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Temporary National Economic Committee
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The Temporary National Economic Committee was established by a
joint resolution of Congress (52 Stat. 705) to study monopolies and
concentration of economic power. They worked from 1938 to 1941.
Hearings
- Vol.
1- Economic Prologue (pp. 1-252)
- Vol.
2- Patents (Automobile and Glass Container Industry) (pp. 253-834)
- Vol.
3- Patents (Proposals for Changes in Law and Procedure) (pp. 835-1159)
- Vol.
4- Life Insurance (pp. 1161-1645)
- Vol.
5-Monopolistic Practices in Industries (Development of the Beryllium
Industry) (pp. 1647-2304)
- Vol.
5A- Federal Trade Commission Report on Monopolistic Practices in Industries (pp. 2305-2417)
- Vol.
6- Liquor Industry (pp. 2419-2750)
- Vol.
7- Milk Industry, Poultry Industry (pp. 2751-3282)
- Vol.
8- Problems of the Consumer (pp. 3283-3491)
- Vol.
9- Savings and Investment (pp. 3492-4152)
- Vol.
10- Life Insurance (Intercompany Agreements, Terminations, Savings Bank
Insurance, Legislative Activities) (pp. 4153-4932)
- Vol.
10A- Life Insurance (Operative Results and Investments of the Twenty-Six
Largest Legal Reserve Life Insurance Companies Domiciled in the United
States) (pp. 1-323)
- Vol.
11- Construction Industry (pp. 4933-5593)
- Vol.
12- Industrial Insurance (pp. 5595-6361)
- Vol.
13- Life Insurance (Travelers Insurance Company, Shenandoah Life Insurance
Company, Equitable Life Assurance Company, Southwestern Life Insurance
Company of Dallas, Reinsurance and Rewriting, Illinois Bankers Life
Assurance Company) (pp. 6363-7096)
- Vol.
14- Petroleum Industry, Section 1 (pp. 7097-7696)
- Vol.
14A- Petroleum Industry (pp. 7697-8145)
- Vol.
15- Petroleum Industry, Section 2 (pp. 8147-8730)
- Vol.
15A- Petroleum Industry (Report on Marketing Practices in the Retail
Distribution of Motor Fuel and Motor Lubricant Products (pp. 8731-8835)
- Vol.
16- Petroleum Industry, Section 3 (pp. 8837-9373)
- Vol.
17- Petroleum Industry, Section 4 (pp. 9375-9959)
- Vol.
17A- Petroleum Industry (Replies of Oil Companies to Committee Questionnaire
on Financial Data and Related Topics) (pp. 9961-10213)
- Vol.
18- Iron and Steel Industry (Iron Ore) (pp. 10215-10453)
- Vol.
19- Iron and Steel Industry (General Price Policies) (pp. 10455-10742)
- Vol.
20- Iron and Steel Industry (Price Policies on Specific Products, Pacific
Coast Problems, Steel Export Association) (pp. 10743-11020)
- Vol.
21- War and Prices (pp. 11021-11381)
- Vol.
22- Investment Banking (Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., Harriman Ripley
& Co. Inc., Financing of Chicago Union Station Co. and Pacific Gas and
Electric Co., Charles E. Mitchell- Blythe & Co, Inc.) (pp.
11383-11828)
- Vol.
23- Investment Banking (Financing of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.,
Financing of Railroad Maturities 1935, J.P. Morgan & Co., Morgan Stanley
& Co., Inc) (pp. 11829-12342)
- Vol.
24- Investment Banking (Goldman Sachs & Co., Lehman Brothers, Smith
Barney & Co., Kuhn Loeb & Co., Glore Forgan & Co., the Financing
of Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., Standard Gas & Electric Co., Shell Union
Oil Corp., Concentration in the Management, Underwriting and Sale of
Registered Bond Issues) (pp. 12343-13035)
- Vol.
25- Cartels (pp. 13037-13583)
- Vol.
