Guide to the Theodore John Kreps Papers
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Overview
Call Number: SC0207
Creator:
Kreps, Theodore John, 1897-
Title: Theodore John Kreps Papers
Dates: 1926-1962
Physical Description:
6.75 Linear feet
Summary: Reports, memos, surveys, statistics, legal documents, and
some printed material. Arrangement is chronological. Subjects included are cartels,
anti-trust , labor, conservation, investment, reciprocal trade, government
purchasing, production, government regulations, inflation, land-lease, war
mobilization, and international trade.
Language(s): The materials are inEnglish.
Repository:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives.
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Stanford, CA 94305
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
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Biography
Theodore John Kreps, born 13 January 1897 in Prinsburg, Minnesota, received his Ph.D
from Harvard in 1928. He was professor of business economics at Stanford (1930-1962;
emeritus, 1962- ).
| 1897, January 13 |
Born, Prinsburg, Minnesota |
| 1917-1919 |
1st Lt..A.B.F. |
| 1919 |
Married Esther E1vira Cersberg (six children) |
| 1920 |
A.B., University of Cclorado |
| 1920-1923 |
Instructor of history and economics at Colorado State °rep. -
Boulder
|
| 19214 |
A.N., Harvard |
| 1925-1930 |
Instructor of economics and tutor history, government and eccnomics at
Harvard
|
| 1926 |
Frederick Sheldon Fellow |
| 1928 |
Ph.D., Harvard |
| 1928-1929 |
Laura Spelman Rockefeller Fellow, Bureau of International
Research
|
| 1930 |
At Stanford since 1930 |
| l935 |
Chief, Statistics Section, National Recovery Administration; Chairman,
Co-ordinating Committee of Central Statistical Board and Works Progress
Administration
|
| 1936 December |
Representative U.S. Government to Preparatory Technical Tripartite
Conference on Reduction of Hours in Chemical Industry, Geneva,
Switzerland
|
| 1937, Summer |
Economic Adviser U.S. Maritime Commission 1938, 1941-1945 Economic
Adviser, Anti-trust Division, Department of Justice
|
| 1939-1940 |
Economic Adviser, Temporary National Economic Commission |
| 1914, Summer |
Chief Consultant, Office of Price Administration |
| 1942-1941 |
Chief Economic Adviser, Board of Economic Warfare |
| 1949-1951 |
Staff Director of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report |
| 1951 |
Ford Foundation exchange Professor to the Free University of Ber1in,
Author of books, articles and reviews
|
Description of the Collection
Reports, memos, surveys, statistics, legal documents, and some printed material.
Arrangement is chronological. Subjects included are cartels, anti-trust , labor,
conservation, investment, reciprocal trade, government purchasing, production,
government regulations, inflation, land-lease, war mobilization, and international
trade.
Access Terms
Kreps, Theodore John, 1897-
Managerial economics.
Collection Contents
Box 1, Folder 1
1926-1929
Scope and Content Note
Cartel speeches; Webb-Pomerene Act; League of Nations publications
(International Labour Office & Economic & Financial Section -
standard of living of workers, dumping, monopolies); Federal Trade
Commission anti-trust hearing; Income.
Box 1, Folder 2
1930-1933
Scope and Content Note
Price fixing; Cartels - German; Electrical industry trade practice rules;
National Unemployment Program of the People's Lobby; Conservation (lumber);
Dye Cartel; Investment.
Box 1, Folder 3
1934
Scope and Content Note
Social audit; Anti-trust; Wholesale Drug Industry trade practice rules;
Labor; Corporations.
Box 1, Folder 4
1935
Scope and Content Note
Reciprocal trade - chemical; Government purchasing; profits, losses &
business assets; German tobacco industry; Labor; Hugh B. White memo on
corrosion resisting steel; Fire extinguishers; anti-trust; A.F. of L.
Monthly Survey of Business; 1926 Price level; Exchange of corresnondence
with Dept. of State re: entry of foreign ships into U.S. ports (copies);
Investment; Production & Price Control in Bituminous Coal Mining.
Box 1, Folder 5
1936
Scope and Content Note
The Consumer, Statistics on Copper, 1926 Price level; Labor; Resale Price
(Goodyear case); Government stimuli (silver policy); Formal complaints of
Federal Trade Commission for unfair competition and price discrimination
(anti-trust); answer to complaint; hearing; National Consumer News Proposed
Revision of Anti-trust Laws; Foreign Systems Communist Election Platform;
Consumer Credit, Debt & taxes.
Box 2, Folder 6
1937
Scope and Content Note
Anti-trust; 1926 Price level; Depreciation reserve policies; Industrial
mobilization Plan; Housing; Resale price maintenance; unfair competition;
Consumers' Research Bulletin; Labor; Primary producers; International
organization of Big Business; Burial vaults; Tax; American Merchant Marine;
Government aid; Technical Progress & Agricultural Depression; Food &
Drugs Act; Installment selling; Price & production control in British
industry; Conservation; Agriculture; Bus, reserves & economic
stability.
