Small Business and the Quality of American Life: A Compilation of Source Material on the Relationship Between Small Business and the Quality of Life, 1946-76 |
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Page 354 - ... unfair acts in the importation of articles into the United States, or in their sale by the owner, importer, consignee, or agent of either, the effect or tendency of which is to destroy or substantially injure an industry, efficiently and economically operated, in the United States...
Page 394 - Bank to cooperate fully with the Secretary of Commerce and the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to develop a program for purposes of disseminating information (using existing private institutions) to small business concerns regarding the medium-term financing provided under this paragraph.
Page 418 - The consequence of all these causes has been, a great subdivision of the soil, and a great equality of condition ; the true basis, most certainly, of a popular government.
Page 299 - Hamberg of the University of Maryland studied major inventions made during the decade 1946-55 and found that over two-thirds of them resulted from the work of independent inventors and small companies.* Professor Merton Peck of Harvard studied 149 inventions in aluminum welding, fabricating techniques and aluminum finishing.
Page 418 - They were themselves either from their original condition, or from the necessity of their common interest, nearly on a general level in respect to property. Their situation demanded a parcelling out and division of the lands, and it may be fairly said that this necessary act fixed the future frame and form of their government.* The character of their political institutions was determined by the fundamental laws respecting property. . . . The consequence of all these causes has been a great subdivision...
Page 394 - Proceedings of the President's Conference on Technical and Distribution Research for the Benefit of Small Business, Washington, DC 34.
Page 344 - If any person (other than a contract market) is manipulating or attempting to manipulate or has manipulated or attempted to manipulate the market price of any commodity, in interstate commerce, or for future delivery on or subject to the rules of any contract market, or otherwise is violating or has violated any of the provisions of this...
Page 407 - Founded in 1936 by the Association of National Advertisers and the American Association of Advertising Agencies, the...
Page 418 - They came to a new country. There were, as yet, no lands yielding rent, and no tenants rendering service. The whole soil was unreclaimed from barbarism. They were themselves, either from their original condition, 'or from the necessity of their common interest, nearly on a general level in respect to property.
Page 379 - Federal regulation should be extended to all mergers of banking institutions. Combined with the requirement for advance notice, this extension of the law would give the Government an opportunity to prevent mergers that are likely to result in undue restraint of banking competition. Third, * * * the Clayton Act should be amended to make explicit the Federal Government's authority to take action in merger transactions in which either party is engaged in interstate commerce.