Excerpt from Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power: Hearings Before the Temporary National Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Seventy-Sixth Congress, First Session Pursuant to Public Resolution No. 113; Part 6-8; Liquor Industry; March 14, 15, 16, and 17, 1939 Present also: Willis J. Ballinger, Director of Studies and Economic Adviser to the Federal Trade Commission; Phillip Buck, General Counsel; and John P. Brown, attorney, Federal Alcohol Administra tion. The chairman. The committee will please come to order. My apologies must again be presented to the members who have been de layed here and to others in attendance, but my presence on the floor of the Senate was necessary during the consideration of the Treasury and Post Cilice appropriation bill by reason of several amendments which I had to sponsor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.