Investigation of concentration of economic power; monograph no. 1[-43] (1940)

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Title:
Investigation of concentration of economic power; monograph no. 1[-43]
Date:
1940
Publisher:
Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
Volume:
Investigation of concentration of economic power; monograph no. 1[-43]
Leaf #:
00027
Language:
English
Subjects:
United States -- Economic conditions 1918-1945, United States -- Economic policy
Collection:
Government & Law and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Boston Public Library
Sponsor:
Kahle/Austin Foundation and Omidyar Network
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
no. 1. Price behavior and business policy -- no. 2. Families and their live insurance. A study of 2132 Massachusetts familioes and their life insurance policies -- no. 3. Who pays the taxes? -- no. 4. Concentration and composition of individual incomes, 1918-1937 -- no. 5. Industrial wage rates, labor costs and price policies -- no. 6. Export prices and export cartels (Webb-Pomerene associations) -- no. 7. Measurement of the social performance of buisness -- no. 8. Toward more housing -- no. 9. Taxation of corporate enterprise -- no. 10. Industrial concentration and tariffs -- no. 11. Bureaucracy and trusteeship in large corporations -- no. 12. Profits, productive activities and new investment -- no. 13. Relative efficiency of large, medium-sized, and small business -- no. 14. Hourly earnings of employees in large and small enterprises -- no. 15. Financial characteristics of American manufacturing corporations -- no. 16. Antitrust in action -- no. 17. Problems of small business -- no. 18. Trade association survey -- no. 19. Government purchasing-- an economic commentary -- no. 20. Taxation, recovery, and defense -- no. 21. Competition and monopoly in American industry -- no. 22. Technology in our economy -- no. 23. Agriculture and the national economy -- no. 24. Consumers standards -- no. 25. Recovery plans -- no. 26. Economic power and political pressures -- no. 27. The structure of industry -- no. 28. Study of legal reserve life insurance companies -- no. 28A. Statement on life insurance -- no. 29. The distribution of ownership in the 200 largest nonfinancial corporations -- no. 30. Survey of shareholdings in 1,710 corporations with securities listed on a national securities exchange -- no. 31. Patents and free enterprise -- no. 32. Economic standards of government price control -- no. 33. Geographical differentials in prices of building materials -- no. 34. Control of unfair competitive practices through trade practice conference procedure of the Federal trade commission -- no. 35. Large-scale organization in the food industries -- no. 36. Reports of the Federal trade commission on natural gas and natural gas pipe lines in U.S.A.-- Agricultural implement and machinery inquiry. Motor vehicle industry inquiry -- no. 37. Saving, investment, and national income -- no. 38. A study of the construction and enforcement of the federal antitrust laws -- no. 39. Control of the petroleum industry by major oil companies -- no. 39A. Review and criticism on behalf of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) and Sun Oil Co. of Monograph no. 39 with rejoinder by monograph author -- no. 40. Regulation of economic activities in foreign countries -- no. 41. Price discrimination in steel -- no. 42. The basing point problem -- no. 43. The motion picture industry-- a pattern of control
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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CONCENTRATION OF ECONOMIC POWER 11 While these theaters represent but 16 percent of all theaters in operation, they take on added significance when it is noted that more than 80 percent of all metropolitan first-run theaters '^ are affiliated; in 23 key cities all of the first-nm theaters are affiliated (table 3)'; out of 92 cities with population over 100,000 the majors control exhibition in 73 cities (table 4); in these same 73 cities the majors "operate enough first-nni theaters in each to receive a sub- stantial majority of the total film revenue supplied by each of these cities"; there are 283 cities with populations between 25,000 and 100,000 in 200 of which the majors operate one or more theaters; "by control of first-run theaters alone, affiliated exhibitors have been able to secure as much as two-thirds of the total theater admissions paid in cities as large as 250,000"; and the affiliates control exhibition in all United States cities with populations of more than 1,000,000.^*^ Table ^.—Number of first-run metro'politajt theaters operated by each of the major companies in 35 key cities, 19^0 City Albany. NT. Y.i Atlanta, Ga.. Baltimore, Md Boston, Mass.' Brooklyn, N. Y.' Charlotte, N. C. Chicago, 111.1 Cincinnati, Ohio > Cleveland, Ohio ' Dallas, Tex.i_ Denver, Colo Des Moines, Iowa ' Detroit, Mich Houston, Tex.' Indianapolis, Ind. Kansas City, Mo.' Los Angeles, Calif. Memphis, Tenn.' Milwaukee, Wis.' Minneapolis, Minn.'... Newark, N. J.' New Haven, Conn.' New Orleans, La.' New York City Oklahoma City, Okla.'. Omaha, Nebr.' Philadelphia, Pa.' Pittsburgh, Pa Portland, Oreg Salt Lake City, Utah'. St. Louis, Mo St. Paul, Minn.' San Francisco, Calif Seattle, Wash Washington, D. C Total. Para- mount 63 Loew's Twen- tieth Century- Fo.x Warner Bros. Radio- Keith- Orpheum 35 29 ' In cities thus marked, all first-run theaters are operated by these companies. Source: United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., et al., civil action No. 87-273, in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of N'ew York, amended and supplemental complaint, Nov. 14, 1940. " A metropolitan theater is one located in a key city. A key city is one of such size and strategic location that the first-run exhibition of a motion picture therein effectively advertises the film among exhibitors and the public in a wide surrounding area; 31 such cities constitute the main distributing centers of the major companies. A first-run theater is one which exhibits flrst-class features released by one or more of the majorsonaflrst-run showing in the city or town in which it is located. An affiliated theater is one which is either owned or controlled by 1 of the 5 major producer-distributor-exhibitor companies. 2» United States v. Paramount, 1940.