Box 2, Folder 7
1937
Scope and Content Note
Anti-trust; 1926 Price level; Depreciation reserve policies; Industrial
mobilization Plan; Housing; Resale price maintenance; unfair competition;
Consumers' Research Bulletin; Labor; Primary producers; International
organization of Big Business; Burial vaults; Tax; American Merchant Marine;
Government aid; Technical Progress & Agricultural Depression; Food &
Drugs Act; Installment selling; Price & production control in British
industry; Conservation; Agriculture; Bus, reserves & economic
stability.
Box 2, Folder 8
1938
Scope and Content Note
Price competition; Price discrimination; Fence Consumers'Research Bulletin;
Conservation; Income Tax; Silver; Summaries of Federal Trade Commission
cases, etc.; Recession; 1926 Price level; Statistical Handbook on Federal
Finances; Problem of Big Business; Patents investigation; Canadian Tobacco
Distribution Combine; Government Aid; Housing -paint & varnish; Caltar
Dyes; Re-sale Price Maintenance; Raw materials; Tariff Removal; Trade
Barriers; Consumer Protection; Electrical - anti-trust case; small
business
Box 2, Folder 9
1938
Scope and Content Note
Price competition; Price discrimination; Fence Consumers'Research Bulletin;
Conservation; Income Tax; Silver; Summaries of Federal Trade Commission
cases, etc.; Recession; 1926 Price level; Statistical Handbook on Federal
Finances; Problem of Big Business; Patents investigation; Canadian Tobacco
Distribution Combine; Government Aid; Housing -paint & varnish; Caltar
Dyes; Re-sale Price Maintenance; Raw materials; Tariff Removal; Trade
Barriers; Consumer Protection; Electrical - anti-trust case; small
business
Box 2, Folder 10
1938
Scope and Content Note
Price competition; Price discrimination; Fence ConSumers'Research Bulletin;
Conservation; Income Tax; Silver; Summaries of Federal Trade Commission
cases, etc.; Recession; 1926 Price level; Statistical Handbook on Federal
Finances; Problem of Big Business; Patents investigation; Canadian Tobacco
Distribution Combine; Government Aid; Housing -paint & varnish; Caltar
Dyes; Re-sale Price Maintenance; Raw materials; Tariff Removal; Trade
Barriers; Consumer Protection; Electrical - anti-trust case; small
business
Box 3, Folder 12
1939 March-April
Scope and Content Note
Trade barriers; American rural refugees; Primary producers; Government
investment; Consumer protection; Investment problem; Labor
Box 3, Folder 13
l939 May-July
Scope and Content Note
Potash; Unfair competition (Robinson-Patman); Consumer protection; Tariff
removal; International Cartels (I.G. Farben, etc.); Federal Surplus
Commodities Corporation; Prices; Electric Home and Farm Authority
Investment; Interstate trade barriers; Industries
Box 3, Folder 14
1939 August
Scope and Content Note
Government subsidies (Monopoly Control Bill); Ownership; Government
regulation.
Box 3, Folder 15
1939 September
Scope and Content Note
Anti-trust indictments and complaints (unfair competition, cartels,
etc.).
Box 3, Folder 16
1939 October-December
Scope and Content Note
Labor; Anti-trust complaints; Consumer protection; Government Information
Handbook (?); Planned society; Business Publicity; Government subsidies (and
TLS 1940 of George C. Gaede); Government regulation (of competition);
Govenment regulation (of competition); labor; Labor costs; National
Association of Manufacturers; l926 Price level; Price stabilization (British
Program for Armament Plant Expansion, 1935, 1939); Resale.
Box 3, Folder 17
1940 January-April
Scope and Content Note
Manufacture (NLR Act) Labor (T.L.S. of M.H. Hedges, Director of Research,
International Brotherhood of Electrical workers); Anti-trust findings,
orders indictment, complaint; Trade Practice conf. agreements; Anti-trust
Laws; Fire equipment; American shipping needs; Small Business
(Robinson-Patma); Technology; Labor.
Box 4, Folder 18
1940 May-August
Scope and Content Note
National Business affairs; Recovery program; Anti-trust; agents; Cost of
Flotation for Small issues; Capital structure; Telephone service; A.F. of L.
Monthly Survey of Business; National Defense; Optical; Fair Trade and Unfair
Practices Acts.
Box 5, Folder 19
1940 September-December
Scope and Content Note
Anti-trust; Industry's Job Under the Defense Program; National Defense;
Basing Point; Brink-of-War Planning Capital Expansion, Employment &
Economic Stability-; Government Purchasing; Labor; Trade barriers; "Why
France Fell."
Box 5, Folder 20
l941 January-March
Scope and Content Note
California Government income and expenditures; Anti-trust British Wartime
Control of Copper, Lead & Zinc; Consumer Education; Individual annual
savings and underspending; "Amortization Deduction;" T.L.S. re: Fair Trade
and Unfair Practices Act; Labor.
Box 5, Folder 21
1941 April-November
Scope and Content Note
Voluntary standards; Anti-trust & Defense Program and Price indexes;
Governmental Defense Program; Governmental marketing barriers; Anti-trust
violation; Dept. of Justice, minutes of and memos to Policy Board of
Anti-trust Division (Temporary National Economic Division); National
Defense, Industry and Profiteering (group of letters and papers going back
to 1939, includes T.L.S W.J. Buttfield, Arthur B. Gardner); American
Merchant Marine; Economic Defense Board; Food Service Equipment; Pipe Line
Costs Tariffs; Calif. Fields; National Resources Commission; Consumer
Education; Labor; Argentine tungsten; China tungsten (back to 1940).
