Food Marketing Costs: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Consumers Study of ..., 85-1 ..., October 8 and 9, 19571957 - 155 pages |
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... eggs - I bought eggs for 30 cents . One lady bought them for 40 cents . I am talking about a half dozen . Mrs. PRYOR . I paid 41 cents . Mrs. WERBELL . That was for half a dozen . There is all of that dif- ference in prices . On apples ...
... eggs - I bought eggs for 30 cents . One lady bought them for 40 cents . I am talking about a half dozen . Mrs. PRYOR . I paid 41 cents . Mrs. WERBELL . That was for half a dozen . There is all of that dif- ference in prices . On apples ...
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... EGGS EGGS Evap . Milk Tomatoes Pink Salmon Spry Prunes Kieffer Pears Social Teas Woodbury's SUNSHINE SOAP Babbitt's Lye Oxydol Silver Dust CALIFORNIA 40.50 to the pound THANK YOU BRAND OR PREMIUM FLAKES - N . B. C. FILTERED cans 1 lb ...
... EGGS EGGS Evap . Milk Tomatoes Pink Salmon Spry Prunes Kieffer Pears Social Teas Woodbury's SUNSHINE SOAP Babbitt's Lye Oxydol Silver Dust CALIFORNIA 40.50 to the pound THANK YOU BRAND OR PREMIUM FLAKES - N . B. C. FILTERED cans 1 lb ...
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... Eggs Gold N Rich Cheese 45 179 63 Apple * 23 27 Pure Lard Fresh Milk Tieavy Cream 30 Perth & Ken Yat the time Kicks & eth 29 € LOUISIANA STRAWBERRIES wek indf og manteni we used all the way con bare de get how sa gress Barse age to the ...
... Eggs Gold N Rich Cheese 45 179 63 Apple * 23 27 Pure Lard Fresh Milk Tieavy Cream 30 Perth & Ken Yat the time Kicks & eth 29 € LOUISIANA STRAWBERRIES wek indf og manteni we used all the way con bare de get how sa gress Barse age to the ...
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... Eggs And De Leaks Chec . Coveral bags GHOT . LUNES MASWALIOS Martisokon Props Comment Eggs Acup Sassy Halch BOVE We only large surtment of Quality Candias for your Soder Besko Buster Corsage to Acessos 25 Top Your Baster Dinner with Pic ...
... Eggs And De Leaks Chec . Coveral bags GHOT . LUNES MASWALIOS Martisokon Props Comment Eggs Acup Sassy Halch BOVE We only large surtment of Quality Candias for your Soder Besko Buster Corsage to Acessos 25 Top Your Baster Dinner with Pic ...
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... Eggs were Green Eggs brand Hershusallow Egga Mul - red Easter Been Egga brand $ 7 ° Chivo Marmelade op 31 Easter Candles ! bag Chocolate arvard Full wrapped Chocolate Rabbits Chocolate Chicks Red Hoo Refreshing Beverages ! Yukon Cyber ...
... Eggs were Green Eggs brand Hershusallow Egga Mul - red Easter Been Egga brand $ 7 ° Chivo Marmelade op 31 Easter Candles ! bag Chocolate arvard Full wrapped Chocolate Rabbits Chocolate Chicks Red Hoo Refreshing Beverages ! Yukon Cyber ...
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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.