The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Syndicates

SYNDICATES, a name given in the United States to those combinations of capitalists organized for the purpose of controlling production and raising prices. The term is also used of associations which buy a literary or artistic product outright from the author and market it to subscribers simultaneously in non-contiguous parts of the country. Perhaps the most familiar example of this is the colored Sunday Supplements which appear in different journals on the same day at points throughout the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific.