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FEDERAL

VOLUME 9

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1934

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NUMBER 221

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Washington, Saturday November 4 1944
Regulations TITLE 16COMMERCIAL PRACTICES
Chapter IFederal Trade Commission Docket No. 4798
P art 3D igest of C ease and D esist Orders WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO., ET AL.

3.7 Aiding, assisting and abetting unfair or unlawful act or practice: 3.30
c 5 Cutting off competitors access to customers or market-interfering with competitive bids or price quotations:
3.72 c 10 Offering deceptive induce ments to purchase or dealFictitious bids or price quotations: 3.92 Submit ting sham or fictitious bids or price quo tations. In connection with the offering for sale, sale, and distribution of electric cable, electric wire, electric switches, conduit, fittings, condulets, potheads, cableheads; transformers, insulators, lighting fixtures, lamps, and accessories, or other electrical equipment or supplies, in commerce, 1 conveying or assisting in conveying to buyers or prospective buyers, or to any official or awarding authority of any Federal agency, Or to any one contracting with such agency, or to any one acting for or on behalf of such agency or for or on behalf of any contractor with such agency, any repre sentation that any two or more apparent sellers are rival bidders or competitors, when in reality they are acting collusively in preparing and submitting bids;
2 aiding, assisting, or cooperating in any manner in the submission of any sham, fictitious, fraudulent, or non-com petitive bids or price quotations to any buyer or prospective buyer, or to any Federal agency or any one acting for or on its behalf, or for or on behalf of any
party purchasing material or equipment in fulfillment of a contract with such agency; 3 interfering with or assisting in interfering with the procurement or consideration of genuinely competitive bids or price quotations by any Federal agency or any official or awarding au thority of suoh agency, or by any buyer or prospective buyer; 4 promoting, estab lishing, carrying out, or continuing any act or practice for the purpose or with the effect, of maintaining or presenting a false appearance of competition between or among sellers in the submission of price quotations or bids to buyers or pros pective buyers; or 5 arranging or at tempting to arrange for the filing of any bid in the name of one ostensibly com peting bidder when the prices and terms are in fact determined by some other bidder or when in fact the bid is not a bona fide bid; prohibited, subject to the provision, however, that nothing con tained in -this order shall be deemed to prohibit any lawful action under any lawful license agreement under any pat ent. Sec. 5, 38 Stat. 719 as amended by sec. 3, 52 Stat. 112; 15 U.S.C., sec. 45b Cease and desist order, Westinghouse Electric Supply Company et al., Docket 4798, September 29, 1944J
In the Matter of Westinghouse Electric Supply Company, a Corporation, and R. R. Dewees, Individually and as an Agent of Westinghouse Electric Supply Company At a regular session o the Federal Trade Commission, held at its office in the City of Washington, D. C., on the 29th day of September A. D. 1944.
This proceeding having been heard by the Federal Trade Commission upon the complaint of the Commission and the substitute answers of the respondents, in which answers respondents WestingContinued on next page
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REGULATIONS AND NOTICES
A lien P roperty Custodian;

Hearings:
Page CoJos International Co., for Commerce and Industry, Irc_____________
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Heins, Richard D__________ 13172
Vesting orders:
Copyrights of certain foreign nationals______________ 13171
Hansen, Wilhelm, MusikForlag______________ 13170
Musser, A. Babetta__ ________13168
Nofield, Adolph A ________13169
Oest, John Henry__________ 13169
Reichrath, Margaret B_____13169
Von Oy, William____ ______ 13170
Weiter, John H____________ 13170
Coast G uard:

Approval of equipment Corr._ 13184
Vessels engaged in business .con nected with war; waiver of compliance with certain provisions______________ 13167
F arm S ecurity A dministration:

Pike County, Ohio; designation of localities for loans_____13184
F ederal T rade C ommission :

Hearings, etc.:
Ferro Enamel Corp., et al___ 13168
Oppenheimer Casing Co., Inc., et - al____ ____________ 13168
Westinghouse Electric Supply Co., et al.; cease and desist order___ ___
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I nterstate Commerce Commission :

Cotton, movement from desig nated points____________ 13167
O ffice of D efense T ransportation :

Common carriers, coordinated operations:
Fort Worth and Whitesboro, TSx_________________ 13173
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