Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations, Parts 3-4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1955 - Budget |
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acreage allotment actual 1955 estimate administrative expenses agencies agricultural attachés agricultural commodities Agricultural Marketing Service amount ANDERSEN appropriation authority Average basis BEACH BERGER bins borrowers bushels BUTZ cents Chairman Commodity Credit Corporation Commodity Exchange Act commodity offices Congress contracts Cooperative corn cost cotton Cottonseed oil county committee county offices Department of Agriculture Deputy Administrator Division eggs employees estimate 1956 estimate export farm farmers Federal feed fiscal year 1954 Foreign Agricultural Service funds going grades grain handling HORAN hundredweight increase indemnities inspection June 30 loans loss MANWARING marketing quota Marketing Service MARSHALL McCONNELL ment milk million NATCHER Obligations incurred operations payments percent Personal services poultry pounds premium price support problem Public Law Puerto Rico purchase record reimbursement responsibility Secretary soybeans storage sugar Sugar Act supply surplus tion tobacco trade TRELOGAN United Unobligated balance VURSELL wheat WHITTEN
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Page 1134 - ... under section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935, as amended (7 USC 612(c)), with respect to agricultural commodities shall be subject to apportionment pursuant to this section.
Page 1366 - Corporation shall, to the maximum extent practicable consistent with the fulfillment of the Corporation's purposes and the effective and efficient conduct of its business, utilize the usual and customary channels, facilities, and arrangements of trade and commerce.
Page 1671 - September 30, 1984 shall— (1) use funds available to carry out the provisions of section 32 of the act of August 24, 1935 (7 USC 612c) which are not expended or needed to carry out such provisions to purchase (without regard to the provisions of existing law governing the expenditure of public funds) agricultural commodities and their products of the types customarily purchased under such section...
Page 1691 - That there is hereby established at the seat of Government of the United States a Department of Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 1190 - ... the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480, 83d Cong.) as amended (7 USC 1704(k)).
Page 1601 - Legal advice. — The Office of the General Counsel issues both formal and informal opinions on legal questions arising in the administration of the Department's programs; prepares or reviews administrative rules and regulations applicable to the public ; drafts proposed legislation ; prepares or interprets contracts, mortgages, leases, deeds, and similar documents; prosecutes patent applications arising out of inventions by Department employees...
Page 1325 - ... (2) The farm marketing quota for any crop of wheat shall be the actual production of the acreage planted to such crop of wheat on the farm less the farm marketing excess.
Page 1367 - This authorization provided that beginning September 1, 1954, and ending June 30, 1958, funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation shall be used to increase the consumption of fluid milk by children in nonprofit schools of highschool grade and under and in nonprofit nursery schools, child-care centers, settlement houses, summer camps, and similar nonprofit institutions devoted to the care and training of children.
Page 1366 - The Corporation is managed by a Board of Directors, subject to the general supervision and direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, who is an ex officio Director and Chairman of the Board. The Board consists of six members (in addition to the Secretary of Agriculture) who are appointed by the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Page 1204 - HOMER L. BRINKLEY, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF FARMER COOPERATIVES Mr.