Food Marketing Costs: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Consumers Study of ..., 85-1 ..., October 8 and 9, 19571957 - 155 pages |
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... advertising claims . These meats , regardless of price , are the very best money com FRESH HAMS FANCY WHOLE or EITHER HALF 10 to 12 POUND AVERAGE 25 All cut from young corn fed porkers raised in the mid - west ... a section famous for ...
... advertising claims . These meats , regardless of price , are the very best money com FRESH HAMS FANCY WHOLE or EITHER HALF 10 to 12 POUND AVERAGE 25 All cut from young corn fed porkers raised in the mid - west ... a section famous for ...
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... advertising in New York papers ? There is a lot , I know , in Washington , D. C. Would it help if there was some agency - city , State , or Federal , or even a consumer group - which made a daily survey of retail prices and published ...
... advertising in New York papers ? There is a lot , I know , in Washington , D. C. Would it help if there was some agency - city , State , or Federal , or even a consumer group - which made a daily survey of retail prices and published ...
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... advertising our apples , the Apple Institute advertised Michigan apples because they advertised where these apples ... advertisement went to pay for the big people who had 200,000 bushels that did not belong to them that they went to buy ...
... advertising our apples , the Apple Institute advertised Michigan apples because they advertised where these apples ... advertisement went to pay for the big people who had 200,000 bushels that did not belong to them that they went to buy ...
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... advertisement of High's , a chain- store , which successfully markets milk at 78 cents a gallon . That practice has been adopted in other jurisdictions . In Chicago , milk has been sold by the gallon for 77 cents for years ; in ...
... advertisement of High's , a chain- store , which successfully markets milk at 78 cents a gallon . That practice has been adopted in other jurisdictions . In Chicago , milk has been sold by the gallon for 77 cents for years ; in ...
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... advertise ? Where do they spend their money ? This is from a New York daily paper . On one side you see Break- stone - they are a subsidiary of National Dairy . It is trying to sell Breakstone's Cream Cottage Cheese . The milk that goes ...
... advertise ? Where do they spend their money ? This is from a New York daily paper . On one side you see Break- stone - they are a subsidiary of National Dairy . It is trying to sell Breakstone's Cream Cottage Cheese . The milk that goes ...
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Page 121 - No person shall engage in this state in any trade practice which is defined in this Act as, or determined pursuant to this Act to be, an unfair method of competition or an unfair or deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance.
Page 121 - Section 5, Federal Trade Commission Act : "Unfair methods of competition in commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices In commerce, are hereby declared unlawful.
Page 150 - I960, to be full compliance with the subpena. Did you receive that letter, Mr. Tobin? Mr. TOBIN. I did, Mr. Chairman. The CHAIRMAN. That letter will be placed in the record. (The letter referred to is as follows:) JUNE 17, 1960. Mr. AUSTIN J. TOBIN, Executive Director, The Port of New York Authority, New York, NY DEAR MR. TOBIN: This is in reference to the subpena issued by Subcommittee No. 5 of the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives on June 13, 1960, and served upon you on...
Page 49 - Retail-cost estimates represent cost at retail food store prices of all domestic farm foods that were both sold by farmers and bought by civilian consumers in this country. Farm food products sold in the form of m-als are included but are valued at what the food would have cost in retail stores.
Page 121 - FTC issues statement on trading stamps," Press Release, October 3, 1957, wherein the Commission stated that it "did not consider trading stamp plans in themselves to be an unfair method of competition under the laws it administers.
Page 122 - ... with reference to the Sperry and Hutchinson Company (S & H) and Top Value Enterprises, Inc. (TV), two of the major trading stamp companies in the industry. In the petition before this Court, the petitioner pointed out that the Federal Trade Commission in its study of the stamp plan operations "would take action where necessary to prevent deception of customers, price discrimination, illegal exclusive dealing, boycott, conspiracy, or any other conduct in violation of the Federal Trade Commission...
Page 3 - When you begin to talk about the spread between what the farmer gets and what the consumer pays, in...
Page 120 - I said then — since we know it is essential for our type of economy and we like the freedoms which our economy gives to each of us — the freedom to enter or withdraw from any specific field or career, freedom to set our own prices, yes, even freedom to undersell somebody else and take business away from him. But— I continued — all too often when a competitor really acts like a competitor and does something which hurts us — cuts a price, sells harder, improves quality — it becomes "unfair...
Page 78 - That is the point I was going to make. In other words, you know this is a remarkable thing, you give less service, you get more money.
Page 122 - Commission intends to continue to study stamp-plan operations and will take action where necessary to prevent deception of customers, price discrimination, illegal exclusive dealing, boycott, conspiracy, or any other conduct in violation of the Federal Trade Commission or Clayton Acts.