Economic Concentration: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, Second Session [-Ninety-first Congress, First Session].U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970 - Big business |
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200 largest manufacturing accounting acquired company acquiring firm acquisition agencies anticompetitive antitrust laws antitrust policy assets acquired average BLAIR business combination Chairman CHUMBRIS Clayton Act committee common stock competition competitors concentrated industries concentration ratio conglom conglomerate companies conglomerate mergers Corp cost COULTER courts diversification diversified firms divestiture earnings per share economic effect efficiency enforcement entry existing fair value Federal Trade Commission glomerate growth income increase industry groups intangible assets investment issued large firms leading firms legislation market power market share measures ment merger activity merger movement merging million monopoly power MUELLER oligopoly operations patent percent performance period pooling of interests potential price discrimination price/earnings ratios problem Professor profits purchase reason reciprocity require result Robinson-Patman Act securities sellers Senator HART Sherman Act significant staff report statement stockholders structure subcommittee substantial Table tion total assets vertical mergers
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Page 5022 - As a charter of freedom, the Act has a generality and adaptability comparable to that found to be desirable in constitutional provisions.
Page 5007 - Act, when and under the same conditions and principles as injunctive relief against threatened conduct that will cause loss or damage is granted by courts of equity, under the rules governing such proceedings, and upon the execution of proper bond against damages for an injunction improvidently granted and a showing that the danger of irreparable loss or damage is immediate, a preliminary injunction may issue...
Page 5007 - This section shall not apply to corporations purchasing such stock solely for investment and not using the same by voting or otherwise to bring about, or in attempting to bring about, the substantial lessening of competition.
Page 5019 - The offense of monopoly under § 2 of the Sherman Act has two elements: (1) the possession of monopoly power in the relevant market and (2) the willful acquisition or maintenance of that power as distinguished from growth or development as a consequence of a superior product, business acumen, or historic accident.
Page 5007 - Nor shall anything contained in this section prevent a corporation engaged in commerce from causing the formation of subsidiary corporations for the actual carrying on of their immediate lawful business, or the natural and legitimate branches or extensions thereof, or from owning and holding all or a part of the stock of such subsidiary corporations, when the effect of such formation is not to substantially lessen competition.
Page 5097 - Other considerations cited in support of the bill were the desirability of retaining "local control" over industry and the protection of small businesses. Throughout the recorded discussion may be found examples of Congress...
Page 5097 - Monopoly, besides, is a great enemy to good management, which can never be universally established, but in consequence of that free and universal competition, which forces everybody to have recourse to it for the sake of self-defence.
Page 5007 - sales" shall mean annual gross sales, gross income, gross receipts, or, if no such amount Is applicable, the corresponding amount, whichever is largest, as set forth in reports filed by a firm with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or...
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Page 5097 - In any competitive economy we cannot avoid injury to some of the competitors. The law does not, and under the free enterprise system it cannot, guarantee businessmen against loss. That businessmen lose money or even go bankrupt does not necessarily mean that competition has been injured. 'Competition,