Federal Licensing of Corporations: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Seventy-fifth Congress, First[-third] Session, on S. 10, a Bill to Regulate Interstate and Foreign Commerce by Prescribing the Conditions Under which Corporations May Engage Or May be Formed to Engage in Such Commerce, to Provide for and Define Additional Powers and Duties of the Federal Trade Commission, to Assist the Several States in Improving Labor Conditions and Enlarging Purchasing Power for Goods Sold in Such Commerce, and for Other Purposes ...

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Page 235 - Whether he intended his answer to apply strictly to cottonseed or not, I do not know; but it seems to me that...
Page 238 - This chart was supplied by the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors of the War Department, and purports to show the movement of stone on the Great Lakes for the year 1935.
Page 219 - Section 7 of the Clayton Act. which prohibits the acquisition of stock or assets "where in any line of commerce or in any activity affecting commerce in any section of the country, the effect of such acquisition may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly.
Page 216 - The constitution declares that "congress shall have power to regulate commerce with the foreign nations and among the several states,
Page 232 - Oil Co., a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, also produces crude oil from holdings in Oklahoma, Kansas, Wyoming, and Michigan.
Page 197 - OF FIVE LEADING GROCERY CHAINS COMPARED WITH ESTIMATED TOTAL SALES OF ALL GROCERY STORES...
Page 216 - It has been suggested that the 'commerce clause' may warrant the enactment of the statute under consideration. Manifestly, I think, the statute was enacted upon the theory that such was the case. That such is not the case, I think there is no reasonable doubt. The clause reads as follows: 'The Congress shall have power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes.
Page 216 - ... is sent from one State with the expectation that it will end its transit after purchase in another, including, in addition to cases within the above general...
Page 216 - The Congress shall have power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes.' What is commerce? Is it manufacturing? Is slaughtering cattle and sheep and hogs commerce? If so, why is not farming, or stock raising, or manufacturing lumber, or mining? For all these enter into commerce, both domestic and foreign, and are intended for both. "In Gibbons v. Ogden (9 Wheat., Л Chief Justice Marshall said"'Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is...
Page 154 - In 1916, as shown by the figures compiled by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce, the...