Box 5, Folder 22
1941 December and n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Britain - inflation; Palmer Harmon shipping situation (from July), Merchant
Marine, etc. (A.H.S. Palmer Harmon to Mr. Farley); Fats & oils; Deficit
Spending and the Defense Effort 1931 - 19141" (paper for Business 390 in
Autumn l941 by Lawrence V. Metcalf and C. Howard Janin); Anti-trust;
German-Argentina; Compulsory licensing; German Military Administration in
Occupied France (diagram); The Soviet Power; Price Ceiling Regulations;
Canadian Industries, Ltd.; Trade Barriers
Box 5, Folder 23
1941 December and n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Britain - inflation; Palmer Harmon shipping situation (from July), Merchant
Marine, etc. (A.H.S. Palmer Harmon to Mr. Farley); Fats & oils; Deficit
Spending and the Defense Effort 1931 - 19141" (paper for Business 390 in
Autumn l941 by Lawrence V. Metcalf and C. Howard Janin); Anti-trust;
German-Argentina; Compulsory licensing; German Military Administration in
Occupied France (diagram); The Soviet Power; Price Ceiling Regulations;
Canadian Industries, Ltd.; Trade Barriers
Box 5, Folder 24
1942 January-April
Scope and Content Note
Inflation; Price Supply Controls - chemical industry; Nationa.l Defense;
League of Nations Association Iron and Steel Scrap (memo by W.S. Whitehead);
CAA Medical Exams; Patents; Labor; Cotton - Haiti; Reoccupied areas;
antimony; Corning Glass and G.E. - lamp case; Lend lease - Board of Economic
Warfare; Cotton - Peru; Price ceiling; Rubber - Peru; Metals Mexico;
anti-trust and Advertising; Mobilization of Resources; Importation from
Soviet Union.
Box 5, Folder 25
1942 May-June
Scope and Content Note
Rubber- Costa Rica, Nicaragua; Rotenone - Peru; Fats and oils; Indian
shellac; Flax - Peru; Quebracho; Henequen - Mexico; Australian Economic
Control; Strategic materials - Latin America; Reconstruction; British
relations; Price Control; Raw materials; Rubber survey; Quinine - Costa Rica
Petroleum industry; Anti-trust; Warsaw Ghetto economic condition - German
financing.
Box 5, Folder 26
1942 May-June
Scope and Content Note
Rubber- Costa Rica, Nicaragua; Rotenone - Peru; Fats and oils; Indian
shellac; Flax - Peru; Quebracho; Henequen - Mexico; Australian Economic
Control; Strategic materials - Latin America; Reconstruction; British
relations; Price Control; Raw materials; Rubber survey; Quinine - Costa Rica
Petroleum industry; Anti-trust; Warsaw Ghetto economic condition - German
financing.
Box 5, Folder 27
1942 July
Scope and Content Note
Axis activities - Latin America; BEW operations Anti-Malarials procurement;
Canadian nickel; Industrial diamonds; Economic intelligence; Preclusive
buying; Alcohol sales; Rubber, tungsten, tin -Bolivia; Cotton - Nicaragua;
Balsa wood - Ecuador; Australia - specified articles production capacity
(clothing, troops); Labor and Population Intelligence (International);
Quinine; Rubber - Ecuador; Quebracho (TLS of James S. Martin) - anti-trust;
public utility taxation; Rubber - Honduras.
Box 5, Folder 28
1942 August
Scope and Content Note
Export and Trade Control - Latin America; Rubber - Trinidad and Tobago, Br.
Honduras, Br. Guiana; Ixtl Mexico; Netherlands Indies Intelligence; Abaca
-Costa Rica; - Imports; Rubber - El Salvador; Peru - economic and political
Raw materials regulation; Chile -prices of metals, etc.; Postwar - Pacific
relations.
Box 5, Folder 29
1942 September-October
Scope and Content Note
Rubber - Guatemala; Mahogany - Guatemala; Rubber - Mexico; Rubber survey;
BEW operations; Sisal - Mexico; Abaca - Guatemala, Honduras; Rubber -
Panama; United Nations Raw Materials administration; U.S. Aviation Corp. -
French subsidiary; Canadian metals; German trademarks; coffee, Agave -
Haiti; Joint Preemption; Money exchange - Chile; Metals -Minerals Division
Progress Report; Brazil - publicty for rubber program, etc.; Flax - Canada;
Labor clauses - BEW; Inflation - Bolivia; Labor reserve - Mexico; South
African War Program - aid; Rubber - Venezuela; Chile - economic conditions;
Critical materials; Fibers; Inflation - Cnile; Brazil - economic conditions;
Labor clauses - Metals Reserve Co. - Bolivia and Montezuma Copper Co.,
Mexico
Box 6, Folder 30
1942 November
Scope and Content Note
Cocoa - Brazil; Inflation - Bolivia; Cartels; Raw materials; Bismutin;
Antitrust; Carburators, Cinchona - Peru; Copper, etc. - Chile, l942-43 (TLS
in Sp. Jose Macias Contreras); Labor; Business activities of Amer.
