private brands ; they will have unbranded products . They have a wide choice as to the kind of merchandise they can get . Frequently it is the identi- cal merchandise as the brand merchandise but without the brand . This will continue ...
... private brands ; they will have unbranded products . They have a wide choice as to the kind of merchandise they can get . Frequently it is the identi- cal merchandise as the brand merchandise but without the brand . This will continue ...
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Page 319 - Therefore, corrective action involving deceptive practices in the sale of furniture would be initiated under the Authority of section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act which prohibits "unfair methods of competition in commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce.
Page 57 - The essence of the American economic system of private enterprise is free competition. Only through full and free competition can free markets, free entry into business, and opportunities for the expression and growth of personal initiative and individual judgment be assured. The preservation and expansion of such competition is basic not only to the economic well-being but to the security of this Nation.
Page 322 - That any person who shall be injured in his business or property by reason of anything forbidden in the antitrust laws may sue therefor in any district court of the United States in the district in which the defendant resides or is found or has an agent, without respect to the amount in controversy, and shall recover threefold the damages by him sustained, and the cost of suit, including a reasonable attorney's fee.
Page 69 - I cannot believe that in the long run the public will profit by this court permitting knaves to cut reasonable prices for some ulterior purpose of their own and thus to impair, if not to destroy, the production and sale of articles which it is assumed to be desirable that the public should be able to get.
Page 403 - Mandeville Island Farms, Inc. v. American Crystal Sugar Co. (334 US 219 (1948)). The...
Page 4 - If any provision of this Act or the application of any such provision to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and the applicability of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Page 71 - There is a great body of fact and opinion tending to show that price cutting by retail dealers is not only injurious to the good will and business of the producer and distributor of identified goods, but injurious to the general public as well.
Page 72 - The authority of the federal government over interstate commerce does not differ in extent or character from that retained by the states over intrastate commerce.
Page 66 - Property in trade-marks and the right to their exclusive use rest upon the laws of the several States, and depend upon them for security and protection; the power of Congress to legislate on the subject being only such as arises from the authority to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States and with the Indian tribes.
Page 65 - The right to adopt and use a symbol or a device to distinguish the goods or property made or sold by the person whose mark it is, to the exclusion of use by all other persons, has been long recognized by the common law and the chancery courts of England and of this country, and by the statutes of some of the States.