The Wheeler-Lea Act of 1938 empowered the Federal Trade Commission to
A) deal with anticompetitive mergers that occurred as a result of one company acquiring the physical assets of another company.
B) deal with false and deceptive advertising.
C) deal with unfair methods of competition and to determine which actions taken by businesses were too aggressive.
D) regulate the trucking and railroad industries.
E) decrease the failure rate of small businesses by protecting them from competition from large and growing chain stores.
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