organizations in ememy occupied countries; Banque de Paris; Mercury;
Imports; Mani fiber - Sisal; Wool - Uruguay; Sisal - Bahama; Labor -
Bolivia, etc.; Defense; Dyestuffs; Rubber; Transportation - Indo-China,
Thailand, etc. - Japanese activities
Box 6, Folder 31
1942 December and n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Importation - strategic materials - air; Contra committments and deliveries-
foreign metals and minerals; Anti-trust; Cartels; Banque de Paris; Social
insurance; Subsidies - Caribbean; Intelligence Report - British Ministry of
Economic Warfare -German -Europe Far East; Inflation and profiteering
Mexico; Flotation of joint Angle-American loans in Latin America; War
Economics and Armament Office of German High Command; Webb-Pomerene;
Quinine; Commodity agreements; Bolivian labor; Labor - Brazil; Bolivia (to
1944); Labor - Ecuador; Economic warfare; electricaL; Fats oils; Inflation;
Labor -Rubber; Mexican Mercury; -efina; Methane Steam Ammonia Plants to
Russia; chemical industry - Mexico; British chart - administrative war
Cabinet
Box 6, Folder 32
1942 December and n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Importation - strategic materials - air; Contra committments and deliveries-
foreign metals and minerals; Anti-trust; Cartels; Banque de Paris; Social
insurance; Subsidies - Caribbean; Intelligence Report - British Ministry of
Economic Warfare -German -Europe Far East; Inflation and profiteering
Mexico; Flotation of joint Angle-American loans in Latin America; War
Economics and Armament Office of German High Command; Webb-Pomerene;
Quinine; Commodity agreements; Bolivian labor; Lsabor - Brazil; Bolivia (to
1944) Labor - Ecuador; Economic warfare. electricaL; Fats oils; Inflation;
Labor -Rubber; Mexican Mercury; -efina; Methane Steam Ammonia Plants to
Russia; chemical industry - Mexico; British chart - administrative war
Cabinet
Box 6, Folder 33
l943 January
Scope and Content Note
Fats and oils; Siemens and Halske, A.G.; Bolivia - labor; Kuhlmann;
Inflation - Chile; Peru - economic developments; BEW program; British
blockade; German - industrial offensive; Italy - food situation; Quinine;
BEW Organizational Handbook.
Box 6, Folder 34
1943 February
Scope and Content Note
Bolivian Labor; Mexico - economic and financial; American business activities
in Asian countries; Inflation -Venezuela; Inter-nation economic issues; Food
in Russia; Mexican labor; Rubber; Lend-Lease; North African Phosphate
cartel; Mexican chick pea; Colombia rubber; Latin America - Axis alien
property disposal; Bolivia - mining and raw materials; Fascist economic
bankruptcy - Italy; BEW - Departmemt of State; Taxes; Mica.
Box 6, Folder 35
1943 March
Scope and Content Note
Commodity Credit Corp. - Mexico; BEW and Commerce Department; Reoccupied -
food - Italy; Bolivia; BEW - Office of Imports; Essential industries - soda;
strategic materials - Colombia - platinun, cinchon rubber; CivilIan money
income; Peru; Mexico - mini Mexican development; Japan's war economy.
Box 7, Folder 36
1943 April
Scope and Content Note
Reoccupied areas; Coffee imports: Brazilian labor clauses; FEA purchase
arrangements; Bolivian Development Corp.; Uruguayan industry and War ; Labor
conditions, military highway - Guatemala; Bolivian commerce and industries;
inflation - western South America; Axis fuel injection; Foreign Subsidy
Company -preliminary report (TLS Ralph W. Bettelheim); File Dollar balances
-Mexico; International Telephone Telegraph; Cartels - Pirelli (TLS William
T. Stone); Bolivia - tin, tungsten, food, labor, etc. American Ship Owners -
just compensation; Latin America - aid to U.S. War effort; Export - Great
Britain to Peru; Inflation - Chile; U.S. economic warfare; China - commodity
stockpile - air transport.
Box 7, Folder 37
1943 May
Scope and Content Note
Water carriers - Transportation service; India speculation; Latin iimerica
currents; Drugs chemicals; Kuhlmann; Laval's Bank; South African economy -
gold; Rubber; Union of South Africa; Defense Supplies Corp. - India;
international Tin Cartel; Bolivia - loan from Argentine bankers; Mexican
binder twine; Farben - synthetic nitrate; Equador -government stability;
Cartels.
Box 7, Folder 38
l943 June
Scope and Content Note
Procurement and Developnent - Foreign; Chemicals and Drugs; Airplanes;
Moscow Dateline and Mother Russia Kuhlmann - chart; Bolivia - tungsten tax;
Bosch - fuel injection; Gold - South Africa; Cartels - German; Mexico;
Alcohol - Canada; European Dyestuff Cartel - charts; Cartels; subsidies;
Balanced distribution; Mercury Cartel
Box 7, Folder 39
1943 July
Scope and Content Note
Bolivia; France; Pyrethrum; Commodities available for air transport - chart;
French Dyestuff Industry - Kuhlmann; economic warfare revisions; Inflation
Chile; Liberian palm oil; Peru - metals mineral agreement; Britain - wool;
Mica; BEW weekly report Cuba - contracts; Commodity Agreements Prospectus;
tea - purchase procedure; Black List - Philip's subsidiaries; Webb-Pomerene;
Quinine - Axis inventory; Mexican chemical properties - Alien Property
seizure; Tin - Netherlands Indies; Patents; Ships compensation for.
