Stimulation of Live-stock Products: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Sixty-sixth Congress, First Session : on S. 2199 ... S. 2202 ... |
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Page 941 - It appears that five great packing concerns of the country — Swift, Armour, Morris, Cudahy, and Wilson — have attained such a dominant position that they control at will the market in which they buy their supplies, the market in which they sell their products, and hold the fortunes of their competitors in their hands.