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Time was when any U.S. merchant was free to sell anything in the house at any price he set. But now, for a steadily growing list of "brand-name" products, such free competition is forbidden by law in 45 U.S. states. In addition to radio & television sets, the list includes drugs, books, jewelry, liquor, sporting goods, kitchenware, cigars, cosmetics, electric appliances...
...increased in an unexpected way. The attraction of "sure profits" on fixed prices lured thousands of new merchants into business. As they scrambled for customers, price-cutting returned in another form. Now, in order to undersell the "protected" independents, most large chain stores put out their own brands. R. S. Macy & Co. has over 1,400 such items. Gimbels offers its own brand of bonded liquor...
Americans who feel that ERP can be used as a weapon to force our brand of free enterprise on Europe are making a serious mistake, warns economics professor Seymour Harris...
...liquidation, it would also mean agricultural collectivism, without which land-redistribution would be meaningless since "khulaks" would forever rise above the others and stifle them economically. As Russia's experience in the field of collectivization would be too valuable to be ignored, the Chinese Communists, regardless how different their "brand" of Communism is, would have to welcome Soviet technical, administrative, and material aid and advice. Follows the vociferous Soviet propaganda, and the ubiquitous Soviet secret agents, and from them on it is the monotonously familiar performance that Russia has acted out for us time and again in central Europe...
...despair many Americans will draw an in exact parallel with Czechoslovakia. Although the extent of the tie between the Chinese Communists and Moscow is not clear, it is obvious that their form of communism is radically different from the Russian variety. The Chinese brand is based not on an urban but on an agrarian economy. Industrial backwardness prevents the quick establishment of a police state. Moreover, since the Communists must use the same bureaucracy to carry out its administration, they must modify their demands to make them acceptable to this group...