26- Iron and Steel Industry (United States Steel Corporation Studies, Prices
and Costs) (pp. 13585-14128)
- Vol.
27- Iron and Steel Industry (Distribution and Pricing of Selected Steel
Products, the Basing Point System) (pp. 14129-14694)
- Vol.
28- Life Insurance (Operating Results and Investments) (pp. 14695-15730)
- Vol.
29- Interstate Trade Barriers (pp. 15735-16206)
- Vol.
30, pt. 1- Technology and Concentration of Economic Power (pp.
16207-16757)
- Vol.
30, pt. 2- Technology and Concentration of Economic Power (pp.
16759-17599)
- Vol.
31- Investments, Profits, and Rates of Return for Selected Industries (pp.
17601-18007)
- Vol.
31A- Supplemental Data Submitted to the Temporary National Economic
Committee (pp. 18009-18489)
Monographs
- No.
1- Price Behavior and Business Policy
- No.
2- Families and Their Life Insurance (a Study of 2132 Massachusetts Families
and Their Life Insurance Policies)
- No.
3- Who Pays the Taxes? (Allocation of Federal, State, and Local Taxes to
Consumer Income Brackets)
- No.
4- Concentration and Composition of Individual Incomes, 1918-1937
- No.
5- Industrial Wage Rates, Labor Costs and Price Policies
- No.
6- Export Prices and Export Cartels (Webb-Pomerene Associations)
- No.
7- Measurement of the Social Performance of Business
- No.
8- Toward More Housing
- No.
9- Taxation of Corporate Enterprise
- No.
10- Industrial Concentration and Tariffs
- No.
11- Bureaucracy and Trusteeship in Large Corporations
- No.
12- Profits, Productive Activities and New Investments
- No.
13- Relative Efficiency of Large, Medium-Sized, and Small Business
- No.
14- Hourly Earnings of Employees in Large and Small Enterprises
- No.
15- Financial Characteristics of American Manufacturing Corporations
- No.
16- Antitrust in Action
- No.
17- Problems of Small Business
- No.
18- Trade Association Survey
- No.
19- Government Purchasing- an Economic Commentary
- No.
20- Taxation, Recovery, and Defense
- No.
21- Competition and Monopoly in American Industry
- No.
22- Technology in Our Economy
- No.
23- Agriculture and the National Economy
- No.
24- Consumer Standards
- No.
25- Recovery Plans
- No.
26- Economic Power and Political Pressures
- No.
27- The Structure of Industry
- No.
28- Study of Legal Reserve Life Insurance Companies
- No.
28A- Statement on Life Insurance
- No.
29, pt. 1- The Distribution of Ownership in the 200 Largest Nonfinancial
Corporations
- No.
29, pt. 2- The Distribution of Ownership in the 200 Largest Nonfinancial
Corporations
- No.
30- Survey of Shareholdings in 1,710 Corporations with Securities Listed on
a National Securities Exchange
- No.
31- Patents and Free Enterprise
- No.
32- Economic Standards of Government Price Control
- No.
33- Geographical Differentials in Prices of Building Materials
- No.
34- Control of Unfair Competitive Practices Through Trade Practice
Conference Procedure of the Federal Trade Commission
- No.
35- Large-Scale Organization in the Food Industries
- No. 36- Reports of the Federal Trade Commission on Natural
Gas and Natural Gas Pipe Lines in U.S.A.-- Agricultural Implement and
Machinery Inquiry. Motor Vehicle Industry Inquiry
- No.
37- Saving, Investment, and National Income
- No.
38- A Study of the Construction and Enforcement of the Federal Antitrust
Laws
- No.
39- Control of the Petroleum Industry by Major Oil Companies
- No.
39A- Review and Criticism on Behalf of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) and Sun
Oil Co. of Monograph No. 39 with a Rejoinder by Monograph Author
- No.
40- Regulation of Economic Activities in Foreign Countries
- No.
41- Price Discrimination in Steel
- No.
42- The Basing Point Problem
- No.
43- The Motion Picture Industry- a Pattern of Control
