[317] Blumenstock Bros. v. Curtis Pub. Co., 252 U.S. 436 (1920).
[318] Williams v. Fears, 179 U.S. 270 (1900).
A contract entered into for the erection of a factory which was to be supervised and operated by the officers of a foreign corporation was held not a transaction of interstate commerce in the constitutional sense merely because of the fact that the products of the factory are largely to be sold and shipped to other factories. Diamond Glue Co. v. United States Glue Co., 187 U.S. 611, 616 (1903). In Browning v. Waycross, 233 U.S. 16 (1914), it was held that the installation of lightning rods sold by a foreign corporation was not interstate commerce, although provided for in the contract of purchase. Similarly in General Railway Signal Co. v. Virginia, 246 U.S. 500 (1918), where a foreign corporation installed signals in Virginia, bringing in materials, supplies, and machinery from without the State, the Court held that local business was involved, separate and distinct from interstate commerce, and subject to the licensing power of the State. However, in an interstate contract for the sale of a complicated ice-making plant, where it was stipulated that the parts should be shipped into the purchaser's State and the plant there assembled and tested under the supervision of an expert to be sent by the seller, it was held that services of the expert did not constitute the doing of a local business subjecting the seller to regulations of Texas concerning foreign corporations. York Mfg. Co. v. Colley, 247 U.S. 21 (1918). See also Kansas City Structural Steel Co. v. Arkansas, 269 U.S. 148 (1925).
[319] Associated Press v. United States, 326 U.S. 1 (1945).
[320] American Medical Association v. United States, 317 U.S. 519 (1943). Cf. United States v. Oregon State Medical Society, 343 U.S. 326 (1952).
[321] United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Assoc, 322 U.S. 533 (1944). The interstate character of the insurance business as today organized and carried on is stressed, although its intrastate elements are not overlooked. The Court's business is to determine in each case whether "the competing * * * State and national interests * * * can be accommodated." Ibid. 541 and 548.
[322] [Article I, § 8, cl. 18].
[323] See infra [CONGRESSIONAL REGULATIONS OF PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS].
[324] 6 Wheat. 264, 413 (1821).
[325] 9 Wheat. 1, 195 (1824).