Navy Department Appropriation Bill for 1943: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Seventy-seventh Congress, Second Session, on H. R. 6460, a Bill Making Appropriations for the Navy Department and the Naval Service for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1943, and Additional Appropriations Therefor for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1942, and for Other PurposesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1942 - 43 pages |
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... increase in retail prices of the 1942 canned and dried fruit pack is a serious set - back in the battle being fought by Office of Price Administration to maintain stability in the cost of living . We cannot afford any more such losses ...
... increase in retail prices of the 1942 canned and dried fruit pack is a serious set - back in the battle being fought by Office of Price Administration to maintain stability in the cost of living . We cannot afford any more such losses ...
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... increase if borne by the Government would be less than if it were passed along into the trade . Senator MCKELLAR . Why ? Mr. HENDERSON . Because when you increase a price of a basic commodity each person handling it , the jobber ...
... increase if borne by the Government would be less than if it were passed along into the trade . Senator MCKELLAR . Why ? Mr. HENDERSON . Because when you increase a price of a basic commodity each person handling it , the jobber ...
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... increase pressures is based on the increase in the cost of living . If we let wages go up and prices go up you are in the old familiar spiral . Senator O'MAHONEY . Do you not think by a statement such as you issued last night you ...
... increase pressures is based on the increase in the cost of living . If we let wages go up and prices go up you are in the old familiar spiral . Senator O'MAHONEY . Do you not think by a statement such as you issued last night you ...
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... increase in price without an increase in production ? While there is a technical question as to whether or not there is inflation , there is no doubt that agricultural prices have risen more than any other prices under the war effort ...
... increase in price without an increase in production ? While there is a technical question as to whether or not there is inflation , there is no doubt that agricultural prices have risen more than any other prices under the war effort ...
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... increase but the President's pronouncements and our pronouncements in establishing the March ceilings seemed to me to require an explanation to housewives to whom we had guaranteed that their prices on these things were not going up ...
... increase but the President's pronouncements and our pronouncements in establishing the March ceilings seemed to me to require an explanation to housewives to whom we had guaranteed that their prices on these things were not going up ...
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Page 130 - Congress, or both, any defense article for the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.
Page 208 - States, or who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence and accepts employment the salary or wages for which are paid from any appropriation contained in this Act shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both : Provided further, That the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for,...
Page 45 - Committee shall serve as such without compensation but shall be entitled to actual and necessary transportation, subsistence and other expenses incidental to performance of their duties.
Page 46 - I am taking the liberty of sending a copy of this letter to the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations.
Page 20 - Act of 1955" (Public Law 296— 84th Congress, Chapter 565— First Session). This act became law by approval of the President on August 9, 1955. The new law repeals the act entitled "An act to provide for a Method of Voting, in time of war, by members of the land and naval forces, absent from the place of their residence", approved September 16, 1942 (56 Statute 753) as amended.
Page 78 - Director General William S. Knudsen, Associate Director General Sidney Hillman, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox.
Page 54 - It shall be the policy of those departments and agencies of the Government dealing with wages (including the Department of Labor and its various bureaus, the War Department, the Navy Department, the War Production Board, the National Labor Relations Board...
Page 317 - Stat. 443), shall apply with respect to any individual who specifically claims such privilege. (c) No department, agency, or official exercising any functions under this act shall publish or disclose information obtained hereunder which is deemed confidential or with reference to which a request for confidential treatment is made by the person furnishing such information unless the head of such department or agency determines that the withholding thereof is contrary to the national interest.
Page 266 - ... 110 per centum of the parity price so adjusted; (2) the. market price prevailing for such commodity on October 1, 1941; (3) the market price prevailing for such commodity on December 15, 1941 ; or (4) the average price for such commodity during the period July 1, 1919, to June 30, 1929.
Page 81 - States, it is hereby ordered as follows: 1. There is hereby established in the Office for Emergency Management of the Executive Office of the President the Office of Alien Property Custodian, at the head of which shall be an Alien Property Custodian appointed by the President.