Department of Agriculture: Appropriations for 1962: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session Subcommittee on Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations Jamie L. Whitten, Mississippi, Chairman William H. Natcher, Kentucky H. Carl Andersen, Minnesota Alfred E. Santangelo, New York Walt Horan, Washington John M. Slack, Jr., West Virginia Robert H. Michel, Illinois Ross P. Pope, Staff Assistant to the Subcommittee, Volume 2, Parts 2-3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961 |
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... high of 198,290,000 bushels on December 10 , 1959. The large hedging sales in soybean futures at the height of the marketing season were readily absorbed by speculative purchases at prices well above the Government loan level , and the ...
... high of 198,290,000 bushels on December 10 , 1959. The large hedging sales in soybean futures at the height of the marketing season were readily absorbed by speculative purchases at prices well above the Government loan level , and the ...
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... high meat output goals of the 7 - year plan ( 1959-65 ) . The Soviet Union is currently the world's second largest meat producer , with a red - meat output about half that of the United States It is estimated that by 1965 Soviet ...
... high meat output goals of the 7 - year plan ( 1959-65 ) . The Soviet Union is currently the world's second largest meat producer , with a red - meat output about half that of the United States It is estimated that by 1965 Soviet ...
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... high- lighted the prevalence of agricultural protectionism in many countries around the world and may be influential in the adoption of less restrictive agricultural policies in the future . In efforts to make sure that policies and ...
... high- lighted the prevalence of agricultural protectionism in many countries around the world and may be influential in the adoption of less restrictive agricultural policies in the future . In efforts to make sure that policies and ...
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... high and constituted 82 percent of the total shipments . A further increase of about 40 percent is forcast for 1960 . Hides and skins exports to Japan were also at a high level in 1959 , with the United States supplying 55 percent of ...
... high and constituted 82 percent of the total shipments . A further increase of about 40 percent is forcast for 1960 . Hides and skins exports to Japan were also at a high level in 1959 , with the United States supplying 55 percent of ...
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... high level but we believe it is essential that they be expanded even further - as an outlet for our abundant and varied farm production , as a source of supply for foreign consumers , and as reinforcement of our national foreign policy ...
... high level but we believe it is essential that they be expanded even further - as an outlet for our abundant and varied farm production , as a source of supply for foreign consumers , and as reinforcement of our national foreign policy ...
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Page 390 - The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to purchase any notes and other obligations to be issued hereunder and for such purpose he is authorized to use as a public debt transaction the proceeds from the sale of any securities issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act...
Page 470 - States, for the purpose of financing the construction and operation of generating plants electric transmission and distribution lines or systems for the furnishing of electric energy to persons in rural areas who are not receiving central station service...
Page 132 - ... which may be transported on ocean vessels shall be transported on privately owned United States-flag commercial vessels, to the extent such vessels are available at fair and reasonable rates...
Page 768 - ... (1) if not treated, will impair or endanger the land, (2) materially affect the productive capacity of the land, (3) represent damage which is unusual in character and, except for wind erosion, is not the type which would recur frequently in the same area, and (4) will be so costly to rehabilitate that Federal assistance is or will be required to return the land to productive agricultural use, and for reimbursement to the appropriation to the President for "Disaster relief...
Page 395 - All redemptions, purchases, and sales by the Secretary of the Treasury of such notes or other obligations shall be treated as public debt transactions of the United States.
Page 53 - Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That the Congress of the United States welcomes the Inter-American Bar Association...
Page 463 - I am attaching to my statement and requesting that it be included in the record — a resolution adopted at our annual meeting in Houston, Tex., last fall. At this meeting, more than 500 were in attendance from every State in the West.
Page 391 - Secretary may designate any area in the United States and in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands as an emergency area if he finds (1) that there exists in such area a general need for agricultural credit which cannot be met for temporary periods of time by private, cooperative, or other responsible sources...
Page 818 - Service in conducting statistical reporting and service work, including crop and livestock estimates, statistical coordination and improvements, and marketing surveys...
Page 469 - States in the proportion which the number of their farms not then receiving central station electric service bears to the total number of farms of the United States not then receiving such service.