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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 #:
000107
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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INDEX 89 Page Louis B. Mayer Pictures, Inc 60 Lowell, A. Lawrence 34 Lubin , 4 Lynch, S. A 13 Lyric Theater . 28 McDonough, J. R 68 Mannix, Edgar J _ 68 Melies 4 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation 7, 47, 60 Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation 60 Metro Pictures Corporation 60 MilHken, Carl E 68 Motion Picture Almanac (1935-36); cited 65 Motion-picture industry: Arbitration 83-85 Blind selling ._ 22,30-34,77-79 Block-booking . 22-26, 77-79 Charges against- 73, 74 Circuits passim Clearance and zoning 40-45, 73, 80, 81 Consent decree 73-85 Consumer consideration 23, 24, 29, 45, 56 Dates of exhibition fixed 22, 34, 35 Distribution to exhibitors 3-6, 9-16, 19-47, 73-85 Expansion ^ 5, 6 Forcing of short films 22-30, 74, 79 Geographical spheres of control 14-16, 74 Hays organization. {See Motion Picture Producers and Dis- tributors of America, Inc.) Independent exhibitors 1 passim Major companies 8, 59-62, 73, 74 Monopolistic practices ^ passim Nature of study ix Number of companies ^ .. 8 Observations : 53-56 Origin 3 Overbuying 36-39 Run 81,82 Score charge ^ 35, 73 Selective contracts 39, 73 Sound pictures 6, 7, 35 Specified admission prices 40, 41, 45-47, 73 Talent exchange 13, 14, 16, 73 Theater ownership _.•- __ 6-16, 35, 73, 74, 82, 83 Trade practices 21-49, 73, 74 Motion Picture Patents Co . 4, 7 Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc 6, 17, 25, 65-69 Advertising Advisory Council ^--- 66 Community service department 67 Conservation department 67 Copyright bureau 67 Film boards of trade ^ 67 Foreign department 67 Generai counsel 67 Legal department 67 Office of the president 67 Officers and members 68 Production Code Administration , 66 Public information department *67 Title registration bureau 66 Theater service department 67 Treasury and accounting department . 67 Motion Picture Research Council ^ 76 Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America 8 Motion Picture Yearbook (1940); cited 45 Movietone 7