Box 7, Folder 40
l943 August
Scope and Content Note
Foreign projects; Nicaraguan rice; Britain - toward post-war monopoly;
Reoccupied areas; Subsidies - foodstuffs (T.L.S. A.N. Fischel, Richard
Quinilain, Edwin J. Kuh, T.R. Merryweather), fats and oils, misc.
commodities, negotiations reports, deliveries of commodities preclusive
operations shipment, rubber (textile div.), fibers; Peru -mine labor;
industrial diamonds; Imports; Stockpiles; Farben; Bolivia; Colombian
replacement negotiations.
Box 8, Folder 41
1943 September 1-15
Scope and Content Note
Canadian nickel; Pomeranz affair - Bolivian labor; Cartels - Latin American
subcommittee; Merchant shipping - U.S.; Cattle hides - program; Quebrache
industry Joint Anglo-American-Canadian Mission on Hides & Leather to
Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay; Japan - Naruo aircraft factory and
airfield.
Box 8, Folder 42
1943 September 15-20
Scope and Content Note
Strategic and critical materials - Agreements U.S. and foreign countries;
White Paper Policy; Frankfurt, Ger. - industry, transportation, power and
defense; European Iron and Steel Cartel - activities in South America;
Intercoastal shipping.
Box 8, Folder 43
1943 September 21- n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Pirelli Co.; Synthetic rubber - Germany; International regulation of primary
products; Bolivia; Nitrogen plant - Poland; U.S. Commercial Co. - foreign
purchase, development and activities; Loss to Axis of European areas -
economic consequences; White Paper Policy; International Investment Agency;
Wartime Liquid Accumulations; Lend-lease; Colombian Progress Report;
Intercoastal shipping compensation; Industrial diamonds; Commodity
agreements; Societee Generale de Belgique and African Metals Corp. Malaysia
- commodity posItion -quinine; Dry cargo vessels.
Box 8, Folder 44
1943 October 5-15
Scope and Content Note
Cartels; Multilateral tariff; Diamonds; International Commodity State
Trading; white Paper; International cartels; International Commercial Policy
Organization; Taxes.
Box 8, Folder 45
1943 October 16-n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Mexican labor; Cellophane - Europe; Coffee - commodity control; International
Commodity Policy; Control and Procurement Agencies; Pyrethorum, etc.
-Brazil; International Cartels; Foreign trade - post-war; Optical glass -
anti-trust; Taxes - social security; Fats and oils; Rubber.
Box 9, Folder 46
1943 November-December
Scope and Content Note
Nitric acid - France; N.V. Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken; Brazil - mica; Kalle
and Co., A.G.; Belgian Congo - Pyrethrum; FEA & State Department;
Stockpiles; U.S. Commercial Co.; Commodity agreements; Strategic and
Critical Materials; Foreign procurement financing; industrial diamonds.
Box 9, Folder 47
1943, n.d.
Physical Description: (some pen and pencil notea by Kreps ?)
Scope and Content Note
Cartels, German and other; Economic Reconstruction and Reconversion; Black
Mica; Quinine - Ecuador; Anderson-Clayton; Colombia; Shipping - hull;
Antitrust - rubber; Civilian Economy; Relation with Europe; Reports on
Argentina, Belgian Congo, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, India, 1942-3, Mexico,
Peru, South Africa; Development Corporations (Inter-American) -international
investment and development - Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador (TLS Henry A.
Wallace), Honduras, Mexico, SHADA. - Haiti
Box 9, Folder 48
1943, n.d.
Physical Description: (some pen and pencil notea by Kreps ?)
Scope and Content Note
Cartels, German and other; Economic Reconstruction and Reconversion; Black
Mica; Quinine - Ecuador; Anderson-Clayton; Colombia; Shipping - hull;
Antitrust - rubber; Civilian Economy; Relation with Europe; Reports on
Argentina, Belgian Congo, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, India, 1942-3, Mexico,
Peru, South Africa; Development Corporations (Inter-American) -international
investment and development - Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador (TLS Henry A.
Wallace), Honduras, Mexico, SHADA. - Haiti
Box 9, Folder 49
1943, n.d.
Physical Description: (some pen and pencil notea by Kreps ?)
Scope and Content Note
Cartels, German and other; Economic Reconstruction and Reconversion; Black
Mica; Quinine - Ecuador; Anderson-Clayton; Colombia; Shipping - hull;
Antitrust - rubber; Civilian Economy; Relation with Europe; Reports on
Argentina, Belgian Congo, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, India, 1942-3, Mexico,
Peru, South Africa; Development Corporations (Inter-American) -international
investment and development - Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador (TLS Henry A.
Wallace), Honduras, Mexico, SHADA. - Haiti
Box 9, Folder 50
1944 January 1-15
Scope and Content Note
Labor standards - foreign procurement; Carburetors - Axis; banque de
l'Indochine; Bondix - axis aircraft starters; Surplus property; Volume of
money and price level.
