OPA Bibliography, 1940-1947, Volume 1U.S. Office of Price Administration, 1946 |
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adjustments amendment American April 17 average BAKER balbriggan BESSE black market BOWLES butterfat CAREY Ceiling price established cents CHAIRMAN Chester Bowles committee commodities Congress consumer continue cotton dairy decontrol demand dollars economic equipment farm farmers figures going Government income industry inflation inflationary June 30 labor LIEBERMAN loss lumber machinery manufacturers materials maximum prices ment milk mills months Office of Price OPA's operations peacetime percent period PORTER poultry pound present Price Administration price ceilings Price Control Act price increases problem production profit question regulations relief retail sell Senator BANKHEAD Senator BARKLEY Senator Buck Senator CAPEHART Senator HICKENLOOPER Senator MCFARLAND Senator MILLIKIN Senator MITCHELL Senator MURDOCK Senator TAFT Senator TOBEY shirts shortage Stabilization statement subsidies supply taxes textile thing tion underwear VJ-day wage increases Wage Stabilization Board WASON WHITLOCK yarn zinc
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Page 489 - Congress hereby declares that it is the continuing policy and responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means consistent with its needs and obligations and other essential considerations of national policy, with the assistance and cooperation of industry, agriculture, labor, and State and local governments, to coordinate and utilize all its plans, functions, and resources for the purpose...
Page 489 - President with respect thereto; (4) to develop and recommend to the President national economic policies to foster and promote free competitive enterprise, to avoid economic fluctuations or to diminish the effects thereof, and to maintain employment, production, and purchasing power...
Page 457 - To continue the stabilization of the economy as authorized and directed by the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as amended, and the Stabilization Act of 1942, as amended...
Page 489 - ... conditions under which there will be afforded useful employment opportunities, including selfemployment, for those able, willing, and seeking to work, and to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power.
Page 489 - Government to use all practicable means consistent with its needs and obligations and other essential considerations of national policy, with the assistance and cooperation of industry, agriculture, labor, and State and local governments, to coordinate and utilize all its plans, functions, and resources for the purpose of creating and maintaining, in a manner calculated to foster and promote free competitive enterprise and the general welfare, conditions under which there will be afforded useful...
Page 463 - Mr. Chairman, with your permission, I would like to have inserted in the record at this point the...
Page 850 - The powers' granted in this section shall not be used or made to operate to compel changes in the business practices, cost practices or methods, or means or aids to distribution, established in any industry...
Page 454 - Act, as may be determined by the Director of Economic Stabilization : Provided further, That the premium price plan for copper, lead, and zinc shall be extended until June 30. 1946, on the same terms as heretofore, except that all classes of premiums shall be noncancelable unless necessary in order to make individual adjustments of income to specific mines...
Page 674 - ... part from any agricultural commodity, under regulations to be prescribed by the President, in any case where it appears that such modification is necessary to increase the production of such commodity for war purposes, or where by reason of increased labor or other costs to the producers of such agricultural commodity incurred since January 1, 1941, the maximum prices so established will not reflect such increased costs...
Page 2 - The last paragraph of section 2 (e) of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as amended by the Stabilization Extension Act of 1944, s-hall...