Concentration by Competing Raw Fuel Industries in the Energy Market and Its Impact on Small Business: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First [-second] Session, Pursuant to H. Res. 5 and 19 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971 - Power resources |
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Page A-21 - That no corporation engaged in commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital and no corporation subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission shall acquire the whole or any part of the assets of another corporation engaged also in commerce, where in any line of commerce in any section of the country, the effect of such acquisition may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly.
Page A-38 - Unfair methods of competition in commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce, are hereby declared unlawful. "The Commission is hereby empowered and directed to prevent persons, partnerships, or corporations, . . . from using unfair methods of competition in commerce and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce.
Page A-31 - Eastern RR Presidents Conference v. Noerr Motor Freight, Inc., 365 US 127 (1961): United Mine Workers of Am.
Page A-60 - That any person who shall be injured in his business or property by reason of anything forbidden in the antitrust laws may sue therefor in any district court of the United States in the district in which the defendant resides or is found or has an agent, without respect to the amount in controversy, and shall recover threefold the damages by him sustained, and the cost of suit, including a reasonable attorney's fee.
Page A-38 - Act, is to cope with monopolistic tendencies in their incipiency and well before they have attained such effects as would justify a Sherman Act proceeding.
Page A-49 - Specifically, we think that a merger which produces a firm controlling an undue percentage share of the relevant market, and results in a significant increase in the concentration of firms in that market...
Page A-59 - That the several district courts of the United States are hereby invested with jurisdiction to prevent and restrain violations of this Act, and it shall be the duty of the several district attorneys of the United States, in their respective districts, under the direction of the Attorney General, to institute proceedings in equity to prevent and restrain such violations.
Page 114 - In a related area, it is also pertinent to observe that the safety record of civilian power reactors in this country is extraordinary in the history of technological advances. For more than a quarter century— since the first nuclear chain reaction took place — no member of the public has been injured by the failure of a reactor or by an accidental release of radioactivity.
Page A-26 - ... was intended to be the measure used for the purpose of determining whether in a given case a particular act had or had not brought about the wrong against which the statute provided. And a consideration of the text of the second section...
Page 113 - ... industrial facilities, and in some of our older facilities as well. Together, these two factors — growing demand for energy and growing emphasis on cleaner fuels — will create an extraordinary pressure on our fuel supplies. The task of providing sufficient clean energy is made especially difficult by the long lead times required to increase energy supply. To move from geological exploration to oil and gas well production now takes from 3 to 7 years. New coal mines typically require 3 to 5...