...great stretch of imagination is required to foresee that if nothing is done to check the growth of concentration, either the giant corporations will...form of direct regulation in the public interest." President Grover Cleveland, back in 1896, in his annual message to Congress declared: "Another topic...

...Trade Commission, when in 1948 in one of its periodic reports to Congress, said : "No great stretch of imagination is required to foresee that if nothing is done to check the growth of concentration, either the giant corporations will ultimately take over the country, or the Government...

...Trade Commission, when in 1948 in one of its periodic reports to Congress, said : "No great stretch of imagination is required to foresee that if nothing is done to check the growth of concentration, either the giant corporations will ultimately take over the country, or the Government...

...great stretch of imagination is required to foresee that if nothing is done to check the growth of concentration, either the giant corporations will...impelled to step in and impose some form of direct régulation in the public interest." This measure recognizes, as did 45 out of the 48 States in the...

...Congress voiced grave fears over corporate growth and concentration when it said : "No great stretch of imagination is required to foresee that if nothing is done to check the growth of concentration, either the giant corporations will ulimately take over the country, or the Government...

...REPORT ON THE MERGER MOVEMENT: A SUMMARY REPORT 68 (1948) ("If nothing is done to check the growth of concentration, either the giant corporations will...Government will be impelled to step in and impose some direct regulation in the public interest"); Rostow, The New Sherman Act: A Positive Instrument of Progress,...

...in the United States had disappeared through acquisitions of small firms. The report warned: [N] o great stretch of the imagination is required to foresee...form of direct regulation in the public interest. 27 The problem in 1950, as it had been in 1890 and 1914, was how to write a law that responded to those...

...assets of all manufacturing corporations had been swallowed by corporate acquisitions. The report warned that "if nothing is done to check the growth in concentration,...form of direct regulation in the public interest." 106 101 SULLIVAN, supra note 63, at 590. 102 Robert Pitof&ky, The Political Content of Antitrust, 127U....

...in 1948 showed that the US was undergoing an alarming wave of corporate acquisitions and warned that 'no great stretch of the imagination is required to...ultimately take over the country, or the government will be 6. Both the DoJ and the FTC, the latter constituted in the Fair Trade Commission Act, have the power...

...upon its studies, a finding and a warning that every American should read. The Commission states : "No great stretch of the imagination is required to...foresee that if nothing is done to check the growth of concentration, either the giant corporations will ultimately take over the country, or the Government...