Box 10, Folder 51
1944 January 18-n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Patents; Bismuts - Anti-trust; Combined Raw Materials Board; Hochschild case;
Postwar plans - United Nations; Corporate profits; Magnesite cartel
Industrial alcohol.
Box 10, Folder 52
l944 February
Scope and Content Note
Commercial Policy - postwar agreements; Military Government - Italy;
-Development Corporations; Phosphate - cartel monopoly; Foreign procurement
development; Industrial diamonds; Postwar Office of Demobiization;
industrialists - 1939 Dusseldorf Conference; Rubber.
Box 10, Folder 53
1944 March
Scope and Content Note
Cartel Comm. - Industrial diamonds; Trading with the enemy; Osram G.M.B.H.,
Cartel Kommanditgesellschaft; International Tin Cartel; (Memo to Jim Baker);
Cartels; Japanese Trading Companies in U.S.; Phosphate; Profiteering.
Box 10, Folder 54
1944 April 1-20
Scope and Content Note
SAIAC; Banque de l'Indochine; International Commodity Policy; Cartels - Latin
America; Cartel Industrial diamonds; Nersk Hydro and I.G. Farben; Potassium;
Patents - Ericsson (TLS Leonard Dorn Industrial diamonds; Surplus Property;
Postwar economic policy; IT & T.
Box 10, Folder 55
1944 April 7
Scope and Content Note
Universal Oil Products Co. & Japan Gasoline Co.
Box 10, Folder 56
1944 April 21-n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Optical glass - Zeiss; Tin; Phosphate industry; Consent decrees, U.S.
monetary control - German circumvention; Carbon black; Africa (includes
other material - misc., India, Brazil).
Box 10, Folder 57
1944 May
Scope and Content Note
Expert Associations and Sherman Act; N.V. Philips; Hochschild; I.G. Farben
& post-war; ~Electronic equipment; Banque Francaise et Italienne Pour
l'Amerique du Sud; Asbestos - German barter & financial activities in
U.S.; Surplus property; Bolivia; Potash; U.S. connections of Axis concerns;
Potash (TLS Homer Jornes); Diamonds.
Box 10, Folder 58
1944 June
Scope and Content Note
German lamp industry - postwar; Siemen-Reiniger-Werke; A.G. in Latin
America; I.G. Farben industrie Dynamit-Aktien-Gesellschaft; Industrial
diamonds; International Cartels (TLS Dean Acheson); Samuel Schweier; Swedish
banks - manufacturing interests; Iron and steel - Ubbelohde; Executive Com.
on Economic Foreign Policy; Patents tin; Business machines, etc. - Germany
econczny.
Box 10, Folder 59
1944 July 12-14
Scope and Content Note
Societe General - Belgian Congo; Phosphate - Export violations; Unilever -
fats and oils; Cartels German.
Box 11, Folder 60
1944 July 17-n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Cartels - British foreign trade policy; Patents Bayer Products; Wood pulp
for Sweden; Nestle - General Milk Cartel; Cartels - British, international
(South American), cocoa; Dyestuffs; Cartels; Du Pont - anti-trust; N.V.
Philips; Chrysler; Cashew nut shell oil; Iron & Steel industry; Enemy
Europe organization.
Box 11, Folder 61
1944 August-September
Scope and Content Note
Industrial diamonds; Suisse pour Valeurs Metaux Pirelli; Chromite
Automobiles; I.G. Farben; Sieve -furnaces; Societe General; National
Product; Argentina - Defense Supply Corporation, living conditions, import
& export, political platform, production foodstuffs, sulphur, facsist
propoganda & organization, labor; Aircraft manufacture & service;
Industrial diamonds; German firms' American connections; Gyroscope; IT &
T; Cocoa - Africa; Philips Company; Proclaimed & statutory lists; Iron
& Steel - German cartels; Webb-Pomerene - export trade.
Box 11, Folder 62
1944 October
Scope and Content Note
FEA director - Conf. Bolivian Uranian Tungsten Mine; Trademark; Patents; SKF
- bearings; Surplus War Property.
Box 12, Folder 63
1944 October
Scope and Content Note
German Economic Warfare; Inflation - Greece; Surplus property disposal;
Property of U.S. - Austrian A.B. Svenska Mullagerfabriken (SKF)
Box 12, Folder 64
1944 November-December
Scope and Content Note
SKF; World Week - Russia; Electrical; Elektroholm; A.B.; Rayon; Surplus
property disposal; German industrialists - plans for underground activity;
Profiteering; Cartels & National Security; International Commodity
Agreements; Webb-Pomerene; Industrial Diamonds; Shipping.
Box 12, Folder 65
1944 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Air Transport Policy - International; Canada, Royal Bank cf; Cartels -
international airline pools general; Copper - postwar Europe; Drugs -
Patents; FEA blockade of Germany; Nicaro nickel in Cuba, programs; Free
Enterprise and Government; Merchant Marine; Patents - science &
monopoly; Railroads -anti-trust; Steel: Sulpher & sulphuric acid;
Titanium.
