Fair Trade Laws: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, on S. 408 ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 - 718 sider |
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advertising agreements antitrust laws Association brand name BRUNER catalog showroom Chairman CHUMBRIS Committee Congress consumer cost court customers D.C. DEAR SENATOR distributors economic EDWARD BROOKE effect enforcement fair trade laws fair trade price fair traded items fair-trade February high fidelity industry inflation jobbers loss leader lower prices Magnavox maintain manufacturer's manufacturers margin marketplace McGuire Act merchandise merchant Miller-Tydings Act Miss JOHNSON monopoly N/A N/A N/A National non-fair non-fair-trade nonsigner percent permit predatory pricing President price competition price cutting price fixing profit protect quality stabilization question refuse to sell repeal of fair resale price maintenance resell retail stores ROMAN L SCHULBERG Schwinn Bicycle Company Schwinn bicycles Schwinn Dealer Schwinn Sales Senate Office Building Senator HART Senator HRUSKA Senator ROMAN small business small businessman small retailers sold SPORTMART statement Subcommittee suggested sumers testimony Thank tion Trade Trade Trade trademark U.S. Senate Washington wholesalers and retailers
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Side 74 - It may still be the case that if you build a better mousetrap the world will beat a path to your door.
Side 184 - ... /In the absence of any purpose to create or maintain a monopoly, the act does not restrict the long recognized right of trader or manufacturer engaged in an entirely private business, freely to exercise his own independent discretion as to parties with whom he will deal. And, of course, he may announce in advance the circumstances under which he will refuse to sell.
Side 99 - 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.
Side 141 - 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.
Side 189 - unfair methods of competition" are not defined by the statute and their exact meaning is in dispute. It is for the courts, not the Commission, ultimately to determine as a matter of law what they include.
Side 181 - The retailer, after buying, could if he chose, give away his purchase or sell it at any price he saw fit, or not sell it at all, his course in these respects being affected only by the fact that he might by his action incur the displeasure of the manufacturer who could refuse to make further sales to him, as he had the undoubted right to do.
Side 188 - By these decisions it is settled that in prosecutions under the Sherman Act a trader is not guilty of violating its terms who simply refuses to sell to others, and he may withhold his goods from those who will not sell them at the prices which he fixes for their resale.
Side 181 - Company made agreements, either express or implied, which undertook to obligate vendees to observe specified resale prices; and it was treated ' as alleging only recognition of the manufacturer's undoubted right to specify resale prices and refuse to deal with anyone who failed to maintain the same.
Side 185 - The total number of such dealers, handling the products of the company, includes the greater portion of the jobbers, wholesalers and retailers, respectively, in the grocery trades, and a large proportion of the jobbers, wholesalers and retailers in the drug, candy. and tobacco trades, respectively, throughout the United States. The company has adopted and maintained, and still maintained at the time complaint was filed by the Commission, in the sale and distribution of its products, a policy known...
Side 235 - No contract relating to the sale or resale of a commodity which bears, or the label or content of which bears, the trade-mark, brand, or name of the producer or owner of such commodity, and which is in fair and open competition with commodities of the same general class produced by others...