	cooper cbe asks ftc to end uisition limits cooper industries inc asked the federal trade commission to vacate a order that requires the company to get ftc approval before making certain uisitions the ftc said the order was issued as part of a settlement of ftc charges that cooper s merger with gardner denver co would lessen competion and increase concentration in the gas compressor and industrial air tool industries the ftc said the order requires that until cooper must get ftc approval before uiring companies in the natural gas compressor or hand held industrial pneumatic tool businesses reuter 
