Guide to the Theodore John Kreps Collection,
1926-1962
JL014
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Title: Kreps, Theodore John. Collection,
Identifier/Call Number: JL014
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
6.75 Linear feet
Date: 1926-1962
Abstract: 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.
creator:
Kreps, Theodore J. (Theodore John ), b. 1897
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 |
Collection Scope and Content 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.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Theodore John Kreps to the Jackson Library of Business, 1966. Transferred to Special Collections in 1979.
Preferred Citation
Theodore John Kreps Collection. JL14. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Access
None.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Kreps, Theodore J. (Theodore John ), b. 1897
Managerial economics.
Box 1, Folder 1
1926-1929
Scope and Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents note
Social audit; Anti-trust; Wholesale Drug Industry trade practice rules; Labor; Corporations.
Box 1, Folder 4
1935
Scope and Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents note
Trade barriers; American rural refugees; Primary producers; Government investment; Consumer protection; Investment problem;
Labor
Box 3, Folder 13
l939 May-July
Scope and Contents 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 Contents note
Government subsidies (Monopoly Control Bill); Ownership; Government regulation.
Box 3, Folder 15
1939 September
Scope and Contents note
Anti-trust indictments and complaints (unfair competition, cartels, etc.).
Box 3, Folder 16
1939 October-December
Scope and Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents note
Universal Oil Products Co. & Japan Gasoline Co.
Box 10, Folder 56
1944 April 21-n.d.
Scope and Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents note
FEA director - Conf. Bolivian Uranian Tungsten Mine; Trademark; Patents; SKF - bearings; Surplus War Property.
Box 12, Folder 63
1944 October
Scope and Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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 Contents 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- 1
1921-1961
Scope and Contents 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 - 2
1921-1961
Scope and Contents 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 - 3
1921-1961
Scope and Contents 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 Contents 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.