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Show TRADING STAMP INDUSTRY. The magnitude of the trading stamp business in the United States was revealed by an injunction granted in the United States circuit court in Chicago by Judge Kohlsaat to a concern which in six years is said to have built up a trade of over five million dollars annually in that field. Trading stamps as an aid to modern merchandising mer-chandising made its appearance less than ten years ago but the sums involved are said to aggregate nearly $15,000,000 a year. The injunction injunc-tion was the trading stamp's first appearance in a federal court. It was due to attempts made by a former manager for the Sperry i Hutchinson company to supplant "green" stamps with some he called "United," in doing which the company alleged that he and his partner, part-ner, who called themselves the United States corporation, made libelous libel-ous statements and displayed unfair practices. It was a lively war for a time. The injunction was unique for that reason and served to stop the defendants "from furnishing any trading stamps or similar simi-lar devices to any such subscribers during the term of their contracts with complainant, and from purchasing or otherwise procuring from complainant's subscribers any of complainant's trading stamps in violation of the contracts of said subscribers, and from buying, selling, sell-ing, exchanging or otherwise disposing of the trading stamps of complainant com-plainant and from offering United stamps in exchange therefor." Attorneys At-torneys jokingly bet that1 Mrs. Kohlsaat knew more about trading stamps than the court did, even after entering his order. |
