Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power: Monograph

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940 - 207 pages
 

Contents

Social performance of the cotton goods industry
9
Social performance of the woolen and worsted goods industry
10
Social performance of the chemical industry
11
Social performance of electric light and power industry
12
Social performance of the iron and steel industry
13
Social performance of the paper and pulp industry
14
Social performance of flour and other grainmill products
15
Social performance of the oil and gas producing industry
16
Social performance of the furniture industry 12 14
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Social performance of the tobacco industry 36
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Social performance of steam railroads_ 23 Social performance of agriculture 23A Family and hired workers in agriculture 25 Social performance of ...
39
Social performance of lumber and timber products industry
40
Groups of Industries
53
Social performance of all manufacturing industries_
58
Social performance of transportation and other public utilities_
63
Social performance of construction_
66
27A Trend of wholesale prices
67
Social performance of government
72
Social performance of finance
73
Social performance of all commercialized service__
75
Social performance of trade
76
Social performance of the General Motors Corporation
84
Social performance of United States Steel Corporation and subsidiaries_ 34 Social performance of the Bell System
88
Social performance of the telephone and telegraph industry
91
All Corporations
95
Dividends interest and taxes all corporations
97
CHAPTER VI
101
Social performance of the economy
102
CHAPTER VII
109
Patterns of social performance_
110
An economic studyThe flow of goods in the United States Face p
113
CHAPTER VIII
119
APPENDIX
125
Statistical Tables
135
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Page 38 - For the purpose of this section two or more domestic corporations shall be deemed to be affiliated (1) if one corporation owns directly or controls through closely affiliated interests or by a nominee or nominees substantially all the stock of the other or others, or (2) if substantially all the stock of two or more corporations is owned or controlled by the same interests.
Page 68 - A distribution made by a corporation to its shareholders in its stock or in rights to acquire its stock shall not be treated as a dividend to the extent that it does not constitute income to the shareholder within the meaning of the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
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Page 121 - P) if such corporation, however created or organized, is formed or availed of for the purpose of preventing the imposition of the surtax upon its shareholders or the shareholders of any other corporation, through the medium of permitting earnings or profits to accumulate instead of being divided or distributed...
Page 221 - To make a full and complete study and investigation with respect to the matters referred to in the President's message of April 29, 1938, on monopoly and the concentration of economic power in and financial control over production and distribution of goods and services...
Page 38 - affiliated group" means one or more chains of corporations connected through stock ownership with a common parent corporation if — (1) At least 95 per centum of the stock of each of the corporations (except the common parent corporation) is owned directly by one or more of the other corporations ; and (2) The common parent corporation owns directly at least...
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Page 38 - Where such branches or units of a business are owned and controlled through the medium of separate corporations, it is necessary to require a consolidated return in order that the invested capital and net income of the entire group may be accurately determined. Otherwise opportunity would be afforded for the evasion of taxation by the shifting of income through price fixing, charges for services and other means by which income could be arbitrarily assigned to one or another unit of the group. In...
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