Box 12, Folder 66
1944 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Air Transport Policy - International; Canada, Royal Bank cf; Cartels -
international airline pools general; Copper - postwar Europe; Drugs -
Patents; FEA blockade of Germany; Nicaro nickel in Cuba, programs; Free
Enterprise and Government; Merchant Marine; Patents - science &
monopoly; Railroads -anti-trust; Steel: Sulpher & sulphuric acid;
Titanium.
Box 12, Folder 67
1944 January-February
Scope and Content Note
Voorhis Bill, H.R., 97 - anti-trust; Profiteering - Littell; Public
Education bill s. 181; Public Health Service Act amendment s. 191;
Phosphate; Cartel memo - Convention on Restrictive Trade Practices; Patents;
Electrical; Industrial Diamonds; Colombia Valley Authority bill s. 460;
Postwar stockpiles; Cartels; Missouri Valley Authority a. 555; Fair
Employment Practices bill H.R. 2232; Axel Wenner - Gren's interests;
Electrical.
Box 13, Folder 68
1944 March
Scope and Content Note
Rubber - synthetic & natural; Sulphur; Government Corporations; Cartels -
French, Safehaven report; Patents - bill H.R. 2612; Farben; Aircraft
Surplus- rental for commercial use; Cartels - restrictive governmental
agreements & arrangements on manufactured products; Chemicals, Drugs
& Pharmaceuticals; Economic conditions; Postwar Trade - U.S. &
U.S.S.R.
Box 13, Folder 69
1945 April
Scope and Content Note
Societe Generale; IT& T - interests in German Electrical. I.G. Farben
industrie, A.G. - guide for investigation; Taxation; Machine tools.
Box 13, Folder 70
1945 May-June
Scope and Content Note
Tin - Bolivia; Sweden -Wallenberg's control of economy; IT & T; Canada;
Stockpiling; Electrical; Aviation gasoline; Chemicals, etc.; International
Trade Tribunal; Southern U.S. - health; Transportation - antitrust; Cartels
- plastic - German patents; Iron & Steel - war plants disposal (T.
letter stamped Joseph C. Mahoney); Kilgore Corn. - subcommittee on war
mobilization; External Security Program (regarding Farben); Spain, Bank of;
War Productic: WPB index.
Box 13, Folder 71
1945 July-Decenber
Scope and Content Note
Inflation & Deflation; IT & T; Selected Subcommittee Docs. - index;
bill a. 1297 for National Science Foundation; Removing Wartime Economic
Controls - international aspects; Thomas Jefferson (inscribed by author,
George Fort Milton); A New Economic Order; Patents; Borax; Chemicals, etc.;
Tariff reduction; Socialized Medicine; The Hotel Industry; Drugs &
Pharmaceuticals; Control of I.G. Farben - Military Government. of Germany;
Canada & International Cartels; Labor - take-home pay; Reconversion;
Webb-Pomerene (TLS Edward S. Mason).
Box 13, Folder 72
1945 n.d.-1946 February
Scope and Content Note
Cartels - & enemy property; China Trade; Electrical; Industrialization of
South; Machine Tools surplus; Stockpiling; Webb-Pomerene (TLS Morris
Rosenthal, Fritz Machlup); Patents; Water & Power California; Labor -
wages; Standards of Living; Cartel control; Bendix Aviation - Patents,
etc.
Box 13, Folder 73
1946 March-n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Webb-Pomerene; Nationalists - American Action Company clips; Electrical
& Glass; "The Commununist in Labor Relations Today;" Coal - anti-trust;
Nickel; International Communications Merger; Anti-trust. - Pacific Coast -
European Conf. - Maritime Commission; USSR; Monopoly & Foreign U.S.
Communication; Soil Conservation; Bullion & Gold-Silver Ratio; Canada
& U.S.; Consumer education; International ~Trade Organization; Labor -
Management; International Trade Disputes - arbitration; Minimum Wage; U.S.
Prices v Soviet Bargains.
Box 14, Folder 74
1947
Scope and Content Note
Unconditional Most-Favored-Nation Policy; Trends of Corporate Mergers &
Acquisitions; California Farm Reporter; Rent Control; Cartels & Combines
in Occupied Areas; Fire Equipment; Military Tribunals Case No. 6. -
Nuremberg War Crimes case against I.G. Farben officials; Agriculture -
Schultz' analysis & policy proposals; Medical Care; U.S. Foreign Policy
- Far East; Business standards; Reconstruction of Europe; International
Cartels; National Debt.
Box 14, Folder 75
1948
Scope and Content Note
German decartelization - Military Government; Bosch Combine; United Nations
principles & Labor; Price fixing - optical; Standard Oil of California -
antitrust; Survey of Consumer Finances; Cartel - International Electrical
Equipment; Canada's Natural Resources; Pipe - anti-trust; Nickel -
anti-trust; United States Lines et al - anti-trust; Cable -anti-trust;
Basing points - steel; Power Irrigation & Flood Control Projects;
World's Food; European Recovery & Free Labor; International Business
Organization - postwar trends.
Box 14, Folder 76
1949
Scope and Content Note
Trupp - Military Tribunal Nuremberg Case No. 10 Property confiscation;
Workers' Buying Power; Conservation - forests; Corporate Profits; Risk
Capital Germany - Decartelization & deconcentration; Government
subsidies; Optical - anti-trust; Conservation & Utilization of
Resources; Medical Economics; Socialists in America.
Box 14, Folder 77
l950
Physical Description: capital formation.
Scope and Content Note
Taft-Hartley; Methodism's Pink Fringe?; Income payments vs. Price supports;
Prevent World War III; James Stewart (John Earl Ferguson) - Harry Bridges
and Communism; Communism; Big Business; Economic Progress- Primary Products;
Optical - anti-trust; Korea, etc & Soviet policy; Tin-Pan Alley
monopoly; Business
Box 15, Folder 78
1951-1952
Scope and Content Note
Wage stabilization & Inflation; Price control rationing of meat; Market
explanaion under mobilization; Productive capacity, use of; Peace Offensive
-investments; Inventories - Key Business Problem -Budget Cutting; Communism
vs. Democracy In Near East; Lecture outlines - Credit Controls, Inflation,
International Political situation & effects on U.S.; Gold in Modern
Economy; Du Pont - "The Story ox' Research; European Recovery Program -
Commodity Report; Resale Price Maintenance.
Box 15, Folder 79
1953
Scope and Content Note
Restrictive Business Practices; [80] Legal sources for study of Anti-trust
laws; Bibliographies - Legal & economic concepts, Foreign Trade,
Administration & Enforcement; Standard Oil of New Jersey; Basic Miners
Resources.
Box 15, Folder 80
1953
Scope and Content Note
Restrictive Business Practices; [80] Legal sources for study of Anti-trust
laws; Bibliographies - Legal & economic concepts, Foreign Trade,
Administration & Enforcement; Standard Oil of New Jersey; Basic Miners
Resources.
Box 15, Folder 81
1954-1962
Scope and Content Note
Government competition;_Anti-trust Bulletin Electrical anti-trust;
Cellophane Anti-trust Case; Punched Lard Accounting - MBA; Depletion - oil
& gas wells; Honey Creation; Credit Expansion & Interest Rates; Big
Corporation - where its money goes; Tensions; Percentage Depletion; Pooled
Money Investment; Pacific Finance Corp.; Railway Age; U.S. Steel Quarterly,
The Humble Way; John Deere; Economic forecast; Prudential Insurance
Box 15, Folder 82
n.d. (includes fragment.)
Scope and Content Note
American-Soviet Relations; Axel Werner-Gren; German cartels - charts,
decision, analysis; Rubber; French Africa - economic aid; Government aid;
Optical; Belgium -economic development; Conservat1on; Glass; Milk; Dollar;
Soil; Standardization - testing materials; Lost Monopolies; American
Shipping; Pacific Northwest Rayon Industry; Dangers of American Fascism;
Dyestuffs
Box 16, Folder 83
Cartels- 11921-1961
Scope and Content Note
List of International Cartels in 1939 (1944), Outline of Proposed
International Trade Organization (n.d.), U.S. Government Loans to Private
Corps, involved in Restrictive Trade Practices in International Trade
(n.d.); List of Cartel Memoranda (1944); Germany -re: book about Farben
(1946), Germany & Enlarged Dye Cartel (1932, s. by Sydney B. Redecker),
Use of Cartels in Heavy Industry (1943); O'Mahoney Bill (1945); Cartel
clips. etc. (1944 & n.d.) & memo re: Combined Boards (1944) &
Cartel memo 107 (19145); Dynamics of German Cartels & Patents (n.d.)
Box 16, Folder 84
Cartels - 21921-1961
Scope and Content Note
Dyes & Dyestuffs - British report (1921); Outline for Cartel Study -
Possible contents of hearings on Concentration, Control & Cartelization
of U.S. Copper Industry (1935-45); mostly general atudies &
correspondence.
Box 16, Folder 85
Cartels - 31921-1961
Scope and Content Note
Brazilian Industry & the War, Moroccan Groupements International
Commodity Organization, International Cartel Policy, Agreements,
Registration & Control, Bolivia Gustaf Thain, Norwegian law, Britain,
FEA policy (1939-1414); Webb-Pomerene (1935); foreign Trade Work (1938);
Cartels & Business Crisis (1931); Cartelization of England (n. d.);
German Cartel Policy (1933), Maps (1938).
Box 16, Folder 86
Cartels - 4 1921-1961
Scope and Content Note
Legal Position of --- in Europe (l938); Analysis of Collective Monopolies in
Europe (1935); Modern Industrial Organization (n.d.); International Cartels
(n.d.); Locations & types (1931); German Cartel Problems (n.d.); Cartel
system - Its Future (n.d.); Significance For American Business (1944);
-----Postwar World (1943); pamphlets (l944, 1945); Controlling World Trade
(1947); Electrical Equipment Anti-trust Cases (1961); Combines Investigation
Act (1961).
Box 16, Folder 87
Magnesium in the Pacific Northwest ca. 1938-l947
Physical Description: (Found in one special folder, order maintained-). Reports, surveys,
legal proceedings, etc. re: magnesium industry - sources, uses,
etc.
Box 16, Folder 88
Magnesium in the Pacific Northwest ca. 1938-l947
Physical Description: (Found in one special folder, order maintained-). Reports, surveys,
legal proceedings, etc. re: magnesium industry - sources, uses,
etc.
